Recompose | Seattle is the first facility in the world to provide a sustainable option for after‑death care. Designed in collaboration with founder and CEO Katrina Spade, the new facility offers a service called “natural organic reduction” which converts human remains into soil, helping nourish new life after death.
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Recompose | Seattle
Seattle, Washington
Rio House
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vermont Cabin
Stowe, Vermont
Team
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Nick Ladd
Bryan Samuel
Publications
2023
“Life after death.” Design Indaba, 20 Feb. 2023. Web.
Maskin, Alan, Blair Payson and Bryan Samuel. “Someday, You’re Going to Die.” Vorkurs: Ritual, Apr. 2023, 52-65. Print
2022
Houser, Kristin. “Human composting is now legal in five states .” Freethink, 30 Sep. 2022. Web.
2020
“6 In Case You Missed It…” The Architect’s Newspaper, Jan. 2020, 6. Print.
Enlow, Clair. “Earth to Earth.” ARCADE, 30 Oct. 2020. Web.
Enlow, Clair. “Recompose: Speeding Up the Natural Death and Life Cycle.” ARCADE, Summer 2020, 22-27. Print.
Ghosh, Pallab. “Human compost funerals ‘better for environment’.” BBC News, 16 Feb. 2020. Web.
Ryder, Bethan. “A matter of life, death and compost.” The Observer Design, Winter 2020, 24. Print.
2019
Block, India. “Dezeen’s top 10 architecture trends of 2019.” Dezeen, 16 Dec. 2019. Web.
Kiley, Brendan. “Recompose, a composting alternative to burial and cremation, finds home in Sodo.” The Seattle Times, 19 Nov. 2019, A7, A9. Print.
Wood, Vincent. “World’s first human composting site to open.” The Independent, 9 Dec. 2019. Web.
Wood, Vincent. “World’s first human composting site to open.” Yahoo! News UK, 9 Dec. 2019. Web.