KOK FOON YI 

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Redefining Future Urban Cemeteries, creating a realm between the living and the dead

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As this cohort moves into old age and faces higher mortality rates, the absolute number of deaths will increase significantly, as will the subsequent demand for interment spaces. 

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Due to the Rapid urbanization, the contradiction between the shortage of urban land resources and the large demand for cemeteries has not been resolved. The land scarcity issues had leads to Sacrifice of 100-year-old reserved forest and protected land for cemetery. 

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Thus, it is important for us to redefine the future urban cemeteries to ensure their sustainability for future generations. Design a hybrid funerary realm for the living and the dead to serve an intertwined nature of both dimensions of life. Implementing new cemetery design into our neighborhoods, considering the quality of space and psychological aspects for emotional resonance.

 

Not only meeting the basic functional requirements as a cemetery, but allowing the needs in physical, psychological & behavioral characteristics. Provide people a platform to tell their stories and memorialize their history and roots.

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“ Cemeteries shouldn’t be seen as a waste of space, but as a part of our history & culture. They provide us with an important sense of place and create a necessary connection with our culture and who we are as a people. In losing them, we lose little bits of ourselves.”