Space of Death

Space of death

At the end of people life, all people in this small world will end up with death. None of us is immortal, then do not be afraid of death. The only things to be left to remember are the name and good memories of each person.
Columbarium is the place to collect these memories into a particular space. Sometimes, the columbarium, cemetery, memorial and mausoleum are believed that they were places for sadness and scary. In contrast, these places should be the place for good memories that these dead people have done when they were alive. When I have visited these places, I was thinking how to change the attitude of people to this scary image of columbarium. Therefore, I looked at some of interesting memorial places in the world to be my case study for my design.

As burial field, Netherland









"Cemeteries have always been, and still are, reflections of society: they provide an insight into the relationship between the collective and the individual, the social environment of the time, the overall natural scene, the funerary culture and developments in the field of design and landscape architecture"


This project has changed the image of the cemetery and columbarium in my mind. It has been designed in a modern style architecture. the architect Karres en Brands has designed a good combination between natural context and aluminium facade columbarium. 

Los Angeles Museum of Holocaust











"From the architect, Belzberg Architect, The new building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) is located within a public park, adjacent to the existing Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial.  Paramount to the design strategy is the integration of the building into the surrounding open, park landscape. The museum is submerged into the ground allowing the park’s landscape to continue over the roof of the structure.  Existing park pathways are used as connective elements to integrate the pedestrian flow of the park with the new circulation for museum visitors."

This project is quite similar to my idea to create arhitecture in the park with roof garden on top, this makes the building to become part of surrounding environment. Although this is not a cemetery or columbarium but in this place also exhibit and represent the story of dead people.