Memorial architecture

The civil association AFADEM, of relatives of victims of forced disappearance during the period known as the Dirty War in the 1970s, is located in the Sierra de Atoyac, in the Mexican state of Guerrero. They all had one request: a place to remember their relatives (not a grave, because if they were taken alive, they must return alive). This place was also to convey a strong message: their willingness to continue the struggle they have maintained for so many years against oblivion and for justice. Sin Miedo Films In response to this, a multidisciplinary team was convened to produce this memorial as part of a documentary film production entitled Atoyac, el agua que corre. Starting from the premise that, as creatives, we should not make... More

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

The mosque's prominent location in the southeastern part of the site, coupled with the presence of a vast east-west axis extending approximately one kilometer, creates an exceptionally broad and desirable panoramic view. The preservation of this wide vista has been considered concerning the height of the human line of sight. Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Symbolizing the seven skies, the square's design incorporates seven concentric circles, representing the seven stages of love and the respective position of each martyr within these celestial stages. Moreover, cube-shaped prisms of varying dimensions and heights, strategically positioned within the human line of sight, metaphorically represent the martyrs... More

It is the renovation design of Yisabu Dokdo Memorial Park located in Samcheok City, the capital of Kangwon-Do, South Korea. Liu Haowei described the concept of the project as "a cloud lingering in the mountains". This symbol with oriental charm and symbolic significance has become the source of design inspiration. CAA architects CAA takes the most historic Yisabu Dokdo Memorial Museum as the starting point of "wandering in the clouds", extends towards both ends, surrounds the whole park, forms a strip continuous air corridor in the air, and connects the museum, art and Culture Village, residence and hotel into a whole. The four functional buildings are independent and interrelated. A complete organic architectural form integrates the... More

The chapel is conceived as a place of devotion and prayer dedicated to commemorating the soldiers lost during both World Wars and the victims of euthanasia. The chapel is also place to consider those currently facing adversity, as a means of relating the visitor to the scope, profundity and enormity of past war, terror and pain. Hanspeter Schiess for cukrowicz nachbaur architekten The design intention was to build a space which represents the perfect counterpoint to the despair and voicelessness of the victims it commemorates. A ray of natural light illuminates the underground space, entering through a single hole bored in the six metre thick outer wall. Twice a year, on March 20th and September 23rd, equinoctial sunlight beams direct... More

The project of memorial complex was created for architectural competition for design of memorial place devoted to the feat of participants of the Revolution of Dignity, Anti-Terrorist Operation and soldiers of Russian-Ukrainian war. This project on our site: https://www.vizdome.space/projects/chumackij-shljah. Caption Death is the line, the boundary beyond which everything is summarized. The memory of the dead lives until it is being interacted with. The main idea of the project is that the place of memory is intended for living people. It is necessary to interact with the memory so that the feat of our compatriots is never forgotten. Caption This is a place for reflection. So to speak, a secret non-secret place. Functionally t... More