Project Vestfold Crematorium
By: architect, Pushak AS ; essay by Ingerid Helsing Almaas ; editor, Jan Olav Jensen ; translator, Stig Oppendal
Contributors: Pushak AS (Firm)
Series: Asbuilt -- 16; asBUILT (Oslo, Norway) -- 16.
Publisher: Pax
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9788253040424
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Crematoriums; Designs and plans; Architecture; Buildings, structures; Buildings
Other titles: Vestfold Crematorium; Pushak AS
Description: "In the ever more profane Scandinavian societies rituals of death have gradually been relocated from the religious sphere and the spaces of churches, spurring a continuous search for new ceremonies and rooms. The importance of these changing rituals is indisputable, and thus designing spaces that resonates with the gravity of these rites has become an imperative architectural task. "Faced with the technicalities and practicalities of the burning of human corpses on one side, and the vastness of death on the other, the architects have chosen a truly inspired strategy: as all the rooms of the cremation procedure are opened before you, one by one, there is also always a way out," Ingerid Helsing Almaas observes in her essay on Pushak Architects' Vestfold Crematorium (completed in 2010): "The challenge offered by this building is in the openness: you can follow your dead all the way. See everything. Take part in everything." Pushak Architects won the open competition for this crematorium with a bold proposal immediately after the office was established. Often, young ambitious architects with a correspondingly ambitious winning project succumb to the inevitable conventionalizing powers of the building industry. Not so in this case; the clever and impressive realization of this building makes it a prime object for documentation in asBUILT"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.