Funerary Landscape
Design and architectural approaches to cemeteries, crematoria, and spaces for death rituals within urban and natural landscapes.
Jim Caumeron Design Lifts a Muntinlupa Family Mausoleum Toward the Sky So Mourners Look Up Instead of Down
A private family tomb in Muntinlupa, Philippines, where a cantilevered white shell, a travertine descent and a cross-cut skylight reframe grief as uplift.
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.
Zhaohui: Where the Dead Become Trees in a Sunken Shanghai Park
A multi-faith funerary landscape lowers the ground plane to create a forest of living memorials from molecular decomposition.
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.
Loop of Living, Circle of Dead: A Circular Sanctuary Where Ash Becomes Forest
A memorial architecture proposal transforms urban funerary rites into regenerative landscape through water, ritual, and a symbolic island of trees.
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
