This prototypical funeral home and disposition site argues for the presence of ceremony and death in daily urban life and in the domestic realm. This space is designed to accommodate the disposition of your substance: the tangible, virtual, and immaterial. Inhabiting an urban hanok, this project hosts an amalgam of the sites for ceremony and remains transmutation, adopting new technologies that do away with the demands on area once required by the cemetery, and opening up the channels between the virtual and the non-virtual, allowing remembrance to travel fluidly between domains. This hanok is equipped with an alkaline hydrolysis fluid cremation system and the digital file transfer capacity to consolidate your virtual afterlife into a cloud-based archive. The funerals that these technologies enable are multi-scalar, multi-sited, and activate across time frames. 


Liquid cremation is an ecological method of remains disposition that produces no emissions. Over approximately 3 hours, it dissolves your body into a 300 liter alkaline bath at a constant temperature just above 300 degrees Fahrenheit. It is an accelerated version of the natural decomposition of the body in the earth and as a funeral technology, it is already in use in cities the world over. This technology allows you to cultivate a memorial garden that transforms your loved one's remains into a living tribute.