Jury evaluation: 

P.Volf - Bold, conceptual work presenting the vision of the cemetery of the future. It combines two counterpoised approaches--a detached technical approach, but also an artistic, even a spectacular conception. The project raises a number of questions that we are reluctant to deal with, which is perhaps the most important thing about it.

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M. Mitášová - This was the only project in the competition that offered a radical innovation of a proven functional and morphological urban-architectural type, in this case: the land of the last farewell. Burial and cremation are being alternated with the possibility of controlled biological decomposition of human remains into humus: fertile soil - nutrient soil of newly established meadow land and orchards within a biodiverse biocentre. It preserves the ceremony of the last farewell and offers a newly conceived experiential environment for it. At a time when people in the Netherlands are also buried in coffins from the fungi undergrowth ("ecological sarcophagus") and when the Czech mass media are asking an unanswered question--how to deal with the suppression of the bodies of pandemic victims in "metal-plastic bags" from which they must not be removed before burial--it is a chillingly urgent moral and urban-architectural problem. The project offers an alternative to our cities and groves of the dead: a landscape of roads and paths, boardwalks, buildings, meadows, and orchards. The question remains: what architectural tasks does it entail? Prof. Mitášová

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A. Mičeková - A conceptual design that offers us the spectacularity of images and visual projections countered by sophisticated--even bizarre--logistical solutions that was the most provocative and extensively discussed of the competition. It stirs the sensitive topic of cultural traditions, which raises many uneasy questions. However, it is a valuable contribution to further discussion.