I already started my research trying to understand better how it works when someone dies in my country.
When someone dies in Italy, the corpse is generally brought in what I could translate as "ardent room", that is a room in which the family can stand around the coffin and pray. This room is called "ardent room" because they use to put a lot of candles, when the room was used. After this, generally, for religious people, there is a religiuos funeral that in most of the cases is in a christian catholic church, since it is the main religion in Italy.
After that the the corpse was usually buried into the ground but, since there is no space anymore, they started to use burial recesses, that are like walls in which the coffins are inserted.
We have also spaces called ossuaries that they began to use due to the lack of space in cemeteries. Generally there aren't so many columbariums because people prefer to scatter tha ashes than keeping them at home or in these memorial spaces.
After this first analysis of my culural background I'm going to start my research to understand and find elements that I could use in the design process.
