The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art – Henry van de Velde and the Legacy of a Modern Concept

3 The mound with the Meditation Grove and the Chapel of the
Resurrection.
needed to understand it. Therefore, architecture superimposes images on reality
that are the media to reveal that death is not an end point, but a passage between
two realms. Thus, architecture itself acts as a door. Along a gentle slope, crossed
by a long lake, a high and narrow building is set. At the end of the entry stairway,
visitors find themselves in a high, dark, and introverted space: the Place of Death.
From here, through two semicircular ramps, they pass under the choir and organ
loft, to arrive at a long, narrow room: the Room of Life. The route then continues
outdoor toward the Colombarium, to end in the Temple of Memory. From here,
the mourners can walk toward the Wood of Memories, to collect themselves in
124 The Symbolic Dimension between Nature and Artifact