Among redwoods

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Among redwoods

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We offer a final resting place to our loved ones loved ones, family and friends surrounded by nature. The benefits obtained from the sale of spaces in the cemetery, will be transformed in donations that help finance projects of Conservation and restoration. Like the redwoods, the cemetery becomes another form of generate sap for the community.

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We offer a final resting place to our loved ones loved ones, family and friends surrounded by nature. The inspiration for this project arises through the Santa María de Toraya Foundation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of art and heritage from Cantabria. The benefits obtained from the sale of spaces in the cemetery, will be transformed in donations that help finance projects of Conservation and restoration. Like the redwoods, the cemetery becomes another form of generate sap for their community, since, as an end Lastly, the SMT Foundation intends to generate culture and not business. In this way we will also inspire our children and grandchildren, with a goodbye that is part of something bigger than ourselves and that helps preserve the legacy that others left us. When you remember the life of someone you loved, Despite all the thousands of moments that can have spent with them, you will always remember after their death, their funeral and the time they were placed at his final resting place. The project aims to offer an "architecture for the living" where the farewell is backed by design that we have developed, hoping that somehow way be useful in these transits, which are sometimes cold and hard in inhospitable places, being obsolete in your design.

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Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability (including circularity) and how these have been met.
Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context

The A-8 motorway is a land road with a roadway and double direction, which extends from Bilbao through the Cantabrian coast, passing through Canabria to Galicia. It is the best way of communication of Cantabria with Vizcaya. Cantabria has not exceeded any of the values limit by current legislation within the scope of the air quality control network, however, future investments in this area They are necessary. It's not about looking for solutions, if not to design a strategy for a sustainable future for Cantabria. Place the wide graveyard garden, will help alleviate the problems arising of the traffic in this area cleaning of particles the air, at the same time it would serve to stop the noise pollution generated by traffic. The versatility of the garden cemetery project, provides a very important service to the community (with non-aggressive and developed constructions in as sustainable a way as possible), and at the same time, helps in the fight against climate change thanks to reforestation I would suppose the garden.THE IRRIGATION WATER IS INSURED, WITH PRACTICALLY A ZERO MAINTENANCE. ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY. The reuse of rainwater consists of collecting the rainwater, and after filtering it, store it in a tank for later use. This water will be incorporated with the help of a pump to an independent circuit for the irrigation system. Another interesting point are the ponds that some Sometimes they will be decorative, but no matter how small Sean, it's a watery world teeming with materialized life. in the most diverse forms that I know how tiny planktonic microorganisms are some of its inhabitants. RAINWATER COLLECTION, PONDS AND WATER FOUNTAINS The sound of water generates peace, giving us a feeling of tranquility Water is definitely a part. key to the design of this garden cemetery, we accompany you throughout the installations but also will be obtained from ecological resources, constant regeneration and investment in sustainability is the leitmotif.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience beyond functionality and how these have been met.
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Sequoias are one of the trees longest in existence. They can arrive to last between 1,200 and 1,800 years, for us a symbol of memory that will endure from the people who rest in the cemetery «Among redwoods ». What many people don't know is that they are trees that work as a team and form an exemplary community, which, surprisingly deep of its roots is lower than expected (being such tall trees), for So if a sequoia gets sick and needs sap for some reason, nearest trees provide him, reason for which they can only grow and develop good in a group When a society is able to structure itself to the point of reaching group excellence is because it is: mature, capable and self-sufficient as a collective.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of inclusion (equal opportunities, public participation, citizen engagement, co-design, universal design, accessibility, affordability, etc.) and how these have been met.
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NCLUSIVE ACCESSES AND SERVICES • Entre Secuoyas Cemetery will have services accessible and adapted providing greater wealth social and user experience. • Ramps on sidewalks and access to buildings will allow adequate mobility. • Sound signaling or simple images It will allow you to locate easily. • Vulnerable groups will be able to orient themselves with total freedom and at the same time orienting oneself with ease, promoting independence. • The services of the building will also be adapted for all.

The municipality lacks activities related to social inclusion, that is why there is also a need to create an open and inclusive space. The gardens of the garden cemetery offer a project offer social, environmental and community. OBJECTIVES Enable spaces within the garden cemetery for work with the environment, floriculture; accessible, community and inclusive. Generate spaces for inclusion, interrelation, learning common and coexistence between people with disabilities intellectual, reduced mobility, elderly, children etc.

Please explain how these three dimensions have been combined in your project.
Please highlight how this approach can be exemplary

Buying niches you will be paying for conservation and restoration of the heritage integrate in a nature project.  The integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions in the project are circular.

Please give information on the results/impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for

Visibility and education in values. 

Please explain how citizens and civil society were involved in the in the design and/or implementation of the project.
Please also explain the benefits that derived from their involvement.

Social workshops will be held within the activities within the graveyard.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the project addressed by providing local solutions

Our goal is to bring innovative and thought-education so we can work with them to help improve confront the idea of ​​death. The idea of helping heritage when we are leaving this world is also the main goal.

Please highlight the innovative character of the project as compared to mainstream practices in the field of the project.

Responsible actions for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society, for present and future generations, while respecting cultural diversity. This project is innovating in achieving sustainable change in this community, mainly catholic they have a obsession with graveyard but not understanding as a place for rest in peace, enjoying nature, have activities inside and give a new aspiration life.

 

 

 

Please explain to the potential of transferring the projects’ results or learnings to other interested parties and contexts.
Please provide clear documentation, communication of methodology and principles in this context.

Responsible actions for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society, for present and future generations, while respecting cultural diversity. This project is innovating in achieving sustainable change in this community, mainly catholic they have a obsession with graveyard but not understanding as a place for rest in peace, enjoying nature, have activities inside and give a new aspiration life.

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