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Architects: Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Tim Van de Velde
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Text description provided by the architects. The reception infrastructure at Tyne Cot Cemetery -the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world, built in 1927 by Sir Herbert Baker- is conceptually perceived as a subordinate pavilion, orientated by both physical and historical axes and surrounded by a sophisticated circuit for its visitors.
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As a dynamic development of the original curved outer wall a cutout in the landscape embodies the approach of the pavillion. By the flanking rectilinear concrete wall -at the same height of the existing walls of the cemetery- an abstract spatial impression of a trench is created. The position of the visitors center is situated where the approach axis and an important additional historic axis in the landscape intersects.
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The horizontal pavillion with minimum height holds a half sunken patio. The pure volume, built into a slope offers a framed panorama of the nearby church of Passchendaele, the military cemetery and the former battlefield.
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By placing the building out of the content of the cemetery, the volume provides a relief from the old main entrance, allows direct access to the parking, creates an external perception of the original surrounding walls, and above all a complete experience approaching the entire cemetery itself. Not only respectful positioning and architectural language illustrate the modesty of the design.
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The new circuit allows the masses to visit the cemetery in a serene way, without intervening with the fragile historical content.
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