Design Question 

Restoration of the ecosystem through restructuring the built and the unbuilt with  the surrounding landscape. How can the built landscape then suggest a more interactive space with the surrounding landscape and how can it suggest more adaptive conditions for the entirety of nature ? The area near the crematorium is desolated and the waste from the crematorium is dumped in and around the river. How can the waste ecology then be taken into consideration? How can the built environment activate the space and also interact with the river's edge? Connecting the river’s edge with the pastoral landscape that is behind. 

Argumentative

Design Intent 

To re-envision the cremetorium and the surrounding landscape. 

Programme 

• Re-envisioning what the crematorium and actuate the surrounding landscape.

Site  

Kalai river's edge   

Waste generated by the crematorium 

Change in water line over the years 

Activities 

Programme 

• Registration office

• Crematorium 

• Cremation ground 

• Electric cremation 

• Prayer and waiting area

• Storage 

• Resting pavilion 

• Bathing ghats 

• Bathroom and changing rooms 

• Toilet                                                                  

• Meditation space near the river

• Decks

Design Strategies 

• Creating a space that marries personal spaces for mourning with public spaces for a shared feeling of loss. 

• Providing an open space for contemplation and consolation by keeping in mind the environment.  

Conceptual ideas and design syntax

Design