Award / Auszeichnung (auch für Studenten) | 06/2023
LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award 2023
©Battle i Roig arquitectes
Forest path in the Roques Blanques Cemetery in the Collserola Natural Park
Special Mention | Public Landscapes
Landschaftsarchitektur
Projektdaten
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Gebäudetyp:
Landschaft und Freiraum
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Projektgröße:
keine Angabe
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Status:
Realisiert
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Termine:
Fertigstellung: 01/2021
Beurteilung durch das Preisgericht
The Forest Path is part of a larger, existing cemetery, where Batlleiroig designed one of their first projects as early as 1985. A shift in people’s relation to burial traditions and issues of space brought the need for a new, more nature-friendly means of burial practice.
Batlleiroig designed a Krainer wall structure, ready to host plants and wooden urns that contain the ashes. With time, the wooden logs and the urns will disintegrate, leaving behind a slope overgrown by plants that will further change through the passing of seasons. This reference to the cycle of life effectively acts as the memorial whilst providing more efficient use of land, infrastructure and other resources.
Besides the progressive and innovative solution, the jury was also charmed by the elegant design of the Forest Path and its forest-edge ambience.