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* A Line Gone Awry
/ This thesis offers a cultural critique of our modern obsession with speed, as exemplified in the bizarre emergence of funeral drive-thrus.
To highlight the unsettling symptom of our fast-paced culture, the thesis explores specifically how the process of grief is packaged into a 3 minute ride in the case of Paradise Funeral Chapel, Saginaw, Michigan.
Through introducing a series of sensorial pavillions to an otherwise indifferent path of travel , the design proposal intends to distrupt and elongate the passage by relentlessly bringing us out of our subconcious habit of acceleration.
From Pool of Still Water (touch) to Altar of Wine (taste), the six pavillions work from the crossroads between the prosaic (the car) and the sacred (funeral ritual), to altogether explore a possibility of automobile sublime and make space for a slower goodbye.