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Redefining Contemporary Rituals: Architectural Approaches in 17 Crematorium Projects

Niall Patrick Walsh — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

As people take greater control over the rituals surrounding their deaths, cremation has become an increasingly popular option worldwide. This shift has prompted the thoughtful design of spaces that address the profound emotions tied to cremation, life and death, and stillness. Architects are increasingly grappling with the question of what role architecture plays in these rituals.

Designing Above-Ground Cemeteries: Challenges and Solutions

Jonathan Yeung — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000

For centuries, burial practices across various cultures have connected honoring the deceased to the earth, with cemeteries firmly grounded in the soil as a symbol of eternal peace. Yet, as discussed in one of our articles, No More Room for the Living or the Dead: Exploring the Future for Burials in Asia, land shortages in densely developed urban areas present significant challenges to traditional burial practices, especially as societies like Japan face an aging population. Given these spatial constraints, how can above-ground cemeteries and columbariums be designed to provide a dignified, tranquil resting place while respecting cultural values?

Udan Crematorium / d6thD design studio

Hana Abdel — Thu, 13 May 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Ceremonial ramp deepen transition between spiritual park and sunken crematorium - Our fear and discomfort with death have left crematoriums with segregated, cold and depressing spaces in urban context so far. To change such underperforming hindu crematorium into a vital place at Amalsad town in India, d6thD design studio had been commissioned by a private trust. Architect came up with the idea to create a place not limited to fulfil the cremation rituals but to make much needed valuable public space for daily use in the urban setting.

Sacred Landscapes or "Taboo Spaces" in Indian Crematoriums

Lauren Crockett — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:00:00 +0000

The relationship that humans have with death is complex and ever-changing, this is inevitably reflected in the architecture of spaces related to death. To interrogate the contemporary role of these spaces, architect Sanchit Arora of Indian firm Renesa Architecture Design Interiors used his thesis work, "The Shadow Spaces; Invisible Sacred Landscapes of Indian Cities" to analyze the place of crematoriums within Indian society.