Green Funeral Ceremony Center Centro de Cerimónias Fúnebres by Or Man Lai

Green Funeral Ceremony Center Centro de Cerimónias Fúnebres by Or Man Lai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design de Arquitetura, Edifícios e Estruturas Competition Category.

BronzeArquitetura· 2020

Green Funeral Ceremony Center Centro de Cerimónias Fúnebres

by Or Man Lai

Client: Sage Funeral Services Ltd.

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Arquitetura Category

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The Design

About Green Funeral Ceremony Center Centro de Cerimónias Fúnebres

Gather é um centro de cerimónias fúnebres construído em Sai Kung, Hong Kong. O edifício segue três etapas de percurso, denominadas Partida, Reunião e Ligação. Um espaço expositivo permite que a família e os convidados velem o falecido. Um átrio público oferece descanso e reflexão, com luz solar e sombras de árvores. Um jardim de cinzas na cobertura traz elementos da natureza aos visitantes. A estrutura combina cinzas humanas com betão, e materiais reciclados são utilizados no interior. As formas evocam duas mãos que se encontram. A intenção é aliviar o luto e favorecer a ligação social.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Green Funeral Ceremony Center Centro de Cerimónias Fúnebres conquistou o A' Design Award de Bronze, um reconhecimento altamente prestigiado atribuído a designs notáveis que se distinguem pela criatividade, engenho e perspicácia. Os vencedores do Bronze são artefactos amplamente habilidosos e surpreendentemente criativos que comprovam a vasta experiência, imaginação e capacidade de iniciativa dos seus designers. Espera-se que Green Funeral Ceremony Center Centro de Cerimónias Fúnebres seja um objeto muito considerado, admirado e estimado, notavelmente profissional e inovador. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora as melhores práticas em arte, ciência, design e tecnologia e é excelente pela sua atenção ao detalhe. Green Funeral Ceremony Center Centro de Cerimónias Fúnebres satisfaz esplendidamente necessidades, toca desejos, encanta sentimentos e desperta curiosidade.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The green funeral center with the theme of Gather delivers the message of connection, of joining together and of humanity. The three stages of human flow are portrayed throughout the building and rooftop ash garden, which is intended to promote togetherness, in order to diminish the sadness and grief characteristic of traditional Chinese funerals. Its building materials and structure are composed of human ashes and concrete, in convergence with the center’s shapes, as a metaphor of two human hands meeting, implying that people can find a common point to understand that a funeral is a time to gather.
Dimensions & Packaging: 67200 mm x 20800 mm x 8200mm
Tags: funeral, ceremony, centre, HongKong, contemporary, eco, green burial, architecture
Production Technology: The funeral center has been unique in its use of recycled materials for the interior. The focus is on highlighting the Earth, inside and out, and the most innovative building material used was human ash. The building has created a space that makes human bodies useful in death, as they were in life, and creates a strong foundation thereby minimizing the use of non-renewable resources. The rooftop garden offers elements of nature to the guests, and the outside trees provide natural shade for their comfort.
Design Challenge: During this architectural project, one of the greatest challenges was dealing with the complicated nature of death and funerals, which are associated with sadness and negativity. Sage Funeral Services Ltd. always strives to provide a customized, high-quality funeral service experience, but Asian elders and traditionalists may not accept a green funeral. However, the designer is confident that the theme will promote a sense of community and offer a safe space in which to grieve and heal.
Research: In line with gathering together to celebrate life, the designer has created an eco-friendly funeral service center with recycled materials and an overall friendly space where visitors can have a unique experience of social connection and healing. The designer focused on the essence of a funeral to pay respects to ancestors and allow modern funeral services to infuse elements of environmental protection. We also utilized an ash and concrete mixture that is eco-friendly and reduces the use of resources.
Inspiration: With a view to gathering together, through an eco-friendly, modern funeral using recycled materials, visitors can experience social bonding and healing. Focused on the essence of a funeral being to remember one’s ancestors, Gather allows the customization of events to infuse elements of environmental protection. It celebrates humanity by using people’s bodies that were once important to life, allowing them to be essential in death, by converting the dead and Gathering them into a physical form. The building itself is designed to encourage movement.
Project Duration: Tai Mong Tsai Road, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
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Operation Flow: The whole space is divided into three parts: the Leaving, Gathering, and Connection. The exhibition space enables the family and guests to view the deceased in the early part of the ceremony in order to strengthen the cohesiveness. Then everyone can gather in the public atrium to have a rest and partake in some reflection. With the support of the family and guests, the sun and the tree shadows can calm the mind and body. Finally, all pass through the square, where the soul will be connected, and reach the final warm funeral and meditation space, and face the turning of life with forgiveness.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Or Man Lai, 2019.
Image Credits: #1 : Creator Or ManLai, Green Funeral Ceremony Center, 2019.
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