Crematory is a place for cremating
corpses in a furnace.As Buddhists belief of incarnations,
the souls remain forever and will re-born again in a new
body, while physical bodies decay by time. In a funeral,
the body will be burnt, therefore, the building for Buddhist
funeral needs a giant oven to complete the ceremony.
In 1984 and 1986,
Thais lost their beloved and faithful monks, Master Khao
Analayo and Master Van Sujino. To build a temporary crematory
is a very difficult task due to the sites are in remote
area and the management of the project has to be very well
discipline. This is because the projects are temporary crematories
and the funeral date were fixed as a deadline and can not
be postpone. Therefore, the project had to be complete before
the deadline but if it is finished much earlier than the
schedule, the building will be damaged and ruined easily
since it made of non-durable material.
The process and method
of both sites are quite similar, only the design and the
small details of decoration are different. The design of
each crematory suits each Master perfectly according to
their characters.
Since it was anticipated
that thousand of thousand people would join the funerals,
the structures of the building have to be strong enough
to support numbers of people. Plywood is the main material
since it is low cost and easy to work with and it is non-durable,
it is suitable for these non-permanent projects. All the
architectural ornaments and decoration made of double layers
of stencil plywood and painted in copper red and gold colour
for Master Van and the shade of white and gold for Master
Khao. On the funeral days, the crematories were glowing
in the dark amidst the darkness of the deep wood, impressed
all the people who joined the ceremonies.
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