Crematorium in South India | Mancini Design

Oct 2013 - Mancini enterprises completed a crematorium in Coimbatore 2 large pavilions in form-finished concrete provide space for the last rites to be performed - often in attendance of large amount of mourners - before the body is taken to the furnace area. The next morning family members collect the ashes form the admin building and proceed into the garden where smaller pavilions shelter the required rituals. The design of the crematorium located in a dense part of the city is concerned with providing a humble but dignified environment evoking traditional landscape setting of the river banks where cremations used to be performed before the growth of the city made these impossible. …. Fact file: Site: 4856m2 Client: G.K.D. Charity Trust Architecture and Landscape design: mancini enterprises pvt. Ltd. Team: Niels Schoenfelder J.T. Arima Bharath Ram K. Ganesh V. Priyanka Rao Priyanka Bobal Sridharan A. Rijesh K. Divya '>http://www.mancini-design.com'> engineering: mithran structures pvt. ltd. Contractor: Ramya Associates Photography by mancini enterprises