Requirements for cremation architecture in contemporary secularized society

Klára Frolíková Palánová; Jan Kovář; Tomáš Babor; Ivona Dlábiková; Ondřej Juračka

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6087

Authors

Klára Frolíková Palánová University of Ostrava
Assistant Professor at VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava Department of Architecture,Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Republic Responsible investigator of the project: VŠB-TUO Student Grant Competition. Project registration number SP2014/152. The issue of policy concepts contemporary cemeteries within the European background, their complexity and specificity in the field of creation. VŠB-TUO Student Grant Competition. Project registration number SP2015/62. Making ideological assumptions for the current absolute cremation architecture influencing modern methods and ethics based on cremation burials
Jan Kovář University of Ostrava
Assistant at VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava Department of Architecture,Faculty of Civil Engineering,Czech Republic Realizations:author realized burial ground and Study funeral ceremonial hall in Bruntál, Czech Republic. Urban solution implemented necropolis in Middle Bečva, Czech Republic Member of Project: VŠB-TUO Student Grant Competition. Project registration number SP2014/152. The issue of policy concepts contemporary cemeteries within the European background, their complexity and specificity in the field of creation. VŠB-TUO Student Grant Competition. Project registration number SP2015/62. Making ideological assumptions for the current absolute cremation architecture influencing modern methods and ethics based on cremation burials
Tomáš Babor University of Ostrava
2014: VSB – Technical University of Ostrava The anticipated graduation: Master's degree in Architecture and Construction
Ivona Dlábiková University of Ostrava
2013: VSB – Technical University of Ostrava The anticipated graduation: Master's degree in Architecture and Construction
Ondřej Juračka University of Ostrava
2014: VSB – Technical University of Ostrava The anticipated graduation: Master's degree in Architecture and Construction

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6087

Keywords:

Crematorium, Cremation, Burials, Secularization, Typology

Abstract

Burials of the deceased were always part of life of each society and that remain forever. In Middle European culture based mostly on Christian tradition, it was common place, till the end of 19th Century, for burials in a grave. On the beginning of 20s Century gradually began to apply also cremation. Its supporters pointed on its hygienic superiority compared to classical disposal with deceased. This led to established and gradual development of a new building type – the crematorium. Supporters also promote high quality farewell ceremonies and this resulted in quality burial and cemetery culture during whole 20s Century. The aim is to approach this new building type to the professional public and specify organization and typology for promote high ethic, ceremony, aesthetic and respect.

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