Szentendre-new cemetery,catafalque and graveyard.

Szentendre-new Cemetery, graveyard and mortuary

Architectural conception:
We divided the task into two parts:
1 st- landscaped graveíard, park, cemetery
2nd- the buildings of cemetery
Our plan is, that the first part will be a gradation between a builded garden and a natural parklanded wood. The graveyard, as a green surface of the city, must function as a park too. As the city has enough green surfaces, the graveyard is proper to give a place for valuable and rare plant-associations. As a botanical garden, orchard, it fits for specie conservation. The patches and furniture of the graveyard are park-styled too. We had many requirements for the buildings. It must be up to date, buti t cannot be ostentatious. It must slick into the gentle slopes of the area . Enduring, sign-like masses with hard sentimental-sacral filling.
The meeting of physical and emotional planes is completed at the building of mortuary.
We accentuated two main functions of the cemetery:
- farewell to our loved ones, the funeral ceremony
- the visitors of the tombs
The funeral is a process with more parts. We paired these parts with built objects:
Upset, pain- bier table, inner mortuary
Rememberance- mortuary building
Honours- cemetery, main road
Final farewell, resignation- grave

On the emphasised stages we would like to create elements that, near the physical appearance manages an emotional-sacral surplus. Let the graveyard dare to be more than plain cemetery, the buildings and the main road have to suggest power. The cemetery has always been more than a physical set of parks, building materials, trees and plants. The art was always present. It helped the expression of feeloings, the cultural-social life of society. The buildings and the furniture of the garden are used for representation of handicraft, applied arts certified by the cultural past of the city of Szentendre.

Szentendre-new cemetery,catafalque and graveyard. by Géza Kendik in Hungary won the WA Award Cycle 1. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.