It involves the renovation and adaptive reuse of two concrete silos in the city's Nyhamnen port area. The first of the two cylindrical buildings would be converted into a crematory and columbarium – a house for the dead – and the second would be a housing development – a house for the living.
The two areas of the scheme are differentiated by a change in materiality.
For the crematorium, the industrial concrete aesthetic is preserved and the machine towers reused for cremation equipment. The housing block features insulation and cladding that make it suitable for habitation.
A park with dense planting designed to resemble a forest would connect the two blocks
"The voids are spaces designated for the dead and inaccessible for the living that are visiting the columbarium," said the designers.
Water would cascade down the tall walls of the brightly lit columbarium, which is designed to contrast the darker, more intimate ceremonial areas.
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For the crematorium, the industrial concrete aesthetic is preserved and the machine towers reused for cremation equipment. The housing block features insulation and cladding that make it suitable for habitation.
A park with dense planting designed to resemble a forest would connect the two blocks
"The voids are spaces designated for the dead and inaccessible for the living that are visiting the columbarium," said the designers.
Water would cascade down the tall walls of the brightly lit columbarium, which is designed to contrast the darker, more intimate ceremonial areas.
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