Islamischer Friedhof  - Austria
Bernardo Bader

Biography

Bernardo Bader is an architect from Krumbach, the Austrian region of Bregenzerwald, with the office currently based in Dornbirn, Austria. He studied architecture at the Innsbruck Technical University. After receiving his Diploma Engineer degree in 2001 he founded his own architectural office. His work investigates how architecture can be embedded in regional building culture and based on local architectural grammar. His projects bear witness to brilliance of handcraft, deep care of tectonic detail and sensitivity to the local context. 

In 2013 he received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Islamischer Friedhof 

Architecture: Bernardo Bader Architects | Dornbirn 
Team: Sven Matt | Dornbirn 
Art oratory: Azra Aksamija | Boston | USA 
Process: Dr. Eva Graherr I Dornbirn 
Site manager / project control: Thomas Marte | Dornbirn 
Structural engineer: MerzKley Partner | Dornbirn 
Photograph: Adolf Bereuter | Dornbirn, Marc Lins | New York, Nikolaus Walter | Feldkirch 
Structure: Concrete 

The design of a cemetery is based on the beliefs and their funeral rites, which in turn say a lot about the  particular understanding of nature and social relations. This fact should also be shown clearly in the new cemetery project for Muslims in Vorarlberg. Regardless of religious orientation, is the two forms of Christian and Muslim burial site in common, that the  cemetery was the first garden. As the real ‘Urgarten’ it is characterized by the cultivation of its soil and its  clearly defined from surface.  When creating a garden for the first time a piece of land is bounded and clearly delineated against the  wilderness.  The aim of the design is a very open and clearly laid out the overall concept. A delicate weave of wall  panels in various heights frame the graves and the built-structure. The 'finger-like' grave-scale fields allow  implementation in stages, - the grave fields extend into the pristine landscape.  The planned grave fields are bordered by low walls and form separate rooms. They are each divided into  a compact area for organized grave burials and a small room with sitting-bench.  The range of the required facilities are developed from the topic out of the wall.  The result is a total investment of grave fields appropriate header.