Crematorium Vestfold by Pushak

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The architecture of the new crematorium seems to achieve a functional and emotional needs of cremation. It involves creating spaces with dignity for relatives who choose to follow the ceremony until the cremation. It also means creating spaces for personal worth confirming the importance of their work. The crematorium has a high degree of transparency and visibility, to create a good work space and a reference to the crematorium for people in the region.

Public Building, : Crematorium Vestfold by Pushak1

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A balance between dignity, remaining calm and visibility in an area with high noise exposure due to its proximity to a highway. A beautiful beech forest area along the south. The building’s location along the edge of the forest is an outdoor area protect from noise and visibility from the road. The proximity to the forest gives peace and natural qualities of relatives access. There are large windows facing the forest in the rooms for relatives and staff. Relatives cremation space and rooms have exterior doors to the forest where you can retract and get some air.

Distribution organized into three main parts that reflect the different functions in the crematorium, the family rooms, staff rooms and cremation rooms. Virtually every room in the crematorium is open to the public. Cremation rooms designed to have the same degree of dignity and quality public spaces.

“The movement of the coffin, coffins and urns how to move from arrival to departure, has been the basis of the solutions space. To be simple moving lines is important to facilitate the daily work in the crematorium. There are two main lines, one for the coffers that followed by funeral directors and one for the coffin followed by relatives, after the main ceremony ended in a church or another place of ceremonies.

The ceiling slopes down toward facades create the input area and rise to the highest point in the cremation room. The intention is that the fronts where the public have reached a smaller scale, while the walls exposed to the road can be higher and more prominent. The sky also reflects the need for internal height: room height required for cremation ovens in the rooms to the high heavens, framed family ceremonies, while the rooms for the staff have a more intimate size.

Crematoria work spaces with heat generators and public buildings, so the technical infrastructure and security demands are complex. The choice of a palette of solid materials and restricted has been important to meet these demands without compromising the architectural quality. Brick is a humidity regulator and low emissions. Heavy materials exposed deliver low power consumption for cooling. The large amount of surplus heat to cool the smoke in connection with cleaning heating.