Location: Linz, Austria
Landscape Architecture: DI Barbara Bacher, Linz
Year: 2008
From the
architect. City
cemetery Linz / St. Martin is the biggest municipal cemetery of Linz and often
used as local recreation area due to its vastness and the generously designed
open area. The challenge of this project was to create a contemporary place of
burial with high design quality that may be used by differing religious
communities. Next to the newly organised entries for mourners and visitors, the
redesign of the chapel of rest and the service zones lead to a unique sequence
of courts and an improved routing. Positioned next to a highly frequented road,
the simple forecourt with its modest beam defines the threshold to a calm and
contemplative zone, to a place of silence; the visitor can take the time to
attune while wandering through the birch grove. The significance of the place
is underlined by using proven means of design like monumentality or by forming
ranges of vision.
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