First time winner of this of this prize is Federico Gonzalez Leone from Tucaman, Argentina, for his project which he describes as 'existential geometry'.

New category for 2006 was the Premier Award Total Concept category Third Prize, sponsored by Blockleys Brick Ltd of Telford, Shropshire.

First time winner of this of this prize is Federico Gonzalez Leone from Tucaman, Argentina, for his project which he describes as 'existential geometry'.

Ian Cook, Group Technical Director of Blockleys Brick Ltd presented Federico with his prize of £150, the specially created Blockleys Brick Ltd trophy and a certificate.

DESCRIPTION

I believe in a kind of architecture made of transverse ideas to the project. A continous intertwining of mentals snapshots in wich contradiction and dispersion are positives values because its reality. I don’t believe in uniques ideas, neither on pararell ones, because the conviction that, this, leads to failure as consequence of the restriction of imagination and reason.

It exists something that exceeds the barrier of material world: memory. The complete existence lies in this inmaterial and complex place wich ransom uncertains moments, feelings, images, sounds. A cemetery must be built of memory more than materia; that intricate mental construction in wich the unconscious displace, perhaps architecture must explore its infra-worlds and free of opression the conscious, wich mecanically looks for order, clarity, simplicity; evassion of daily hells, repression of existencial chaos, intellectual anaesthecia for the searching of sense to born and die. In this project I’ve tried to approach to the creation of a thing I’ve called “existencial geometry”, a combination of materials that generate unrepeatable forms (because its precise material condition at the moment of its construction, or because of the quasi-alotropic behaviour with its enviroment). This forms are just consequence of the psicological and emotive aspects of the program, as well as the ideas that appear in the precise moment of conception of each one.

Cemetery allows to take this idea to the extreme. I propose a cemetery just of cremations following ambiental guidelines; on it, the most important spaces are the urn reception room and the place where it will be deposite: a private garden whose limits are insinuated by concrete’s winding plaques in wich are encrusted plasma’s screens that, by effect of a sensor, reproduce images of the decease’s life when a person arrives to the memorial.

Territorial interventions implicate to assume a huge social responsibility, the place I’ve choose it’s neighbour of a natural reserve, higly forested, covered of dense vegetation. The windings plaques of concrete in the memorials takes form by avoiding the trees. I propose a sector of the cemetery as a public park where the atmosphere invites to meditation. A monumental entrance divide both sectors. As in the painting of Xul Solar: “Lu muere se lu puerta for vida e viceversa” (dead it’s the door of life and viceversa).

Contact:

Federico González Leone - Lego

Inca Gamilaso ISZA

San Miguel de Tucaman 4000

Tucuman

ARGENTINA

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