Moulds as motives appear in multiple Imre Makovecz designs.

Hills or moulds (the name of the village of Árpádhalom literally means Árpád’s mould) often function as signs. They used to be cultic places, or still are.

Designing a funeral home on a hill, or underground, was a novel idea from Imre Makovecz. Like with most of his designs, he calls upon the heavenly beings to participate in our human lives, in this case in the farewell of the deceased.

The inside of the funeral home is thus made of bare bricks in the style of local, Great Plain architecture, recalling the dome of the sky above us, while the outside with its headstones recalling our old cemeteries and cultic places.

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