Departing's Party

This project assists the Australian desire to die at home. 

Integrating faith, ritual, palliative care, the civic and multigenerational living, this project reconsiders the family home and the procedures surrounding death. To Past generations, death was familiar, now it is ‘out of sight and shrouded in mystery.

An analysis of Australia’s social perception of death, through education, religion, and existing mechanisms, allows this proposition to allocate itself.

What if a housing typology permitting the event, the ritual, the civic, and a dignified exit?

A place where we could live and die together, across generations, faiths, and backgrounds.

A place capable of a ceremony, whilst also a family home.

Our understanding of suburbia and entitlement is challenged. We are no longer joined by a paling fence but instead a courtyard, a hallway, or a veranda. We are reconnected across generations, The young gain access to history, the old gain access to care, the removal of isolation and exclusion takes place.

Through an unfamiliar lens, the lens of death; a new living is unveiled.