Requiem

supervisors: Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher

The diploma project aims to reinterpret the crematorium as an architectural program, merging its primary role (as a crematorium) with that of a linear, continuous, vertical space that offers a different sensory experience of the cremation ritual. The vertical linear space presents itself as a homogeneous juxtaposition of semantic environments whose properties, dimensions, proportions, voids, and ornaments fluidly delineate the character of each. We are thus talking about a space that is seen as a choreography.

The elements present in an architectural space can tend to provoke different reactions in the user, even if he or she is in a static observer's position. Even if we focus our attention on a single pose of a static choreography, our body relates to every object that makes up that choreographic composition.

The perception of spatial choreography is the main tool used in the coagulation of elements in a space that invites the user to experience different perceptions depending on the position.

Matter is the transformation of space into time and the expansion of time into space.

Bibliography

Choreography of the Architectural Space/ Choreografie des architektonischen Raumes - Wolfgang Meisenheimer

Tutors: Mario Gasser, Christian Kronaus, Jens Mehlan, Robert Neumayr, Hannes Traupmann, Mascha Veech.

Studio Zaha Hadid - Institut fur Architektur - Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst Wien, June 2014