Juan Isaza, a Colombian lighting designer, won first prize for his Sky Light cemetery design proposal. Sky Light envisions placing ashes in illuminated urns that hang from family trees, challenging the traditional idea of cemeteries as dark places. The design seeks to replace the idea of death as mysterious darkness. It proposes four lighting pavilions that use water, nature, and light to transform the cemetery into a bright space for family reunions. The urns containing remains are sealed and illuminated by LED technology with minimal energy use. They can be arranged by family trees or in constellations, each bearing a name and allowing repositioning near other family members.
Juan Isaza, a Colombian lighting designer, won first prize for his Sky Light cemetery design proposal. Sky Light envisions placing ashes in illuminated urns that hang from family trees, challenging the traditional idea of cemeteries as dark places. The design seeks to replace the idea of death as mysterious darkness. It proposes four lighting pavilions that use water, nature, and light to transform the cemetery into a bright space for family reunions. The urns containing remains are sealed and illuminated by LED technology with minimal energy use. They can be arranged by family trees or in constellations, each bearing a name and allowing repositioning near other family members.
Juan Isaza, a Colombian lighting designer, won first prize for his Sky Light cemetery design proposal. Sky Light envisions placing ashes in illuminated urns that hang from family trees, challenging the traditional idea of cemeteries as dark places. The design seeks to replace the idea of death as mysterious darkness. It proposes four lighting pavilions that use water, nature, and light to transform the cemetery into a bright space for family reunions. The urns containing remains are sealed and illuminated by LED technology with minimal energy use. They can be arranged by family trees or in constellations, each bearing a name and allowing repositioning near other family members.
immortal contribution to the “industry of death ”with his new perspective on cemeteries. The Bogota lighting designer won first prize in Design for Death Architecture in Texas, United States, with its Sky Light design. Sky Light consists of placing the ashes in illuminated urns, which hang from family trees and challenge the idea that Cemeteries should be shady and dark places.
His project seeks to erase the old
formula that death is a mystery, an unfathomable darkness. Sky Light; His proposal is entitled and it is, basically, a complex of four lighting pavilions where water, nature and light play to turn the notion of the cemetery into a place of reunion; a bright space.
The mortal remains are inserted into a sealed urn that
is then assembled inside another urn illuminated by led technology, where the energy consumption, of course, is minimal and of high durability. 'The bulbs' are organized by family trees or can be hung from the ceiling, in constellations. Each one bears the name of the deceased and can be easily repositioned to sit alongside friends or other family members.