Green Funeral Ceremony Center Ikigo cy'Imihango y'Amaraso by Or Man Lai

Green Funeral Ceremony Center Ikigo cy'Imihango y'Amaraso by Or Man Lai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze in Igishushanyo cy'Ubwubatsi Competition Category.

BuronzeUbwubatsi· 2020

Green Funeral Ceremony Center Ikigo cy'Imihango y'Amaraso

by Or Man Lai

Client: Sage Funeral Services Ltd.

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze Winner in Ubwubatsi Category

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The Design

About Green Funeral Ceremony Center Ikigo cy'Imihango y'Amaraso

Gather ni ikigo cy'imihango y'amaraso cyubatswe i Sai Kung, muri Hong Kong. Inyubako ikurikiza intambwe eshatu z'igendekana, zitwa Kugenda, Guteranira, na Guhuza. Ahantu h'amashusho hemerera umuryango n'abashyitsi kureba umuntu wapfuye. Ahantu rusange ho hagati (atrium) hatanga ahantu ho kuruhuka no gutekereza, hifashishijwe urumuri rw'izuba n'ibicucu by'ibiti. Ubusitani bw'ivu ku gisenge b'ingoro buzana ibintu bikomoka ku bidukikije ku bashyitsi. Inyubako ihuza ivu ry'abantu n'amabuye y'inzu (concrete), naho ibikoresho byongeye gukoreshwa bikaboneka imbere. Imiterere yibutsa intoki ebyiri zihuriye. Intego ni ugucyura umubabaro no gushyigikira guhuza abantu mu buzima bwabo.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze

Green Funeral Ceremony Center Ikigo cy'Imihango y'Amaraso ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze, ishimwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo by'indashyikirwa birangwa no guhanga, ubwenge n'ubushishozi. Abegukanye Buronze ni ibihangano bifite ubuhanga bwinshi kandi bihanga cyane, bishimangira uburambe, ubwenge n'ubushobozi bw'ababihanze. Green Funeral Ceremony Center Ikigo cy'Imihango y'Amaraso biteganyijwe ko izaba ikintu cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifite ubunyamwuga n'udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Buronze gikoresha uburyo bwiza mu buhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga kandi kirarenze mu gutaha ku tuntu duto. Green Funeral Ceremony Center Ikigo cy'Imihango y'Amaraso ishimisha ibyo dukeneye, ikora ku byifuzo byacu, itwara amarangamutima yacu kandi ikurura amatsiko yacu.

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
Remaining Portion of section B of Lot no.333 Lands
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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