Anteproyecto de un equipamiento funerario (sala de velaciones), para la Parroquia Ricaurte del Cantón Cuenca

Abstract

The present work of degree consists of designing, a level that the draft of a funeral room, at the Parroquia Ricaurte. The primordial basis for the creation of this design, was the search of the criteria and architectural strategy, studies in the theoretical framework, studies of cases, and urban analysis for the proposal. For them, it was important to know the principles on death, and how to treat it in a social environment, understanding that the spirit is moved to another dimension, while what, to the body of the dead, yields worship before burial; these aspects come accompanied by the grief felt by the relatives, for this reason the spaces created should express a sensation of peace, tranquility, love, hope; in this sense, what the incorporation of nature, expressed in vegetation, sky, light, rock, Earth, wind; their key elements in order to get this environment. Further, it was important to know the funeral rite procedure, which generally, the inhabitants of the Ricaurte Parish perform, understanding that housing is the home of the funeral and worship, so then later it will be transferred to the church and finally to the cemetery. From all these principles, we utilize a principle criteria called life - transition - death; in which, in the accomplished draft, they indicated the spaces for life, where they are accomplished the different activities; spaces of transition, and finally spaces for death, where they will accomplish the funeral. In this way, the room of the funeral, has spaces that receive and serve to the living, just as they serve as spaces to give worship to the dead.