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[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Moksha Tower [Vertical Cemetery] - Yalin Fu & Ihsuan Lin

Mumbai's density leaves little room for the living, let alone the dead.
Traditional cemeteries take up space that will never be gained back in the future. The Moksha Tower project takes traditional burial methods from four major religions in Mumbai and translates them into an urban context. The tower frees up a significant amount of ground space for the living and provides within it a place of rest for the departed. The tower seeks to meet the needs of the entire burial process for several cultures within the city and create a temporary place of repose in the sky. It also acts as a symbolic link between heaven and earth. For Muslims, it provides areas for funerals and space for garden burial; for Christians, areas for funerals and burial; for Hindus, facilities for cremation and a river to deposit a portion; for Parsis, a tower of silence is located on the roof of the tower. It also contains public green spaces throughout the height of the tower, allowing places for worship, prayer and meditation.

Building Agenda

• To create a high rise cemetery so as to free up previous ground floor cemetery green space for recreation. In Mumbai, there is little recreation space for the living, never mind the dead.

• To provide a vertical resource for the handling and disposal of dead bodies which provides storage of the dead only for a period of time (e.g. 5-10 years) so as to ensure the ability of the building to continually accommodate the dead.

• To embrace and provide burial space for the 4 major cultures/religions represented in the community: Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Parsi.

• To provide appropriate space and facilities for the very different approaches to the dead within each community.

• To create significant public green spaces of refuge and contemplation at height in the building, for the benefit of Mumbai as a whole.

• To introduce vegetation and greenery into the city, to help absorb CO2 and pollution, counter heat island effect etc.

• To adopt new technologies into the system of handling the dead so as to decrease urban pollution which is often the case with existing cemeteries (i.e. through open burning/cremation).

http://www.ctbuh.org/Research/Design...S/Default.aspx

[Innsertnamehere]

so what is this? a vertical cemetary?

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

so what is this? a vertical cemetary?

yup,aint it great?

[NYC]

Looks like Life After People.

http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people/

[Roadcruiser1]

Actually this reminds me of how the first Islamic people and Mesopotamians got rid of their dead. They usually build a tower and put the bodies on the top and let the birds and other things get at it. The only difference is this tower is going to be used for burials not letting birds eat the dead remains.

[Infernal_Elf]

Finnaly someone made real plans and a vision for the tower i image every time i see a very large graveyard taking up way much space.

if someone stick to the first exterior design i think it would work very well the second looks to much abandoned. They would need to keep the Growth under control

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Mumbai’s High-rise Graveyard

by Amanda Arnold | December 10, 2010

“Where to put the deceased?” you ask, and architects answer: “in a skyscraper.”
Designers Yalin Fu and Ihsuan Lin have proposed a high-rise cemetery solution for Mumbai that promises to be both efficient and architecturally pleasing. Mumbai is a crowded place. According to the architects, “there is little recreation space for the living, let alone the dead.” A tower of graves would free up green space to absorb CO2 and counter the city’s urban heat island effect (read more about the urban heat island effect here). Meanwhile, the skyscraper would act as a symbol of the deceased’s assent into heaven.
Moksha Tower would be divided into sections to meet the needs for each of the major religious groups found in Mumbai — Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Parsis. For example, the design calls for a cremation facility for Hindus and a tower of silence on the roof for Parsis.
This structure would not be the world’s first high-rise of graves. According to Lapham’s Quarterly, a 13-story building on a hill in Santos, Brazil, already houses the dead. And a South Korean architect has proposed building a high-rise graveyard “where a cell phone call could light up the specific receptacle of your loved one’s remains, so you could view them from a distance.” Whoa!

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2010/...ise-graveyard/

[Trantor]

This structure would not be the world’s first high-rise of graves. According to Lapham’s Quarterly, a 13-story building on a hill in Santos, Brazil

a few years ago, a project of a 30 story graveyard for Santos was released. its still under construction though. Only the 13 floors one is completed.



at least the view is nice

by Elenilda
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/24219233