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Julita Banaszak, Poland

Void

In praise of death through emptiness and matter.

#clarity  #connection  #cluster  #contrast  #circulation

An endless cycle.

Chaos leading to order. Death and life intertwine, not opposing but complementary. Through perceiving dying as a condition of living, inevitable and natural, the burial place connects with the urban landscape. The world of the dead encircles the world of the living, shaping the space in-between imagined as the area of the sacrum.

Vegetation, as an organic contrast to the ascetic architecture, gives protection from surroundings. The use of rough materials and lowering in the ground, provide isolation and tranquility. Spotlights emphasize the intangible character of the area – void and matter as a symbolic representation of death and life.

Clustering urns into doubled rings in the ground allows better space usage and gives a clearing in the center for contemplation. The structure is not secluded from the urban tissue, but through its form, neither hidden nor dominant, it unites with the city and recalls that death is a part of human life.

As time goes by, memorial expands, with each urn the light fountain bursts brighter.

As time goes by, nature expands, trees cover the hollows blending them into the landscape.

An endless cycle of life and death.

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Ka Man Lam, Hong Kong

Man Hin Leung, Hong Kong

Sung Kei Li , Hong Kong

Wing Ki To, Hong Kong

Title: I Mist You

Subtitle: Create a spaceless & timeless ritual

# Mist

# Commemoration

# Ritual

# Teargas

# Stop_the_action_Focus_on_feeling

Granny,

Well, It has been a while, two and a half years since I last talked to you. I’m doing well in life. I understand we all will lose someone we love at some point in our life, however the loss can often hit us anytime, anywhere and in harder than we expect— much to our chagrin.

Guess what, shortage and long-distance of burial space are familiar problems for anyone who lives in a city, especially Hong Kong, actually no more large-scale cemetery built. But it’s fine, I dislike the crowded and very far cemetery anyway,  I like being inside this mist to commemorate our memories permissively without timed-reminder.

So I searched for closest stop, walked here and customized the ‘misting-space’ on screen— picked your favorite songs, skirt’s color, and cake flavour which you used to make for my birthday… I’m feeling you stay connected with me during this time.

I may not have you here physically but I keep you in heart always… Ah! I forgot how long I stay here, but for now it’s time to let life play out.

This’s just a ritual.

I’m getting out, but you know…

I mist you——

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Name: Rui Serra

Nationality: Portuguese

Faculty: FAUL Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa

A PLACE IN THE HILL

#VerticalCemetery #Memories #DiamondsAreForever #Utopia #Clepsydra

Diamonds-

In the dome, a light structure of intersecting transparent tubes holds the diamonds.

After the body is cremated, the ashes are transformed into diamonds that can hold all the memories of the deceased person in hologram format, videos or photography.

Real diamonds that claim to be made of the same matter that ancestors are made of and that have in them all the memories of the universe.

The atmosphere resembles a starry night sky around a  campfire. Here, in the depths of the black emptiness emerge diamonds that reflect light.

Like the stars.

Like the cosmos on a pure night that keep the secrets that only death holds.

In fact, we all aim to live in remembrance

of those who stay.

Eternal, like the stars.

This is where the poet lives.

This is his nest.

Between fields and hills

These dyed memories.

This is the power of an idea.

Made of memories.

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Zhenyuan Wu

China

Norway, Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Tie Li

China

Norway, Oslo National Academy of the Arts

The Black Metro – an underworld moving company

The pain of losing families and friends scares us of death and makes us avoid discussing about death. Our project, “The Black Metro”, provides a concept: our dead relatives and friends just moved, trying to make the death not that painful and hopeless. This concept creates a virtual Underworld for the dead by VR technology. The virtual Underworld is the negative form of the earth. Before dying, clients can design their own houses for their dead future without following scientific principles. They can pack up favorite movies, books, furniture and so on by 3D scan and files upload and take it to their Underworld homes. They will receive house deeds with specific addresses. Also, pets and plants and unbuilt architecture projects and so on are allowed to register in the Underworld. The residents will be registered by year, which can solve the future population problem. After death, the company offers the dead check-in service and new ID cards. And the traditional funerals will be translated into a move-in ceremony. “The Black Metro” fulfills dreams of the dead by another dimension and transforms death into moving. Dying, in this way, might be acceptable for the dead and families and friends.

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Caterina Stefano    –    Argentina

Lucia Stefano    –    Argentina

Collective memory

To learn from our past mistakes and our past achievements.

#remembrance #posterity #future #barnoftheworld #afterlife

How do we remember our loved ones? On what do we center our grief? As we evolved as society and race we have changed the way we remember the person that is gone, centering on the part of us that doesn’t exist anymore, never celebrating what we left behind.

But what if we could save and share our minds?

We asked ourselves what is the most valuable part of our existence and we found that our experiences are the priming part. We decided to honor that, not our mortal bodies but the life we had, leaving behind experiences and learnings that are elemental to us and the society we shaped with them.

The most brilliant minds of every generation are celebrated and revisited on their work, but we think that every person on this planet has something to share. Something so valuable that should be treasured, for us to cherish the memories of our loved ones and for the society of the future to learn from our collective memory.

