Our friends from NRJA (be sure to view previous NRJA projects on AD, especially their 2009 Building of the Year House) shared their finished competition entry for a cemetery in Järva Common, Stockholm with us. Designing a cemetery is a difficult challenge as it is a place filled with symbolic importance and infused with a commitment to offering hope. The architects decided that this new cemetery will provide a place where the identity of the site is defined not only by the environmental quality of the space and its historical importance, but also by the project’s emphasize on concentration on the memory of the deceased.
More images and more about the project after the break.
“The cemetery will become a park of reflection, a meditation place, with a statement that the end of life is only the beginning of another road,” explained the architects. Arranged along an axis, the meditation road marks the beginning of the cemetery road and ends at a light obelisk on top of Granholmstoppen hill.
