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LIVING COLUMBARIUM
A Columbarium and
August 2022
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Individual Work
Located in the now demolished parking space in Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, this project aims to address the lack of cemetery space in central Vancouver by experimenting with the integration of spaces for the dead with spaces for the living. This project began with an interest in Jacques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction and Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette. I wanted to reprogram spaces traditionally viewed as polar opposites by reassigning meaning while interweaving them through a new usage that benefits both.
The columbarium is consisted of follies, niches, and sandpits. Each niche is accommodated by a sandpit, while every group of sandpit surrounds its folly. The follies are devices for catching rainwater. The water brings life to the children’s sand figures as their creation and joy ultimately breathes life to the site and to the niches.
Concept Diagrams
Final Plan with Highlighted niches and Follies 1:100
CHILDREN CIRCULATION
COLUMBARIUM VISITOR CIRCULATION PARK GO-ER CIRCULATION
