Starting Points and Creation of Auxiliary Software for Designing Cemetery Complexes Relevant to the Current Needs of Society in the 21st Century in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The main topic of the published research is the design of cemeteries in the context of social change in the 21st century in the Czech Republic. This is complex presentation of the principles of designing cemeteries and their auxiliary buildings. To this end, individual component researches were carried out, which captured the development of cemetery structures and crematoria in the Czech lands since the so-called Josephine reforms. At the same time, data were obtained from existing and historic cemeteries and buildings that have undergone a period of transformation over the last 100 years. The main output is a developed program called “HOK” in the MS Excel environment, which summarizes all the principles of research in the design of cemeteries and operations of the ceremonial hall or crematorium. The program’s entire assembled environment is customized to be user-friendly and to provide practical designing benefits. The article introduces the key points of the research results and related analyses, and at the same time presents working with the newly developed software and its possible implementation in design practice focused in this article to the cemeteries.