MEMORIAL SOL: ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT FOR A PUBLIC CEMETERY VERTICAL WITH AN AMBIENCE FOCUS
Vertical Cemetery. Ambience. Architectural design
This professional master´s degree qualification work, comprising a technical report and an architectural project, aims to develop a project for a vertical public cemetery for the municipality of Parnamirim/RN, with a focus on ambience. It discusses the transformations that have taken place in cemetery spaces over time, as well as the public health issues inherent in the activity and the use of new funerary techniques, with the consequent emergence of new spatial configurations, such as vertical cemeteries. In this context, the architectural project starts to encompass a series of technical and functional requirements aimed at current demands, but it can also consider physical-environmental elements that soften the hostile and negative image commonly related to cemeteries, helping the use of the space by the bereaved and the employees of this type of site. To develop the project, a theoretical and conceptual in-depth study of cemetery architecture and the concepts of ambience was carried out, as well as studies of direct and indirect design precedents. Next, the architectural program was developed, defining the dilemmas and goals of the project, based on Kowaltowsi et. al. (2011). From this base, and with the help of the courses curricular components, the design process is gradually being developed and expanded, through various forms of recording, from the initial stages of studies of constraints, concept, design, formal studies and the architectural proposal presented here, according to Mahfuz´s methodology (1995). Considering the qualification stage of this work, the proposal is in progress and the final results will be presented at the end of the master´s degree.