The Crematory is an abstract object, a gesture in the landscape contiguous to the cemetery, which looks through its abstraction to awaken feelings of introspection, reflection and pondering beyond the faiths.
It is generator of meditation and a powerful catalyser of the feelings that the men can experiment during the confrontation with the death. An indefinite space where the artifice dissolves in the nature to let feel to the men that they are a part of it.
A space and an environment in whom the intensity of gestures and movements bound to the funeral rites is amplified. The Crematorium proposes a total sensory experience, which has for material the time and the space.
For the process of mourning it is essential to mark the separation between the lives and deaths.
A ceremony of passage of this world in the afterlife, concretized by a ritual farewell procession, without cults nor faiths pre-established, capable of giving rise to the mourning, in a space which shelters tears, the smile, the music, the embraces or the words.
This farewell procession, materialized by long walls, is a thread that guides the close relations of the deceased throughout the life and the death of the cultures of the agricultural field. A powerful track on which the Crematorium is in balance, as it is in balance the life in this world.
By itself, the procession is capable of gathering the lives and the deaths for the definitive farewells. And translate in an essential way a psychological need: the mourning, in a physical object: the Crematorium.
The procession is thus guided by long walls bathed by diverse zenithal light, which, suspended and pressed on its extremities, form the bridge that allows the close relations of the deceased to cross the void of the death.
MENTION
CREMATORY THUN-SCHOREN
Open architecture design competition
Thun, Switzerland
Architects : MAURO TURIN ARCHITECTES
project team : Mauro Turin, Magdalena Lewczyk
Landscape architects: Paysagestion
