1. Time

2. Cemeteries
Liminal
Temporal

3. Medieval Cemetery
Burial inside Church walls

4. With increase in population, so to an increased area required for
cemeteries.

5. 19th century cemeteries are based on “romantic” ideas of the
landscape as a pastoral picturesque representation of natures
divinity filled with monuments to humans mortality.
The use of the obelisk.
Destinations for strolling and communing with nature.

6. Architecture similar to the Greek temple, not for mortal
occupation but for spiritual occupation.

9. Erik Gunnar Apslund Architect
Woodland Cemetery
Enskede, Sweden 1914-50

10. CEMETERY PLAN, 1940
1 Main entrance 2 Woodland Crematorium and chapels of Faith, Hope and Holy
Cross 3 Hill of Remembrance 4 Woodland Chapel
Axial and Asymmetric Composition
Symbolism
Liminal Space

12. Terrestrial and Celestial

13. Outer Wall
Rough to Smooth
Classicism and Modernism

14. Entry linear and axial
Procession
Expansion and Contraction

17. 3 Chapels: Faith, Hope and the Holy Cross, with the
crematorium below.

18. Expandable Chapel
Wood Soffit.
Polygonal Wall

19. Woodland Chapel
Use of Swedish vernacular
Sentimentality

20. Note the capital detail.

21. Hill of Remembrance, Deciduous Trees

22. Hill of Remembrance- Horizontality

24. Apslund’s Grave

25. Paving Detail- Mnemonic to tree trunks.

26. Carlo Scarpa Architect
Ottolenghi House
Byzantine Mosaics, the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.

27. Carlo Scarpa Architect
Brion Cemetery
Treviso, Italy 1969

28. Plants and Symbolism: Sorrow, The Sacred, Life and Growth, Perfume,
Fertility, Change and Eternity.

30. Sorrow-reinforced by the board formed
concrete.

32. View to “Meditation Garden”
Water features from the Islamic garden.
Vines

33. Meditation Garden.
Evergreen tree.
Island symbolic of death.

34. Overlap of planes.
Water Lilly

35. View to the Brion tomb
Use of tile and water channel.

36. Brion Tomb

38. Japanese Maple

39. Chapel
Design Drawing

43. Water as the body
Void as the soul

44. Detail Gate

46. Carlo Scarpa’s Grave

48. Enric Miralles & Carme Pinos Architects
Igualado Cemetery
Barcelona, Spain 1994

60. Maya Lin, Sculptor
Vietnam Memorial
Washington DC, 1982

66. Night and Day