Circle of Life

Urban cemeteries in context of future

Shanghai, China

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Winner

1 Entry

Xavier and 2 others

Epicurus

“Death matters only to the extend that it makes us reflect on the value of life.”

Runner-up

2 Entries

SIYUAN and 4 others

PRAVIEK

Our design is the concrete Prawiek, which connects and woven the memory of the city with the memory of everyone. The building, which grows in an infinite upward spiral, is a vertical green space, a space for commemoration, and time of the whole city.

Windy and 3 others

Another Way to Accompany

We apply yarn structure to our design as an innovation. Through this design, we want to convey that : the death of our loved ones doesn't mean the end. They become the air we breathe, the scenery in our eyes, the shade in summer, the fragrant smell and the eternal power in our hearts. Don't be so sad. Their departure is just another way to stay with us.

Honorable Mention

5 Entries

Kevin

Hongkou Cemetery: A City of the Dead

The design seeks to respond to the ever-increasing need for more accessible burial places in Shanghai by exploring a balance between efficient density and quality of space.

Annabelle

Urban Cemetery

As the urban contexte generates a difficulty to cut oneself off from the activity, the design is based on an introverted form. The exterior appearance reflect urbanity as the interior is a sort of protected parc. Two atmosphers, two landspaces. The moment of death is treated as a « passage ». All the design tends to reveal and to mark each temporality.

Jienan and 2 others

145

In Light We Return

The project is to replace the traditional generic cemetery space with highly differentiated urban context, releasing the identical heavy stone-made tombs on the ground to various sensitive crystal-like prism in the sky, the tension between life and death, mortal and immortal, past and future has been reintegrated in increasing densified urban realms.

xiaofan and xu

Back To Earth

The idea of this project is to combine the burial process with the human body compost technology and create a landmark tower to present this process.

MINGJIE and 2 others

Parting in matter,Reunion in spirit

People bid farewell to the ashes in a clear spring, let the current lead people to experience parting, merge into a waterfall into the garden, and the memories of loved ones are presented through projection. The material follows the clear spring to return the soil, while the spirit remains here forever to comfort those who come.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Shayan

164

Is This The End?

Humans always see cemeteries as a soulless and unbearable place. So they just go there to see their departed family or friends. But we can change this meaning of a cemetery to a plaza by changing a dead place to a dynamic and lively one.

Editor's Choice

4 Entries

Punchanit and Patcharin

Good Death Best Park

A new cemetery in context of future. It contains all the dead bodies with an intention to solve the area problem and bring all the religion being together in the same place.

Ximeng and 2 others

YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS COLLIDE

The postmodern society presents fragmented understanding of reality and of death. Emotions are highly personal, and the burying of loved ones, though often performed as a group practice, is simultaneously an intimate experience.

Tao Hung and 賢

UNderNature

A contemporary urban cemetery coexisting with urban daily life. The fundamental change of the mechanism of cemetery makes the capacity of worshiping scalable and flexible. The architectural form and waterscape allow users with different purposes coexist without interrupting with each other.

Zheng

Dome Hall Cemetery

Inspired by the traditional Chinese life style and ancestor hall, I deconstruct the traditional building‘s space features and integrate them into a DOME HALL. It can accommodate a variety of worship activities, and become a special and solemn landscape of the urban area.

Organizer's Choice Award

1 Entry

旭悦

LIGHT HOUSE

This vertical cemetery was designed to address the shortcomings of traditional funeral customs through a new funeral model.

Shortlisted

16 Entries

Sophie and be

A garden for memories

"Today, my mother is dead. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."

Margaux

NECROPOLIS

- an architecture project designed to host all the timescales for the deceased, and support for the society -

Annie

Primitive and Remnant of the Cycle

To eliminate the horror of the cemetery and to reconnect the departed one into our daily life, I believe that the cemetery can be more than a piece of land for resting the deceased. It can also be a decent and splendid place that situates all around our cities.

CHUANCHUAN

TICKET TO STARRY SKY

I remember a saying that people often say: Those friends who left have gone to another planet, and they will become stars to accompany you in the sky.So I hope this cemetery space becomes a bond between two time and space.We become transparent from entities.They change from nothingness to transparency.Eventually we meet in this transparent space.

Alice and 2 others

A JOURNEY OF THE DEAD

This proposal redefines the concept of a cemetery and tries to marry the concept of a public space with the place where the dead go to rest... It explores the cemetery as an active part of the urban fabric. It allows for the journey of death to take place in a a public space without interrupting the daily activity of a city and vice versa...

Алена and 2 others

(Re)embodiment

DNA of a deceased person is introdused into a plant cell from which body grows. This applies to any plants: trees, flowers, herbs. Plant DNA is easier to carry mutations and changes in the genome. It is one of our reasons to create “green cemetery”. Plants continue life of the decreased.

Circle of Life

Winner

Epicurus

Runner-up

PRAVIEK

Another Way to Accompany

Honorable Mention

Hongkou Cemetery: A City of the Dead

Urban Cemetery

In Light We Return

Back To Earth

Parting in matter,Reunion in spirit

People's Choice Award

Is This The End?

Editor's Choice

Good Death Best Park

YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS COLLIDE

UNderNature

Dome Hall Cemetery

Organizer's Choice Award

LIGHT HOUSE

Shortlisted

A garden for memories

NECROPOLIS

Primitive and Remnant of the Cycle

TICKET TO STARRY SKY

A JOURNEY OF THE DEAD

(Re)embodiment

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