Final projects
AETERNUM ? New face of columbarium
Design, MA diploma project
Annotation
Aeternum is a new type of columbarium. The urns of the columbarium are spherical and are set into reflective glass which represents the imaginary boundary between this world and the world after. The main idea of this project is an imaginary division of a man into the body and the soul. This is the reason why the urn is devided by glass in 2 halves. The hemisphere emerging from the glass serves for storing the human ash, the socond one behind the glass represents the second intangible half of a man. There is a mirror placed behind the semi-permeable glass. There are 2 reflective surfaces opposite each other and that is the reason the bottom hemisphere is infinitely reflected. This creates a feeling of hope - the soul didn't pass away and exists in thoughts of the relatives and maybe not only there. Who knows if death is really the last thing...