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Tower for the Dead
DESIGN CONCEPT
1. The typology of cemeteries until early XXI century have been developed in a horizontal way increasing by the time their footprint and creating “Cities for the Dead", which usually are seen as sites for "rest" where people remember their loved ones. The grieving process begins with the burial where family and friends back home feeling as dead as the corpse they just bury.
2. The growth process is reversed by focusing on a point of the cemetery that allows the gradual release of space of the graves area for its transformation into green areas. Gravestones become trees.
3. Over time the cemetery grows in a vertical way into the ground; transforming its relation with the environment and creating a "Tower for the Dead". Family and friends not only bury their dead, but they accompanying hundreds of feet underground and starting a psychological and sensory experience of the grieving process due to architecture. They return home reborn after a trip to the underworld.
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
The tower ramps pierce the ground like a screw using the land as a template for the construction of curved retaining walls. At the end of the process the core of soil is removed creating a vacuum that provides light and ventilation for the ramps. The depth of the building is given by the symbolism of underworld in the grieving process
1. The typology of cemeteries until early XXI century have been developed in a horizontal way increasing by the time their footprint and creating “Cities for the Dead", which usually are seen as sites for "rest" where people remember their loved ones. The grieving process begins with the burial where family and friends back home feeling as dead as the corpse they just bury.
2. The growth process is reversed by focusing on a point of the cemetery that allows the gradual release of space of the graves area for its transformation into green areas. Gravestones become trees.
3. Over time the cemetery grows in a vertical way into the ground; transforming its relation with the environment and creating a "Tower for the Dead". Family and friends not only bury their dead, but they accompanying hundreds of feet underground and starting a psychological and sensory experience of the grieving process due to architecture. They return home reborn after a trip to the underworld.
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
The tower ramps pierce the ground like a screw using the land as a template for the construction of curved retaining walls. At the end of the process the core of soil is removed creating a vacuum that provides light and ventilation for the ramps. The depth of the building is given by the symbolism of underworld in the grieving process
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