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Moksha On Higher Ground

Could multi-purpose highrise cemeteries be the way to go?

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Moksha On Higher Ground
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If you can’t go six feet under, the only way to go is upward. Architects Yalin Fu and Ihsuan Lin, as part of an academic exercise backed by the Remaking of Mumbai Federation, have proposed “Moksha Towers”—a highrise cemetery for Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Parsis. In the plans, each denomination was allocated a different level, which can be accessed via separate elevator shafts, with the ground floor acting as a common, open entrance space complete with plants and flowers.

All four traditions are accommodated; with “sky gardens” for Muslim burials, ramps that ascend upward to “the heavens” going to the burial area for Christian services, cremation facilities and a river-like water body for Hindu funerals and a tower of silence atop the building for Parsis, with solar panels (for quicker decomposition) and places for vultures to perch. “The burial spaces would still be temporary, but a vertical cemetery would free up ground space. By incorporating green spaces within the building, it would also aid in combating pollution,” explains Yalin Fu.

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