An Anthropologic museum

Set in an industrial gasholder site located near the city centre of Catania, the Walled Garden Crematorium introduces an urban landscape to the city centre for final farewells and the commemoration of the afterlife. Whilst tackling the growing demands for cremation facilities in Sicily, the project aims to pay tribute to those who have contributed to the industrial triumph the city once celebrated.

The design experiments with the feasibility of a funerary architecture in an urban fabric. At the same time explores the possibilities of transforming an abandoned gasholder structure into a memorial.

The concept of a walled garden relates to the existing building running along the perimeter of the site and the intention to create a moment in the city where the visitors can be solitary with their passed loved ones.