Gate to the City of the Departed — Funeral Home in Batowice
The form of the blue building of the Funeral Home evokes heavenly associations. It is a light, elongated, pavilion-like structure with curving surfaces of the walls, detached from the ground. Narrow slits are introducing the light into the interior. Glass is connected to the raw concrete elements here. Above the stone “stream” that slithers along the elevation, there is a footbridge do the entrance of the offices of the cemetery administration. Fully glazed front wall provides an entrance to the Cemetery Chapel that is a metaphysical gate to another dimension. In its poetical vision of space, the structure is the first meeting point with the cemetery, place that can be call the City of the Departed. Expressive, Deconstructivist form accentuates the powerful atmosphere o the place.