This diploma thesis proposes the design of a crematorium in Athens, Attica, within both a conceptual and constructional approach. By bringing together primary elements such as rock, vegetation, intense land contours, sea, light, air, contributing to the creation of a mystagogic, yet not religious, space I envisage a building/non-building, a garden within a garden.
Lastly, I propose the passage of the urn to the island of Patroclus, that lies across from this place without a specific address between the settlements of Legrena and Thymari. But instead of being placed in just another cemetery, by the use of a biodegradable urn, a tree can be planted and be referred to as a mark for the deceased. A vivid reminder of this man and not yet another grave. So the transition becomes also symbolic - the passage, across the sea, to the island bearing the name of the man whose funeral was the first written description of cremation by Homer - to a garden of remembrance.
