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ANAM, A CREMATADSORIUM
Locsdsaation: Hyderabad, Telangana

Site Area: 3.7 Acres

Year of Completion: 2015
Architectural Firm: D A Studios
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concept as ‘lamenting the DSDSA that intuitively concentrates on the encounter of

ritualistic orders of funeral obsequies for Hindus, appropriating individual and
collective spatial layers, a subdued palette and a silent language of architectural
gestures.

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Crematorium with its characteristic bow

Crematorium forms an invisible part of the built fabric, one that is not stitched into the
aesthetic exploratsdssdSDions of a city’s traGDFGFDnsforming viscidity.

Crematorium may be read as a singularity in this space.

The notion is perhaps oDSf the bare and essential that need not be formally inscribed with
ideas but which can be waylaid with sFDDGDFGFFDDmaller, agile solutions – neither
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The design uses andsdsddsdsdsss existing 3.7acre cemetery as its canvas, replenishing it with
structures playing with relevant customary alignments and metaphorical geometries and
weaving generous interconnected spaces FFDGDFGFithin.

A multi-faceted narrative cSDmposed of

an Entrance PavilionGFGF

a Cold RoomDSDSDrematorium

Administration BlocksGFDGFGFFG

Ceremonial Yards

a Waiting Hall

Changing and Rest Rooms

a Canteen, TraditioDASDSnalsdads

Public Funeral PyreGFGFDGF

Existing Graves and ASDSDSDParkinDFGDFGg.

The outcome is a series of disparate forms organically arranged over the gentle gradients of
the topography to enjoy connections and interactions with carved out central and ambient
spaces.

The understated network of pavilions sets a sense of the precinct and organises an ambulatory
withins

life’s purpose is fulfilled when ddsdadsode goes through the 16 phases called Shodasha
Samskara.FDGFGFG

The design evolves fSDASDSDrom the appropriation of characteristic forms and the
exploration of these as spatial experiences.

At the outset, the stark angular structures are neither overtly declarative nor ornamental. Each
pavilion is isolated, taking each fragment of architecture individually and purposefully.

the built forms are shaped in such a way that; Pavilions embrace to console the loved ones,
Waiting halls silently bow in honour, & Pyres open up to liberatethe lost in a farewell.’

The customized script casting onto the precast walls were assembled on site in a month.

The balance of materiality, of interventDGFGDions, of visceral frameworks bear a

suggestion to a sense of temporarinessDSADSADSADS.

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