Funerary Landscape

A sequence of spaces should follow the traditional funeral process and harmonize with the mourner's internal experience allowing him to leave them to the walls.

Describing a set of rules for burial/cremation type memorial landscape for an overtime growth with an opportunity to have a change of an attachment to a living tree.

The final public release should give a clear clue to the living where the deceased will continue their journey.

To create a sequence for the user to bring their intense emotions, expose them to the series, and in the end, leave them there to return to daily life. The primary purpose is to help the user release the heaviness of the loss onto the walls.

Burial grounds would develop to be one with the landscape creating a feeling that the deceased has returned to nature.

The afterward visits to the burial grounds continue the funeral ceremony, which aims to mourn and celebrate the deceased, for which reason the two designs need to be linked.

The funeral steps and emotions in the sequence: entrance, celebration hall, transition, personal release - Sky Tower, official release, and dining activities which are all in the same order linked with the emotions - the grief of today, celebration and acceptance of the loss, clearance, complete emotional release, public release and the return to daily life. should all be linked in a functional and atmospheric sense to the surrounding architecture. The spaces should accompany not only the movement of the process but also the emotion which has a strong part of the experience.

The design is a set of rules the users use to develop further out into the landscape, with a tree being a center of peace. The living tree serves as a symbol of the family and the relative for the living. This allows the living who hold some attachment to the deceased to create a new connection to a living and a false impression of the relative living on.

To link the two designs were linked with the public release - a gateway, which was designed using the same language as the burial grounds.

The project required to move away from daily life architecture, but more to focus on architecture that might only function
maybe once every 5 years for the same user. This meant I had to create an unordinary journey for the user with an intimate connection to his/hers internal world as a funeral holds an impactful experience. The first clue helped towards developing a concept for a good foundation which led to creating a plot drama for understanding when the strongest moments need to happen and how the design should develop from the early stage to the final design.