Mausoleum

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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

Project • By KO-arch • Cemeteries

Calumeno Mausoleum

Structural Configuration and Material Selection The mausoleum, designed for the Calumeno family of Levantine descent, is a 3-meter by 3-meter cubic structure with a total height of 4 meters. The primary load-bearing system consists of reinforced concrete shear walls, while the exterior cladding is composed of 40 mm-thick Marmara marble. These marble panels are deeply carved into cassette modules, imparting a structural lightness to the overall form.A burial chamber, situated in the subterranean level, was designed to accommodate the coffins. This necessitated an excavation depth of 3 meters below ground level to create the designated space. Mustafa Seven ________________________________________Design Principles within the Context of... More