Changing Funeral Home Architecture

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Within the industry, there are lots of transitional elements like body disposing, perception of grief and the funeral building design. The transitional of the old way to the new way to allow for a new design of the building. The upcoming generation is more design-savy and environment friendly. The industry has slowly tradition from a product driven industry to an experience and customer friendly industry, but has not updated the facilities drastically. Some facilities have been updated to bring them to the current style of architecture, but most are still in the traditional style (see Case Studies). The changing customizable services allow the family to easy personalize the space whether through music, pictures, and decorations (Wolfelt, 2004). …show more content…
The space has to encourage community time, and family time to allow for grieving support and communication between the grieving, whether the time at or after the funeral (Wolfelt, 2004). Good design is not just about the beauty of the space but the quality of life as well. Components like personal control, responsiveness of staff, and community interactions affect the quality of life within the space (Macmillan, 2006). Personal control can be the ability to raise or lower the blinds or operate the control services like light switches or heating and cooling temperature. Responsiveness of the facility means how quickly the staff response to the users needs and requests. Community interactions allow for a communal sharing of stories, and happy or sad memories of the deceased (Ramshaw, 2010). Customized funerals allow the family to have a realization of the recently deceased to work through the stages of grief, and allow for a feeling of control over the personalization of the funeral whether through music, photos, or food (Ramshaw, 2010). By creating an environment that allows easy customization and personalization of the family and yet, still can hold its own without the customization, allows for the personalized funeral ceremony to inhabitant the space for a …show more content…
Way finding is an information system that helps inform the users of the space with enough information to “necessary to make and execute decisions along a route, [whether they are] architectural cues, linearly arranged signage, [or] floor plans” (Mandel, 2013). Wayfinding allows the user to make decisions, executed the decision and process the information needed to make the decision (Mandel, 2013). These decisions will allow the users to process plan and map the space for it to become less confusing and to orient oneself through the building. Signage, colour and architectural elements are the easiest ways of locating the right path to progress through the space. Another way to connect the user to the space is through emotional mapping. Emotional mapping allows users to map the space through their emotions to the space as they walk through. Emotional perception could come from colour, texture, smell, or sound, as long as it represents an emotion to the user that room will be part of the map (Mazuch & Rona, 2005). This emotional mapping congruent with way finding can help create an organized easy circulation through the
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