The living dead : a design for a cemetery in New Orleans

Though this thesis began as an investigation of how a "kit-of-parts" might be conceived and applied to the malting of an urban cemetery, the actual design process for the cemetery required jettisoning the kit-of-paids approach in favor of a more responsive and unique design methodology. This second approach turned out to be the more appropriate means of forming a design solution for the site hounded by Royal Street, Piety Street, Desire Street, and Chartres Street and a similar design methodology would likely have been deployed at the other two sites as well. In the end, making explicit and implicit references to New Orleans' funereal and cultural heritages in the design for the cemetery hopefully revealed a poetic, enduring and functional vision of a Cemetery in an urban setting that is also a gathering Place for the living inextricably United to its surroundings.