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The Lake of Farewells: a new narrative in Zografou’s Cementery.

Ntani Alexandra

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As the modern city continues to spread, cemeteries have become multidimensional urban spaces where the "threshold" of the cemetery space is absent. A space where the enigmatic otherness of death meets and converses with the city of the living.The largest cemetery in Athens, Zografou’s Cemetery, on the border of the city with the foothills of Hymettos, reflects this condition. The proposal attempts to answer both the functional and the conceptual demands of the cemetery.The plaza and the public space of the cemetery are reconfigured as spaces of transition between the two worlds. The functions of the cemetery are transferred into the earth giving a naturalness like that of burial. The awkward space between the two churches has given its place to a lake, through which this intermediate stage is captured, the passage from one side to the other, in a space where the seasons leave visible traces, as the sense of the passing time, is one of the most vivid elements of the cemetery. Through the gesture of immersion, the visitor crosses the lake and is led to the central patio. The question of burial is reinserted into the urban fabric and creates a space where mourners can come to terms with loss.

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