Print Email Facebook Twitter The Banality of Death Title The Banality of Death: Interweaving territories of life and death at the outskirts of Mashhad Author Verdoes, Jesse (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Sanaan Bensi, N. (mentor) Schoonderbeek, M.G.H. (mentor) Koskamp, G. (mentor) Geerts, F. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2021-07-09 Abstract The Banality of Death addresses the way the city of Mashhad deals with death. It is an attempt to architecturally translate and expose the tensions that arise between traditional values and the modern transformation of the burial process by the design of three extended rest-stops along the Bagcheh Highway that act as mediators with the goal of interweaving the territories of the dead and living. They are part of the burial ritual as well as they accommodate places for rest and leisure. The design includes a playscape at a former burial place of a persecuted minority in Mashhad where people are playfully confronted with death and its architecture (1), an ablution facility in between two highways that functions as the starting point of the burial ritual and acts as a transfer point for a mobility system, taking visitors that are not necessarily related to the burial ritual around the territory (2) and a watchtower situated on/in a forgotten site of heritage where formerly pilgrims encountered their first view towards the golden dome of the Imam Reza Shrine at the center of Mashhad, and has a role in the completion of the mourning process. Subject DeathTerritoriesBorder ConditionsInterweavingRitualInfrastructure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:11f4790b-279d-4e1f-9d28-6babc857e394 Coordinates 36.103916 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Jesse Verdoes Files PDF Research_Design_booklet_T ... erdoes.pdf 135.03 MB PDF P5_Presentation_The_Banal ... erdoes.pdf 30.01 MB PDF Posters_The_Banality_Of_D ... does_s.pdf 42.79 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:11f4790b-279d-4e1f-9d28-6babc857e394/datastream/OBJ2/view