Belvedere Gardens
Cultivating an emotional and spiritual atmosphere.
Overlooking the town of Salem, Virginia and the Appalachian Mountains to the northwest, this 2,500-crypt mausoleum is conceived as a landscape intervention atop a 110-acre memorial park. By emphasizing a physical and perceptual connectedness to the local and extended site, we hoped to create an enduring sense of place, which cultivates an atmosphere of emotional and spiritual reflection and underscores our relationship to nature.
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Mausoleum and garden
Market: Cultural
Location: Salem
Size: 2,500 crypts
Year Completed: 2004
APPROACH
The project is defined by three gardens: the Allee – a formal garden, which initiates the entry sequence and establishes the eastern boundary of the site; the Grove – an upper burial garden for ground interment; and the Sunken Garden – a lower garden framed by a crypt wall, niche wall, and five mausoleums.
