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SkogskyrkogÅrden Funerary Chapel

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archSchweitzer

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Cultural › Religious
Landscape + Planning › Cemetery

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Located five miles south of Stockholm, Sweden is Skogskyrkogarden, otherwise translated to The Woodland Cemetery. Designed by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz in the early 1900s, this 40 year long design stood for one sole purpose, a cemetery can celebrate life, it can be beautiful, and this can all happen through a relationship with Nature. In 2009 an international design competition was held to build a new crematorium behind the existing crematorium due to new codes and standards. The winning design 'a stone in the forest' designed by Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor AB is currently being built. In response to the complexity and beauty of the existing conditions and ideology, a new funerary chapel will be needed to accommodate the new crematorium due to the amount of use the existing chapels get.

Much like the symbolism used by Asplund and Lewerentz, the entire intention of the building will be a journey, both one of consciousness and unconsciousness. The intended journey, when defined (broadly) like in Asplund's intended obelisk inscribed with "Today it is me, Tomorrow it will be you", in other words a user approaches with the intention to face a loved one's death, but there is always that lingering whisper of one's own mortality, and that is what my architecture will try to conquer: The respected farewell to a loved one should result in a sub-or-fully-conscious reminder not to fear death but embrace life. On such a sad day, one should be reminded that they loved the person they are leaving behind because of the life they lived, and that life...is something to celebrate.

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