Graveyard
Architectural and design approaches to cemeteries, memorials, and spaces for contemplating mortality and remembrance.
Graveyards and memorial spaces represent opportunities for designers to create environments that honor the deceased while serving the living. These projects explore how architecture and landscape design can transform burial grounds into meaningful places that balance solemnity with beauty.
The community examines cemeteries as sites for ecological integration, poetic expression, and spatial innovation. Work ranges from terraced forest cemeteries and ecological burial grounds to sculptural memorials and contemplative gardens that reframe how communities engage with death and remembrance.
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View all 2 journalsTakeshi Hosaka Architects Suspends a Concrete Cross Above a Yokohama Cemetery
A 28-square-meter burial renovation in Yokohama lifts the symbol of resurrection into the sky so mourners see it against heaven.
void arhitektura Terraces a Slovenian Cemetery into a Forest Ridge Above the Bay of Trieste
Five terraces of washed concrete and karst limestone ascend a steep hillside in Ankaran, turning a cemetery into a traversable sacred grove.