- What space is occupied by the dead and mourners in Hong Kong?
- What places, buildings and infrastructures are there?
- How are these spaces arranged?
- What do they look like? What is typical of them?
- What are their functions?
Hung Hom funeral district
Funeral Parlours – examples:
- Grand Peace Funeral Parlour
- Universal Funeral Parlour
Private funeral undertakers
Coffin shops
Flower shops
Manufacturers of paper objects (replicas)
Others
Greater city area
Cemeteries – worth visiting:
- Aberdeen (back of HK island)
- Parsee (central, near Happy Valley recreation ground)
- Pok Fu Lam (side of HK island, Sandy Bay)
- Tseung Kwan O (Kowloon)
- Tsuen Wan
- Wo Hop Shek (New Territories)
Crematoria, columbaria & gardens of remembrance – innovative:
- Wo Hop Shek Kiu Tau Road (opened 2012, 43’700 niches, designed by architects)
http://2014.venicebiennale.hk/diamond-hill-columbarium-crematorium/ - Diamond Hill (opened 2010, designed by architects, shown at Venice Biennale 2014)
Coffin Repositories
Chinese dying abroad are usually shipped back home from overseas. They then stay at the Hong Kong coffin home, before being sent to their home town:
- Tung Wah Coffin Home, Sandy Bay (next to Pok Fu Lam cemetery)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_Wah_Coffin_Home
Ancestral altars in private homes
Are set up for dead relatives to worship them.
Visions for the future
Tin Shun But, «Columbarium at Sea»:
http://www.archdaily.com/62362/columbarium-at-sea-tin-shun-but/
Bread Studio, «Floating Eternity»:
http://www.breadstudio.com/project%20index/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html