41Runner-upRoss Island: A case of perishing paradiseThe project intends to appraise and accept the sinking of Ross Island of Andaman and eulogize the state of dystopia by balancing nature, architecture, and history of the eras that the island has witnessed. Also, focuses on how the people and Indian Navy will react to climate change and adapt as the Island passes into oblivion.
1Another UniverseSince the cemetery is not a place that people want to see every day, this complex is veiled as a park structure that develops in time(in eternity). The architecture of the object is represented by three types of spaces: closed-memorial complex and restaurant; semi-open-columbarium; open - park, located on the roof of the complex.
4A Spring for SoulsRebirth of Shanghainese mourning spaces Between modernity and tradition, a lasting place for death.
5Garden of ghostsYou dont need grave for mourning, you just need to know that somenthing from your close person is somewhere near.Everything in the garden is from deceased people.We can create water and soil from dead bodies. The water flows under the entire park and watering trees,the soil is is used as fertilizer.Humans body returns to to nature.Circle of life is closed.
1Return To EarthIn the past, cemeteries have served as special places for the community. They functioned as emotional places for people to contemplate and reflect. To reintroduce cemeteries in urban areas, cutting edge technology must be incorporated to accommodate for the growing urban population and, while using ecologically beneficial solutions
145Honorable MentionIn Light We ReturnThe 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.
4Editor's ChoiceDome Hall CemeteryInspired 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.
13The Hills of Shanghailooking at the cemetery as a growing system that is given time to develop and sculpt itself, becoming an iconic part of the urban fabric and an ecological hotspot.
6Memory RequiemA memory space consisting of a combination of contrasts and meanings in the cycle of life and death
134Editor's ChoiceBeyond the treeThe project is intended as an architectural interpretation of the tree. A break out of time and moments disconnected from the urban frenzy are established through the work of three interiorities. The tree becomes a project vector, a tool for designing space, sculpting architecture, orienting the believer and sequencing the path of a new chapel.
12People's Choice AwardNestsRealizing a mean to let the coexistence between man and the natural environment happen