Biophilic Transformation Crematorium / Doepel Strijkers ArchitectsSave this picture! Peter TijhuisHospitality ArchitectureZaandam, The NetherlandsArchitects: Doepel Strijkers ArchitectsAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:2000 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:Peter TijhuisMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. PC Uitvaart, a funeral organization in Amsterdam, saw the need for a disruptive transformation of its real estate in response to evolving market dynamics, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. As Amsterdam's multicultural population continued to grow, so did the diversity in preferences for funerals and memorial services. To meet these changing needs and provide a more personalized experience for customers from all cultures, PC Uitvaart sought the expertise of Doepel Strijkers architects. The architects were commissioned to create a brand book for all PC Uitvaart buildings and to implement this generic brand book in the first specific location in Zaanstad. The aim is to transform the existing crematoria in such a way that not only increases the diversity of ceremonies but also enables multifunctional use of the facility. The redefinition of PC Uitvaart buildings by Doepel Strijkers represents a bold and visionary response to the changing market. By integrating nature, technology, and flexible design principles, it becomes possible to provide a more inclusive, personal, and adaptable space for ceremonies and commemorations for all cultures, setting a new standard in the funeral industry.Save this picture!Save this picture!The wooden structure is a carrier of identity and rituals - Doepel Strijkers analyzed the untapped potential of the existing crematoria. Their ambitious approach resulted in a concept that gives a new identity to the outside and inside of the building, connects indoor and outdoor spaces, uses nature as a carrier of the spaces, and integrates technology to enable customers to create tailor-made rituals for their loved ones.Save this picture!The main intervention on the outside of the building consists of the addition of a wooden structure around the building and the intensification and thematization of the landscape adjacent to this wooden structure. The wooden structure is designed to strengthen the connection between inside and outside, to eliminate the annoying logistics of multiple traffic streams around and in the building and to create a ritual route from the building to the cremation area and cemetery. This architectural element serves both functional and aesthetic purposes. It gives identity to the series of buildings of PC Uitvaart. It also allows multiple entrances on different sides of the building, serves as sun protection, and provides a framework for enclosing and theming outdoor gardens and ceremony spaces. This wooden structure enables a seamless transition between the gardens and the interior because the outdoor space can be functionally connected to the indoor space. Facades are opened where they meet the gardens for accessibility and views of the landscape and the changing seasons. For the development of the landscape with the thematic gardens and the indoor greenery, the office has entered into a collaboration with the landscape architecture office Madma from Rotterdam.Save this picture!Save this picture!Integration of nature - The architects seamlessly integrated nature into the design of the crematorium. Indoor greenery in various forms is strategically placed and not only provides comfort, but also serves as functional elements, such as seating and spatial partitions.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Zaandam, The NetherlandsLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeMaterialWoodMaterials and TagsPublished on January 19, 2025Cite: "Biophilic Transformation Crematorium / Doepel Strijkers Architects" 19 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025572/biophilic-transformation-crematorium-doepel-strijkers-architects&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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Grand Theft Hamlet is a documentary film, kind of. Its also an experimental theater project. Its also a rough-and-ready feature-length machinima, made entirely in-game in Grand Theft Auto Online. Its also a slapstick comedy of errors about three friends trying to fill an empty period in their lives by staging a production of William Shakespeares Hamlet inside this chaotic online space. Its a strange, funny, and even poignant film that takes place in a dreamlike space between gaming and theater.In January 2021, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen were out of work and depressed. The U.K.s third COVID-19 lockdown had begun, and London theaters were shut again. Crane had been due to start a run as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on the West End, which would have supported his family for a year, but that chance was shot now. Oosterveen was single, rootless, and had just started trying to get back to work after losing his father to a long battle with Alzheimers.We were buggered, Cranes wife, filmmaker Pinny Grylls, who co-directed Grand Theft Hamlet with Crane, told Polygon.There was nothing to be done about the situation except play video games. Oosterveen, the gamer of the trio, showed his friend around Grand Theft Auto Online on PlayStation. Crane and Grylls hadnt played games since they were kids, but had bought a PlayStation for their son the year before, somewhat reluctantly. We argued about it, Grylls said.Crane initially had misgivings about GTA. You just think, Oh yeah, thats that one that is super violent, and theres no redeeming characteristics to it at all, he said. And then when I started playing it, I was shocked at how beautiful it was, and how fun it was, and how freeing it was to play, and how broad it was.Crane wasnt going in completely blind, though, and he wasnt purely killing time, either. He was aware of the role-play and machinima communities in gaming, and interested in exploring them as a performance space. I didnt quite know what we were going to do in there thought maybe we might just try and do some weird little YouTube skits or something like that, he said.Responding to