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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
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Traditional Block
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Compression
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Skew
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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.
Unexpected Emotional Model (Theme Generator) Tenement Private Housing
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Layers of zig-zag path intersecting each other express the uncertainly of life. After the memory transition, each strip represents each soul---Each soul will meet with another by destiny.
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Pok Fu Lam Cemetery
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La Mer Block
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Loops and loops of confined spaces are created to express the idea of struggle and emptiness during death.
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Main Hall
Hall 3
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The Site
Sandy Bay
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Floorplan (1:200)
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After all the struggles and difficulties, the journey of life restarts again---The regrowth of new hope and life. Here it uses soft and curving bundles to express the imaginary vision---The heaven on the cloud.
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Open Space
{Rebirth}
MacLehose Rehabiliation Centre
Victoria Road
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Sewage Treatment
Football Field
Scenic Villa
Office
Hall 2 Secondary School
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Legend:
1. Assembly Hall 2. Reception & Art Exhibition 3. Transition Hall 4. Passageway 5. EM Room 6. Washroom 7. Storage Space
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Location Plan (1:1000)
Football Field
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“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” “Two routes for users: Public user and Private user. The three halls are separated from the office because the assembly halls require privacy.”
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View 1---Gather Piazza: It is the focal point for gathering memories and thoughts to our pass-away. View 2---Reflection Space: Users can walk around and sit on the stepping outdoor landscape area, as well as touching the sea and enjoying the cool breeze. View 3---Assembly Hall Roof Garden: After performing memorial rituals, users can scatter the cremated ashes of their loved ones on the roof, river and the sea. The soul of the pass-away is intergrated into the architecture, bonded with our memory. View 4---Leaving Piazza: The biodegradable paper boat can contain ashes. The families honour and see the ashes dissolving in the river---an integration to the environment, leaving with encouragement towards future. This unexpected architecture recalls the balance between memorial rituals and open public recreational space peacefully.
Night View Section
Office
Sewage Treatment Plant
Piazza
Assembly Hall
Main Hall
Let’s return ourselves to the land and integrate with architecture. For typical crematorium, we store ashes in particular space which makes the atmosphere scary from the traditional mindset. Here the cremated ashes can be scattered to the sea, memorial garden and even on the hall roof. At the same time, it allows the general public to use the garden space for lesiure, art exhibition and social gathering.
Passageway
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Landscape Garden Storage
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Office
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Main Hall
Hall 2
Hall 3
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