Bernardo Bader Architekt ZT GmbH

Islamic Cemetery In Altach

Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer

ISLAMIC CEMETERY IN ALTACH 

Bernardo Bader Architekten

PHOTOGRAPHS
Adolf Bereuter, Nikolaus Walter, Peter Allgäuer, Bernardo Bader

CATEGORY
Cemetery

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Austria

Text description provided by architect.

The design of a cemetery is based on the beliefs and their funeral rites, which in turn say a lot about the particular understanding of nature and social relations.

Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer
Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer

This fact should also be shown clearly in the new cemetery project for Muslims in Vorarlberg.

Regardless of religious orientation, is the two forms of Christian and Muslim burial site in common, that the cemetery was the first garden.

Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer
Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer
Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer

As the real ‘Urgarten’ it is characterized by the cultivation of its soil and its clearly defined from surface.

When creating a garden for the first time a piece of land is bounded and clearly delineated against the wilderness.

The aim of the design is a very open and clearly laid out the overall concept.

Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer
Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer
Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer

A delicate weave of wall panels in various heights frame the graves and the built-structure. The 'finger-like' grave-scale fields allow implementation in stages, - the grave fields extend into the pristine landscape.

The planned grave fields are bordered by low walls and form separate rooms. They are each divided into a compact area for organized grave burials and a small room with sitting-bench.

Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer
Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer

The range of the required facilities are developed from the topic out of the wall. The result is a total investment of grave fields appropriate header.


Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer
Islamic Cemetery In Altach
© Peter Allgäuer


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