Cemeteryscraper: Skyscraper For The Dead
Editor’s Choice
2016 Skyscraper Competition
Martin Wong Tuong Ying, Choong Wan Huey, Edmund Goh Yow Feong
Malaysia
?Your soul is like the seed, in a flower-a carnation, which gets buried when the carnation (the body) dies. It then ?grows? again, into a new ?carnation?, and is in a new ?carnation?, thus ?re-in-carnation? has occurred, and the ?seed? ?grows? into a new flower.?
The mortality rate is decreasing due to the health, economic, social and other fundamental factors. Hence, the death of people is raising manifold unexpectedly compared to the past. In terms of urban planning, the proposal of the cemeteryscraper is aimed to house the dead in the deep underground expanding down vertically without the need of massive land excavation area in the future. The tower consists of a visitor interpretative centre for visitors, chapels, preparation and celebration platforms for the deceased family members for rituals conducting according to their native?s culture. The façade of the tower is inspired by the local natives? artwork of weaving. The architecture tectonic of the tower?s lower part stone facade is the reinterpretation of the art of weaving, interlocking with push and pull design language. The open air garden in the middle separates the tower into below and upper part, narrating heaven and earth. The upper part is the gallery, café, management offices, and memorial platform that ?float? above the garden tall in the sky. The upper part adopts the double skin fa...
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evolo
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