In 2018 the Patra’s City Hall organized an architectural competition requesting the design of a Cremation Center, what would be the first one to be constructed in Greece. On this Occasion, the present thesis challenges the issue of cremation in Greece, trying to imagine a cremation ritual based on the existing burial ceremony. The working space is anticipated as a framework where a series of rituals will take place, starting from the meeting of the mourners in the parking area, the entrance tunnel, the ceremony halls, the columbarium garden, the furnace, and the refectory, where dinner will take place. The spaces that participate in the ceremony coexist with the technical building, where the machinery needed for the cremation is located, as well as the control rooms. The building is thus, split in two parts, that communicate through an elongated corridor. These structures enclose the core of the design, the memorial garden.