MISSING INFORMATION. PLEASE CONTACT US AT INFO@NONARCHITECTURE.EU.

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Name:Aitor Frias Sanchez                  Nationality: SPAIN          COMPANY: AFAB ARCHITECTURE

Name:Joaquin Perailes Santiago   Nationality: SPAIN      COMPANY: AFAB ARCHITECTURE

Name:Aashti Miller                             Nationality: INDIAN          COMPANY: —–

Title: THE SHIP OF THESEUS

Subtitle: Is something that has its components replaced the same object?

#Hastags: #identity #ciberpunk #dataworkers #theeternalquestion #moderntomb

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When Jon had barely turned 13, he was told that his father had ‘passed’. “Wait a week,” his mother reassured him, “He will pass back.” Jon had learned in school that humans are data cattle; our every move is tracked by an algorithm that has learned our behavior patterns. “What is an all-go-reeth-em?” Jon had asked his mother when he was young. “It’s you. It learns from you. It continues as you even after you pass,” she explained. Her response was simple and heartening, but it created more questions for the curious child. Every night before sleeping, he wondered, “But is it still me?”

No one cried when Jon’s father passed. When the hard disk arrived a week later, his mom looked rather relieved. 100 terabytes of his father’s essence – a virtual tomb or a resurrection? Jon recalled a recent newspaper advertisement, “You can be one in a million (literally!) A beautiful server farm you can retire to. Your personality will always be part of a productive society, economy AND even politics!”

A forbidden thought snuck into Jon’s mind. He suppressed it and smiled at his dad-disk, while his mother beamed. “Where do we really go after death?”

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Name: Zoe Russian Moreno

Nationality: Venezuela

FROM DUST TO DUST : Eternal Cycle

#duality #ensemble #cloud #conjunction #rebirth

In the near future; technology and nature have become intrinsically connected to one another. Death & Ascendance have evolved into a symbiosis between the spiritual and the technical. Therefore, follies with the ability to connect these 2 realms have been created to facilitate the passing of the dead. On one side, it uses the physical body of the deceased to fuel itself while uploading the consciousness to the cloud matrix where the memories of the person can be stored and revisited. On the other side, it breaks apart the body by dehydrating the core and turn it into fuel for the perpetuation of the general ecosystem.

During the process of deconstruction of the body, the memories of the deceased are displayed as a holograms where the living can see the person’s life. This provides insight to the psiquis of each individual. The data received can be interpreted for the living as a way of finding peace, justice, finality, etc…

Once the transition is finished ‘The Follies’ send signals to surrounding ‘caretakers’ for the succession of the space, and the process is repeated all over again.

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Team member 1: Andrew Gonzales Team member 2: Jourdon Miller

Nationality: United States

Institution: University of California, Los Angeles

TogetherWeGlow Capturing decompositional heat energy to connect the bereaved and deceased

#LightNeverDies #GuidingGlow #NormalizeGrief #NeighborhoodDeathPlazas #InDeathWeGlow

Religion and upbringing aside, the process of death is the same. Internal organs decompose first. The skin shifts from green to red as gases and heat bloat the rotting corpse. Eventually, the liquefied remains seep into the ground.

The modern industrial death economy severs us from this grotesque truth, overwhelming a traditional practice deeply unique to each community. Capitalism asserts its dominance in our most vulnerable state, robbing us of our ability to grieve.

How might a community look if the extended process of death was constructed as a vital part of its social and physical fabric?

To push against Capitalist expansion, many cities reclaim the street from automobiles as anthropocentric spaces. We take this concept one step further by inserting death as an integral part of pedestrian plazas.

The dead reside in individual pods in tubes that aid in the process of decomposition. The natural thermal output of bodily decomposition is harnessed to power a lighting installation surrounding each tube, illuminating a fully accessible underground world of the “living” dead. This intervention normalizes grief in a highly public manner, highlights the role of death as essential in our communities, and ultimately brings us together.

In death, we glow.

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Giorgia Greco, Italiana, Politecnico di Torino

Luigi Borghetti, Italiana, Politecnico di Torino

Memory Collector

“Would you live with me forever?”

At those words, my breath broke. Around us, the waves of the ocean broke gently. I still remember the earthy color of his shirt blending into the shades of the sand.

My husband left us three months ago. I taught my daughter that some feelings go beyond the physical presence. The material attachment is part of an obsolete culture with roots in a time when the virtual reality was not even conceived. I still wonder how they lived, in the past, when society was chained to the tangible value of things. To places. To objects. To bodies.

People don’t stop loving each other when their organic functions cease to live. Lifetime is only a biological issue. Don’t you know that death doesn’t exist until a memory is still alive?

The clock shape is funny, marketing agents know how to do it.

A clock that extends your loved one’s time.

A clock that allows you to collect moments with him and then relive them when nostalgia scrapes your throat.

A clock that transcends the constraints of time and transports you to an infinite heterotopy, when you want it.

Now, sorry, but I really want to feel Jack again.

Rose

2093, May 20

#clock

#memory

#collector

#heterotopy

#noncemetery