C2
HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Award 2015 (Student)_Honorable Mentions
Advisor: Dr. Charlie Xue
Pleasant & Tranquil, Connection with sky and people... Death? Memory? Or the power of nature? The evocation of our deepest memory, different journey, same destination...The design of island approach creates the tranquli environment for memorial service and provides spaces for scattering cremated ashes to the roof garden, the river and the sea. It opens a new dialogue towards sustainable urbanism and residents’ need.
Typology Intervention: Changing perception towards death
1940s: Typcial Cemetery
1960s: Cemetery on slope
1. Low density with burial ground 1. Fung-shui consideration 2. Good environment with high 2. Destroy the hillside landscape affordability 3. Low accessibility
重.生.寺
The Re-Sprout The Garden of Remembrance
Concept: The rebirth of sprout
1980s: Compacted Cemetery
2020s: Landscape-philic Cemetery
1. Competing spaces with storage of ashes 2. Soul of the pass-by are trapped---Can not return to nature
1. Ashes spreading on landscape, return to nature, relax & tranquil 2. Creation of memorial halls, privacy
Strategy: Touchable Green Roof able
h Reac
Land
Sea
Traditional Block
Land
Compression
Sea
Land
Skew
Sea
Land
Lengthen
Sea
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n Ro
Gree
Land
Sea
Shear at one end + Scaling
Death is a taboo for traditional Chinese society. Can we change peoples’ perception towards death and bereavement rituals through emerging space form? The unique characteristic of sprout is a metaphor of our life. It is a process to spring out a new, resurrected life, bringing courage in the process from death, grief emotion to rebirth emotion. This idea of regeneration is captured from the spirit of sprout, thus extending the idea of rebirth further to the nature and the sea.