Sage:
Sage is a grey-green resembling that of dried sage leaves. Dried sage leaves is the people who passed away, it is the color of the nature. Died people is the fix color of black and white, and the green is nature color.
Meterion:
The word cemetery is the greek word from “Koimeterion”, meaning of sleeping place. We choose greek wording because it is essential and classic, as same with the nature. After people passed away, their body will have a cozy place to sleep in peace, it is the meterion stands for in our company.
Recompose which is a Seattle-based company and the first funeral home to build a human composting facility in the country, places the body into a steel vessel that is then filled with wood chips, alfalfa and straw. Microbes enable bodies to decompose into one cubic yard of nutrient-rich soil within about a month.
Environmentally-friendly option than burial or cremation. The process does not use fossil gas like cremation, no need for the casket and cemetery resources of burial, and sequesters carbon as soil is created.
Window to look for the outside plants (grown from donation of composted dead body)
Funeral parlour, screening of the person’s favorite color during their lifetime.
The outside wall of failing leaves with sage colors give people a feeling of death.
The point of adding the side door is that: due to my research, many people are being afraid of death. Especially for the elderly people, they want to live on the earth more than other people do.
We will separate the composting room and the funeral room. The funeral room is for the families and friends of dead people to attend the funeral. When people come for the funeral, they do not have to see the composting area if they don’t want to.
The reception in composting room is for people to come to have a look for the human composting system would work and plan for where they wanna go after death.
Reception for people to ask for the information of our company and process of human composting.
A name tag with R.I.P is the main connection to those coffins and the soil. It is all belongs to one person. The process is more private and personal.
During the process of human composting, often left with one big bone which contained in the back of human body. The original process is to grind the big bone and put into the soil, not refined enough and damage the dead body.
Keep the big bones into the individual houses. small village for the person’s soul to live peacefully after death.
Reception for people to ask for the information of our company and process of human composting.
The composted soil as the most important part of the process. The soil package is the favorite color of the dead person, if that person doesn’t have a favorite color, it will be sage colored.
Directory Signage:
Standing outside in the yard, people can see it first before entering. Give a general view and information of the business.
Entrance Signage:
Signage of Composting Room, contains working hours and title of the service
Entrance Signage:
Signage of Funeral Room, contains dead people name reveals and life years
Information Signage:
Shows the location of the compost area. Placed at incline and visible from both walls.
Animal Coffin:
Pet composting coffin, triangle shaped with a black helf to hang the coffin on the wall.
Human Coffin
Human composting coffin, rounded rectangle shape can be automatically slide out when coffin is placed.
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