Liesbeth vander Waeren

This funeral home is the realisation of the concept ‘Phantom Pain’: pain you feel about something that’s not there anymore. This meaning about pain can be see in a larger perspective. The project wants to deal with the lost of comfort, with the degeneration of comfort. A place is created where space and landscape are connected in a strong way, the empty feeling about comfort is again fulfilled in the city. The landscape is the major key to all the architectural aspects of the building. The choose of the material, the language of form and the functionality are used to expose the landscape.

A quote of György Konrad was the direct link in this design. Like a ‘prothese’ on a body, the funeral home is connected with each individual, visualised in the concierge’s house. The routing through the building is not only the correct translation of the use of this type of building but also in a indirect sense the connection between life and dead.

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