The present thesis deals with the creation of a memory park and a storage area for osteophytes and urns, as well as the reuse of the abandoned industrial complex of Oinopneuma in the city of Volos. The aim of this thesis is to critique the relationship between the city and the modern cemetery. A relationship that is now characterized by a particular separation, and a hiding of death from the neighborhoods and everyday life. Rather than remaining a marginalized space for the management of the dead, this new approach reintegrates death into the urban fabric, creating a space that preserves memory and enhances collective consciousness through direct accessibility. The design includes underground facilities for the storage of the remains, with a total capacity of 12,500 ossuaries, communicating with the surface of the park through four atriums, as well as open spaces with lush vegetation, water features and plazas framed by a system of free walls. The main building units are subject to a simple reuse and accommodate ritual, exhibition, recreational and administrative spaces as well as two towers that serve as urn storage and viewing areas. The removal of the fencing allows the site to be seamlessly integrated into the city, facilitating access and interaction between residents. The overall effect seeks to function as an analog archive of memory that annihilates the distances of the boundaries of the city of the living and the city of the dead, within the neighborhood and by extension the city.

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Supervisor: Gavrilou Evelyn

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