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Mourning Spaces: Projects, Journals & Ideas

58 Projects 60 Journals 17 Publications 3 Competitions

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Mourning spaces encompass physical environments designed to facilitate collective and individual grief. These range from traditional cemeteries and memorials to reimagined civic infrastructure that integrates death and remembrance into everyday urban life. Designers working in this area consider how architecture can honor the deceased, provide solace to the living, and preserve cultural and historical memory.

The community explores how memorial design responds to specific contexts and traumas, from personal loss to collective tragedy. Projects examine sustainable funerary practices, the resurrection of lost gathering spaces, and the transformation of death-related infrastructure into meaningful civic places that acknowledge both absence and continuity.

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UNI35 works

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Tiffany Karin2 works

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Shajiya

256

BENAAM AJNABI-The Unnamed Strangers of Lahore

What's in a name? Exploring the Narrative of a Protest.

Athamena

169

The Memorial

The December 11, 1960 Memorial project is part of the challenge III “Remember” category. It aims to perpetuate the memory of this important moment in the liberation history through a large-scale installation that will reproduce in an abstract way the different instants and elements that marked this date.

Shayan

164

Is This The End?

Humans always see cemeteries as a soulless and unbearable place. So they just go there to see their departed family or friends. But we can change this meaning of a cemetery to a plaza by changing a dead place to a dynamic and lively one.

Saeed

RETURNING

The idea of RETURNING is mentioned in different ways among different cultures, including Taoism, Islam, Persian literature, etc. Returning to our origin or God or Nature all imply existence of a circular movement that is extremely crucial. We show our concepts using the idea of Yin and Yang keeping sustainability and aesthetic considerations in mind.

Hasan and S

Remember The Cause (Understanding Karbala)

For the Muslims, Husayn's suffering and death became a symbol of sacrifice in the struggle for saving their religion, ‘Islam’. And for all Humanity his death became a symbol of sacrifice in the struggle for right against wrong, justice against injustice and truth against falsehood. Karbala may have happened 1400 years ago but it still lives in the memories.

Annabelle

Urban Cemetery

As the urban contexte generates a difficulty to cut oneself off from the activity, the design is based on an introverted form. The exterior appearance reflect urbanity as the interior is a sort of protected parc. Two atmosphers, two landspaces. The moment of death is treated as a « passage ». All the design tends to reveal and to mark each temporality.

Zsolt and 4 others

regathering

Memory IA entry description

Abhishek

Tranquillising Temperaments through Architecture

History has left us with many incidences & events that has lead us to what we are today.In great cities,the great buildings tell you things you don't know and remember things which you've forgotten.Mumbai being the capital of commerce had many mills which were the reason of survival of 9lac people.But shutdown of mills caused an uproar in the city's balance.

Dominika

The Dream of al-Ash?-r

Memorial, a voice of memory and dreams. Dreams that create a temporary structure that will be built up over time along with the opportunities and needs of local people, simultaneously with the reconstruction of the city. In time, the emptiness that results from the destruction will fill the void into a mass full of life.

wang and 2 others

'FU FU'

The design aims to explore a justice space for both the living and the dead, based on our understanding that birth and death are just like two sides of the coin. By creating a water platform as the main body of the worship space, this project challenges the previous worship activities.

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