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Rituals Crematorium
Rituals Crematorium
Guarne, Colombia
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Rituals Crematorium
Guarne, Colombia
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2005
BUDGET
Undisclosed
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The original commission consisted on a crematory accompanied by a space that allowed to celebrate a farewell ritual. To dilute the cemetery perception was a fundamental condition.
The architectural project use several strategies to face the commission: The landscape is involved as a fundamental part of the rite; the visitors are obligated to stroll for the project before entering to the temple and during this external journey they find a series of stations where the ceremony take place. The architectural elements that appear in this walk, are proposed as abstract pieces placed in the landscape diluting the building notion, the image of a park of sculptures transcends the image of a conventional cemetery.
The parking acts as an encounter square from where the journey begins, immediately there is a bridge that crosses the garden and the water channel to arrive to the ceremony square, whose background is a mirror of water with a metallic sculpture. This one hides the ovens chimneys coming from the cremation area that works under this square. The slopes and the borders of this enclosure serve as seats during the religious ceremonies. In one of the sides there is an upward ramp that goes tunneling the land in their journey to the temple´s door. The landscape begin to disappear preparing the visitor for the farewell ritual. This ramp fulfills the double function of hiding the tunnel for where the bodies are moved from the temple to the cremation ovens under the ceremony square.
The temple disappear the notion of windows completely and the natural light can enter through some cracks located in each side of the building and through another that separates the metallic roof and the stony basement. This breaks up any image that could liken it to a church. The material´s handling are consequent with the sculptural language of the group. The suspended lamps and the chairs over the wooden carpet confer to the temple a double scale, the human thing and the sacred thing united in this farewell rite.
The architectural project use several strategies to face the commission: The landscape is involved as a fundamental part of the rite; the visitors are obligated to stroll for the project before entering to the temple and during this external journey they find a series of stations where the ceremony take place. The architectural elements that appear in this walk, are proposed as abstract pieces placed in the landscape diluting the building notion, the image of a park of sculptures transcends the image of a conventional cemetery.
The parking acts as an encounter square from where the journey begins, immediately there is a bridge that crosses the garden and the water channel to arrive to the ceremony square, whose background is a mirror of water with a metallic sculpture. This one hides the ovens chimneys coming from the cremation area that works under this square. The slopes and the borders of this enclosure serve as seats during the religious ceremonies. In one of the sides there is an upward ramp that goes tunneling the land in their journey to the temple´s door. The landscape begin to disappear preparing the visitor for the farewell ritual. This ramp fulfills the double function of hiding the tunnel for where the bodies are moved from the temple to the cremation ovens under the ceremony square.
The temple disappear the notion of windows completely and the natural light can enter through some cracks located in each side of the building and through another that separates the metallic roof and the stony basement. This breaks up any image that could liken it to a church. The material´s handling are consequent with the sculptural language of the group. The suspended lamps and the chairs over the wooden carpet confer to the temple a double scale, the human thing and the sacred thing united in this farewell rite.
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