Seattle-based architect [Katrina Spade], originally from New England, has a vision that could radically reshape not just the death-care industry but the way we think about death itself.
She calls her plan the Urban Death Project, and it proposes a middle road between burial and cremation: compost. [...]
The centerpiece of the idea is an approximately three-story-high building in an urban center where people could bring their dead.
— thestranger.com
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I personally lilked the system from Soylent Green, but the Logan's Run Carousel concept is a close second with this running a very distant null-place. A dead body composter? We would have to deny our humanity to make something like this acceptable...
total rip off of a Zoroastrian 'tower of silence'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakhma
Agreed, Evan.
I do like that drawing though...
This may be neither here nor there (especially in the semi-theoretical nature of the project), but this article calls her an architect, and the project site claims she has a Masters of Architecture from UMass Amherst. UMass Amherst does not have a Masters of Architecture program. The school does, however, have a Masters in Landscape Architecture, which may be a small distinction to some, but it's more than a bit misleading...
Apologies. Did not do due diligence in looking that up from work. There most definitely is an M.Arch program there.
This may be neither here nor there (especially in the semi-theoretical nature of the project), but this article calls her an architect
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I like the idea of composting the dead, frees up lots of valuable real estate for development. You'd think the AIA would get behind something like this.
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