The main subject of this diploma project is the expansion of the cemetery of the Holy Church Zoodochou Pigis in Trikala, as well as the design of the infrastructure relative to burial ceremonies. A chapel, a café, a flower shop and an administration office.
The Zoodochou Pigi church was built in 1932 and was expanded in 1961. In 1987, a much bigger cruciform church was constructed in the northern side of the old one and it was inaugurated in 2005. The cemetery was located right behind the sanctuary of the church up until 1932 and since then it is relocated in the southern side of the church.
A chapel is a small Christian church which includes a sanctuary, a particularly holy space of main churches and cemeteries among others. It is used for the service of special occasions consisting of a family or a small group of people.
The infrastructure enclosed within the walls follow an axis that separates the cemetery and the church from the rest of the urban grid. A threshold between two worlds. This diploma project aims to create the conditions of remembering of the dead as well as the design of spaces that favor the isolation of the visitors for mourning of the dead and recollection.