CR01-MAHAPRASTHANAM, Hyderabad

  INITIATION

The client PHOENIX FOUNDATION with local Municipal Corporation undertook the task of accomplishing this state of the art crematorium from a neglected crematory. As an already existing 3.7 acre crematory/cemetery, the initiative was to build and accommodate the Hindu cremation rituals, culturally and contextually. 

ETERNAL   EMBRACE

Nothing can soothe the pain unless it has all come   to a form of acceptance. Hence, a form that embraces and reminds the living   of truth of life & death, and thereby creating a passage of   self-realization eternally supporting the reaved. 

ULTERIOR   HONOUR

An anxiety, a disoriented moment in one’s life   where time is frozen and a weight full of memories pull the living. A surreal   monument which stretches and bends, to support and shelter the memories,   creating a form that respectfully bows.

FURTHEST   FAREWELL

An instant of strengthening and brittling felt by   the living in finality as the spirit of the dead leaves the house; from   whence a form monumentally stands reaching out symbolically, is the farthest   reaching farewell. 

The customized script casting onto the precast walls were assembled on site in a month. The cavumaedium forms with their angular tendencies behold the culture and concept. Wall surfaces are splash over texture finished adding the wrinkle of the wise to these lone standing structures. 

In Hindu Philosophy of Ģta Life’s purpose is fulfilled when one goes through the 16 phases called Shodasha Samskara. Death in Hindu Philosophy is but a journey in search of perfection and eventual Moksha.

  Due to building on an existing crematory, the open land pockets left a scattered layout to the built forms. This leaves an organic layout of spaces. a screen od stone posts and plants add further privacy to each pyre.