38Re-Imagining the Urban CrematoriumRe-thinking crematorium and cemetery design in cities where a secular approach is undertaken to understand the psychology of the mourner without any religious bias. Segregating public, making provisions for a public park and a contemplative park, the proposal looks to make such sacred spaces approachable and experiential being perceived as taboo spaces.
14A JOURNEY OF THE DEADThis 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...
1Tree of Life - Ecological Cemetery in ShanghaiThis sustainable system involves placing bodies in vessels containing mixture of wood chips, alfalfa and straw and injecting air into it. In a month the body will be decomposed into a nutrient-dense soil, can be used in dedicated gardens for planting memorial flowers and trees.
2ZhaohuiZhoohui, is a public park-like where only the people who lost their loved ones use as a cemetery. It provides privacy by lowering the ground and creating a new space down the trees. Every tree has a role as a tombstone. But one tree can belong to many people. Human bodies are transformed by being sperated to their molecules and this does not need any place.
6Resonanting MemoriesChallenging the established structure of cemeteries, this project envisions new ways to mourn through resonating chimes holding the ashes of the deceased. Furthermore, cemeteries are no longer exclusive and traditionally ‘private’ but rather becomes a facilitator for socialising amongst those alive, and dead.
6Memory RequiemA memory space consisting of a combination of contrasts and meanings in the cycle of life and death
1Life pathLife and death are closely connected. The life path is an endless process from birth to the moment of physical death. Our project calls to think about how transient our earthly path is and how great this path is in afterlife.
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.
1Loop of living, circle of dead Our design of memorial process: Living people pass a long, constantly dimming corridor to keep them out of the noisy urban environment and enter the funeral hall in a calm state. Perform mass mourning in the funeral hall and use machines to make a boat with the ashes of dead. Walking to the upper floor, put the boat into the river channel and watch it slowly
3The Light of Rebirth -- Urban Cemetery Design Death is both the end and the beginning. It's both the passing and the birth. Death is valuable, and can still play a role in the world in another way . In nature, death makes life. Through the natural death and utilization of the individual, nature is constantly realizing new life, continuing in another way of life, so as to maintain vitality forever.
2poetic dwelling Poetic Dwelling provides a resting place for the deceased. The process from ashes to fertilizer is completed in the hourglass-shaped central building, so that the deceased can return to nature and give birth to new life, thus completing the cycle of life. Independent funeral buildings that accommodate different religious beliefs.
