Time

Cemeteries

Liminal Temporal

Medieval CemeteryBurial inside Church walls

With increase in population, so to an increased area required for cemeteries.

19th century cemeteries are based on “romantic” ideas of the landscape as a pastoral picturesque representation of natures divinity filled with monuments to humans mortality.The use of the obelisk.Destinations for strolling and communing with nature.

Architecture similar to the Greek temple, not for mortal occupation but for spiritual occupation.

Erik Gunnar Apslund Architect Woodland CemeteryEnskede, Sweden 1914-50

CEMETERY PLAN, 19401 Main entrance 2 Woodland Crematorium and chapels of Faith, Hope and Holy Cross3 Hill of Remembrance4 Woodland Chapel

Axial and Asymmetric CompositionSymbolism Liminal Space

Terrestrial and Celestial

Outer Wall Rough to SmoothClassicism and Modernism

Entry linear and axial Procession Expansion and Contraction

3 Chapels: Faith, Hope and the Holy Cross, with the crematorium below.

Expandable ChapelWood Soffit.Polygonal Wall

Woodland Chapel Use of Swedish vernacularSentimentality

Note the capital detail.

Hill of Remembrance, Deciduous Trees

Hill of Remembrance- Horizontality

Apslund’s Grave

Paving Detail- Mnemonic to tree trunks.

Carlo Scarpa Architect Ottolenghi HouseByzantine Mosaics, the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.

Carlo Scarpa Architect Brion CemeteryTreviso, Italy 1969

Plants and Symbolism: Sorrow, The Sacred, Life and Growth, Perfume,Fertility, Change and Eternity.

Sorrow-reinforced by the board formed concrete.

View to “Meditation Garden”Water features from the Islamic garden.Vines

Meditation Garden.Evergreen tree. Island symbolic of death.

Overlap of planes.Water Lilly

View to the Brion tombUse of tile and water channel.

Brion Tomb

Japanese Maple

ChapelDesign Drawing

Water as the body Void as the soul

Detail Gate

Carlo Scarpa’s Grave

Enric Miralles & Carme Pinos Architects Igualado CemeteryBarcelona, Spain 1994

Maya Lin, Sculptor Vietnam Memorial Washington DC, 1982

Night and Day