Detail of the project ed. 2016

the-christ-the-king-grave­­yard / Rusan arhitektura

Design­er  Andri­ja Rusan
Loca­tion  Pože­ga, Croatia
Design Team  

authors: Snježana Jakopčić, Andri­ja Rusan
project team: Dar­i­ja Kri­vak, Nikoli­na Mikuličić, Mar­i­jan Milković, Lana Stipičić
Year  2013
Pho­to credits  

Pho­to cred­it (for all pho­tos): Damir Fabijanić

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Project descrip­tion

As the exist­ing capac­i­ties of Pože­ga ceme­tery had been used with no pos­si­bil­i­ty to expand, a new ceme­tery was built on the plain in the south­ern part of the city. Locat­ed in a field barred by round­ed, tape-like walls that form a chapel, a hall, a mor­tu­ary and some addi­tion­al func­tion­al spaces; at the same time they also sep­a­rate the ceme­tery space from the field and form the main entrance. With the round­ed wall geom­e­try, the size of the com­plex and the usage of the over­baked clay bricks, which is often con­sid­ered as a dis­pos­able mate­r­i­al and it there­fore car­ries a cer­tain pati­na, the ceme­tery fits suit­ably into the envi­ron­ment, giv­ing us the impres­sion that it has always been there.
The inte­ri­or is calm, with­out unnec­es­sary fur­nish­ing, the com­bi­na­tion of mate­ri­als cre­ates a space that is warm and spir­i­tu­al. The bare bricks dom­i­nate the view, com­bined with unfur­nished gran­ite floors, wood­en sur­faces and fur­ni­ture made out of Slavon­ian oak.

Cen­tral cross is posi­tioned at the end of an axis that starts at the entrance and runs in par­al­lel with the main build­ing. The cross is made out of gild­ed stain­less steel and is almost ten meters high. The base of the cross is com­prised of two organ­ic forms. The one which holds the cross is coat­ed in gran­ite, while the oth­er one that serves as an access point and it also car­ries three bench­es was made out of care­ful­ly poured con­crete, which was sand­blast­ed after­wards. On this base the first oak from the spi­ral line of oak trees is plant­ed; the line was con­struct­ed to form a back­ground the to cross one day — cross being the final point of the axis of the cemetery.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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