Funerary Geography
Design and spatial approaches to death, burial, and memorial landscapes in urban and cultural contexts.
Crematorium: A Low Riverside Campus That Reframes Hindu Cremation on Nepal's Kankai River
Sadar Bhandari's thesis threads canals, pyres, electric furnaces and ventilation corridors into a horizontal ritual landscape in Jhapa, Nepal.
Vertical Cemetery: Stacking Chennai's Burial Grounds into a Triangular Tower of Remembrance
A triangular tower at Kilpauk Cemetery in Chennai stacks vaults, columbaria and burial lawns, turning a land shortage into a vertical path of grief.
Exit Music: Reimagining Death as Civic Infrastructure in New Delhi
A funerary landscape in Vikram Nagar proposes that remembrance, ritual, and ecology can heal the urban fractures modern cities refuse to confront.
Between Memory and Oblivion: A Refugee Cemetery Carved into the Landscape of Lesvos
Mourning Courses proposes a cemetery for refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos, where water, light, and carved ground guide visitors through grief.
Barrancos Mortuary: Exemplifying Contemporary Cemetery Architecture in Portugal
Barrancos Mortuary in Portugal exemplifies contemporary cemetery architecture, blending local materials, landscape integration, and contemplative, functional spaces for remembrance.
A Journey of the Dead: Vertical Cemetery Architecture Reimagined as Urban Parkland
A 26-storey modular cemetery tower system weaves burial rituals, sky gardens, and civic walkways into dense urban life.
Memory Requiem: Dissolving the Boundary Between Cemetery and City Park in Shanghai
A shortlisted cemetery design splits a dense Shanghai site into zones for life and death, linked by a contemplative park and bio-lab ecology.
Circle of Life: A Vertical Cemetery That Treats Death as Public Infrastructure
A modular urban cemetery uses aquamation, vertical gardens, and inclusive programming to reframe death within the city fabric.
πr²: A Cemetery Where Cremated Remains Nourish Living Memorials
Flexel Studio reimagines urban burial as a regenerative landscape where ashes decompose beneath vertical pikes, feeding seeds that bloom into living monume
Poetic Dwelling: Turning Ashes into Fertile Ground with Funeral Architecture
An hourglass-shaped cremation complex converts human remains into fertilizer, merging cemetery and public park across a pedestrian bridge.
Printomb: 3D-Printed Tombs That Grow Like Desert Dunes Across Urban Ground
A digitally fabricated cemetery reimagines burial as a modular, evolving landscape woven into the infrastructure of the contemporary city.
Memories of Stars: A Vertical Cemetery That Dissolves the Dead Into Light
In land-scarce Shanghai, a speculative twin-tower memorial transforms cremated remains into glowing stars that fade into water.
