Mourning Hall: Soft Light, Wood, and Secular Solemnity

Design a memorial hall for funeral ceremonies in Taiwan, dignified without leaning on any single religious iconography. Show a calm rectangular room with walls lined in a pale warm timber laid in fine vertical boards, rising to a soft coved junction with a plain plastered ceiling. Detail the focal wall as a shallow recessed alcove in a slightly deeper tone, lit by a concealed wash from above so it glows gently — a place for a portrait and flowers without a fixed altar form. Show seating as simple upholstered benches in a muted oatmeal fabric, arranged in gentle arcs rather than rigid rows so the gathering feels held rather than regimented. Detail a continuous clerestory of frosted glass high on one side, admitting soft even daylight with no visible sky and no glare. Show the floor in a soft dark carpet that absorbs sound entirely. Detail a single tall vessel of white flowers as the only ornament. Keep the palette to pale timber, oatmeal, off-white and charcoal. Photorealistic, hushed, warm and restrained, eye-level view from the rear.