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Project • By Jim Caumeron Design • Memorial spaces
Exalt
Waiting for Memory (Funerary Architecture)
What if a building compels you to look up?
Funerary architecture has always been about grieving for the departed. Our gesture is often to imagine their earthly body six feet beneath the ground. But when the studio was commissioned while the future occupant is still alive, we began to see death differently—not as an ending, but as an anticipation of spiritual transcendence.
This attitude inspired us to make the building an act, ritual and experience of exaltation: an architecture that turns the gaze upward.
Bien Alvarez
Bien Alvarez
Bien Alvarez
The mausoleum was developed within the strict height limitations of a memorial park. Rather than treating the restriction as a limi... More
Amadeus Manila
Amadeus, a leading travel technology company, engaged ID21 with the design of their new office in the bustling centre of Bonifacio Global City in Manila. This new office would bring together Amadeus and their subsidiary company, Navitaire, under one roof to build one community. The two companies occupy two different floors and have separate receptions for visitors but shared amenities for employees. It was important for the design of the new office to allow for different modes of working, through the creation of various spaces that were conducive for productivity.
ID21
ID21
All the walls of the office have been built on a curve or angle to mimic the shapes prescribed by Amadeus’s brand guidelines. With no sharp corners, the... More