OUArchitectural ProjectsYear · 2023
OUSIA - Columbarium
A columbarium project for Riga, Latvia. Cast concrete chambers arranged around an open court - a place to remember without ornament.
OUSIA was designed for an international competition in Riga. The programme is a columbarium for a community cemetery in the north of the city. Our scheme reads as a single ring of dark, ribbed concrete chambers around an unprogrammed gravel court - a place that resists being decorated. Niches are slotted along the inner face, lit from above through narrow skylights that mark each compartment.
Scope
- Columbarium
- Memorial
- International
- Category
- Architecture
- Year
- 2023
- Location
- Riga, Latvia
