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Death in the City: Defining a 21st Century Paradigm for the Hospice

University/SchoolHarvard Graduate School of Design
Lead ArchitectRadu-Remus Macovei
Design Teamtechnical support: Ramon Weber, Maxime Moning, Noel Stascha
Projecthttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WU64D6fFl_LHA6XxBAoULWS_-joKmk34qX8EOcHfog4/edit?usp=sharing

An unprecedented number of recent articles in popular and health journals focus on the physicality of death and dying. The thesis seizes this moment and, in the context of Bucharest, Romania, proposes an architecture which mediates the tensions between hope and fear, health and illness, sharing and isolation, that lie at the core of the contemporary hospice. The project ties the hospice building to a physical church by activating the subterranean and street levels in small public programs (recital hall, playground etc) which pierce the upper floors of the units via pyramidal structures.