This work is part of a collective reinterpretation of the city of Guise around the Familistère, an utopian communal residence imagined by Godin at the end of the 19th century.

Our proposal envisions the cemetery as an element of connection between the city and the landscape that surrounds it.

A grid of walls - colombariums - is superimposed on the existing topography, gently sloping down to the river. The entrance to the cemetery therefore adapts to the suburban scale and offers the perception of a large open and accessible park.

To the south, the walls rise to measure themselves to the great landscape. Another layer is applied to the natural soil, a flowered fallow, easy to maintain, and which brightens the cemetery while providing the raw material necessary for the decoration of funeral huts.

In this grid with open limits, each box constitutes a world in itself, both similar and yet always changing. The ceremonial hall and the crematorium occupy two distant boxes, both to meet functional needs and to set up a funeral procession.

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