this vague impulse, Crane and Oosterveen started capturing footage of their gameplay before they really knew what they were doing. Thats why, at the start of Grand Theft Hamlet, we can watch in real time as the pair stumble upon the Vinewood Bowl open-air theater in the hills of Los Santos, and hit upon the idea of performing Shakespeare there. Soon, they invited Grylls to join them in-game to document their efforts.At first, it seems like a joke, suggesting that any actor encountering a new space immediately envisions themselves standing there in front of people, reciting To be or not to be. And theres an obvious culture clash between Shakespearean tragedy and the crude violence and low-culture irreverence of GTA. The movie gets great comic mileage from rehearsals being interrupted by drive-by shootings and rocket-launcher accidents. But the trio also felt they were taking an unconventional route back to Shakespeares roots.Grylls said Crane laid it out: [Sam] said to me, it was probably similar to what it wouldve felt like to do Shakespeare 500 years ago in an irreverent space, where you were at the Globe and people were half-listening, and they were probably going to throw apples at the actors if they didnt think they were any good, and someone went off with a prostitute, and then somebody had a fight. You had to maintain the attention of the audience. It was really quite hard. [For us] the liveness of that kind of challenge was fresh and exciting and funny.A lot of theater, and especially Shakespeare, has this hushed reverence around it, Crane said. And it was really refreshing to find a space where none of that existed, and it was just rough and raw and kind of funny and violent.Crane and Oosterveen assembled a small company of misfits to act in their Hamlet. But like many small theater troupes, they also attracted some oddball hangers-on that contributed to the chaotic energy of the production as it evolved from a stage show at the Vinewood Bowl to an immersive theater experience that would roam across the Los Santos map (on the back of a zeppelin, at one point).One of these hangers-on makes a particularly big impression in the movie. GTA player ParTebMosMir wears a green alien skin, recites the Quran at his audition, and runs security for rehearsals in a VTOL jet, gunning down disruptive elements from the skies. I should say, everyone seems to like ParTeb, and he comes across very well in the film, but I really want to make it clear that that guy was a nightmare to work with, Oosterveen said, displaying a bit of actorly impatience. To get him to do anything, anything, took hours and hours and hours.Theres this apocryphal story about [famed German playwright and director] Bertolt Brecht, who in one of his productions thought it was all going a bit too smoothly, Crane added. So he found this local drunk guy and just brought him onstage, and he had to just deal with it. So I think maybe ParTeb has something of that quality, the kind of rogue element, the bit of chaos that you put in just to shake things up a bit.Throughout the movie, ParTeb and others like him are surreally funny reminders of the weird context the actors put themselves in. Another reminder comes from the presentation of the footage, which is intentionally raw and unvarnished, with the games UI elements still visible. Explaining this decision, Grylls said simply, Its a documentary, its not a fiction film. But GTA Onlines on-screen alerts also provide an ironic meta-commentary during the performance of Hamlet (Hamlet_thedane killed King_Claudius) and a strangely poignant sense of what was going on beyond the actors experiment.Someone who got in touch with us said they were so moved by watching the film, and the constant thing coming up in the corner So-and-so has died this almost ticker-tape thing of death, Crane said. And how that was so redolent of the pandemic and seeing those news stories of the number of people who were infected and had died.In person or on a video call, anyway the trio seem like typical London theater-and-the-arts types. Crane looks like, well, a middle-aged Harry Potter. Grylls has short peroxide hair and a Day-Glo Def Leppard sweater. Oosterveen is wearing a Hawaiian shirt on a cold January evening. Their actorliness makes it tempting to suspect that some of the movies most dramatic moments, like an in-game row between Crane and Grylls, were staged. But while they admit they rerecorded a few lines of dialogue to clean up the audio, they deny setting up any events in the game just for their movie.The argument actually did happen, Grylls said. It happened in real life the day before because it was my birthday, and hed missed my birthday, and I said to him, when we went to bed, You are an arsehole, basically. And then in the morning I woke up and he was on the fucking game. So actually, that was real. I jumped into the game and I said, Where are you? Its 7:30 in the morning, youre already in this game, the only way Im going to talk to you is to go in the game. She said she was worried about Oosterveens obsessive game-playing, too, but he shrugs it off. I literally had no responsibilities, he said. I was full goblin mode.For all that Grand Theft Hamlet is a comedy of contrasts, the trio ended up with a feeling that video games and theater have a lot in common.I think that they are so similar, Grylls said. Think about it: They are live spaces where things unfold and anything could happen. And its about pretending to be something youre not.Gaming can often be a test of empathy, Oosterveen said. If youre playing a game and the lead character is nothing like you, it can be very interesting, because then you are seeing things from their perspective. [] I think a lot of people are actors without realizing it, because theyre playing Baldurs Gate 3, or theyre playing Mass Effect, and theyre basically making the same thought processes and choices that an actor makes.That element of chaos in the game, I think, is so inherently theatrical, Crane said. For me, I want to try and hold on to this when I go back and do theater normally. To try and keep an element of that absolute chaos and carnage. Because thats really fun and exciting.Grand Theft Hamlet is in theaters now.

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