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Project • By BJ Arquitectes Associats • Cemeteries

Viladecans funeral home

This project includes the design and construction of Viladecans's funeral home as well as the design and construction of the adjacent public spaces and roads connected to the C-245 region's highway. Caption Caption The building is carefully positioned against the landscape, allowing the building's great concrete facade sheet to fold and become the natural prolongation of the graveyard's existing field. Now, where the concrete roof folds and transforms the old field into a plaza, the public square visually extends beyond the building completing the scenery with the sight of the Llobregat's delta. As the concrete sheet folds into the building's facade, a parametric play of calculated perforations lightens the weight of the sheet w... More

Project • By Viereck Architekten • Memorial spaces

funeral home - Pernold

Around the historical monastery in Mistelbach the new build funeral home in the Liechtensteinstrasse inserts between the existing surrounding. It was very important, for both architect and owner, to create an atmosphere with this draft, where people are able to feel secure and that they are in good hands in this time in particular. Unobtrusiveness in the design and clear structures were prevailed.We intentionally have chosen materials, which refer to the earthly existence – so the character of the building is shaped by natural materials like wood, clay, steel natural and stone in the inside as well as at the outside.The earthy character with slate stone, wood, glass and above all clay is found in all details in the building: Starting with t... More

Project • By EGM architects • Cemeteries

RUSTHOF CREMATORIUM

Rusthof Cemetery and Crematorium is situated in the densely forested landscape between the Utrechtse Heuvelrug and Gelderse Vallei. Here the bereaved from any cultural or religious background are able to say goodbye to their dearly departed in their own way. The current trend is customization. The design of Rusthof Crematorium has taken this into account.Contrast with existing monumentThe crematorium is part of Rusthof Cemetery. The building designed by EGM has a different feel to it than existing monumental buildings designed by engineer C.B. van der Tak, but is fully integrated with the original design as far as natural surroundings and urban planning is concerned.CustomizationThe design takes the wishes of the customer into account by al... More