• Erik Gunnar Asplund (draughtsman)
• Erik Gunnar Asplund (architect)
• Erik Gunnar Asplund (archive creator)

Sections 8 to 12 and elevations for a lavatory for the Woodland Crematorium, Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden

1 March 1937

- Section 8 is for the Chapel of Faith, looking south, showing the Way of the Cross walkway, the waiting room and garden for the chapel, the ancillary rooms adjacent to and behind the chapel, the rooms below the main level and the driveway at the rear of the complex. Section 9 is for the columbaria, looking south, showing the stairs of the Way of the Cross walkway and the columbaria. Elevations 10-10 and 11-11 are for the east (rear) façades of the Chapel of Faith and section 12-12 is for the south façade of the ancillary rooms adjacent to the Chapel of the Holy Cross. There are two elevations for the west and north façades and section a-a for a lavatory and there is a sketch by the architect (?) for a pile at u.l. Section cuts 8-12 appear in ground plan DR2000:0007.

• contract drawing
• design development drawing

Pen and black ink with traces of graphite

sheet: 49.2 x 131.0 cm

DR2000:0009

• line drawings
• mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
• freehand drawing

• sections (orthographic drawings)
• exterior elevations
• sketch section

• exterior views
• interior views

- A pen and black ink boarder frames the drawings. Pinholes along the t. and b. There is tape and tape residue at l.r. covering areas where the support has a hole and tears. The drawing is folded in 3.

stamped, inscribed, numbered and dated - in purple ink, and by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, l.r.: with title and "153 / STOCKHOLM DEN [1a MARS 1937] / PROF E.G. ASPLUNDS ARKITEKTKONTOR" [text in square parenthesis indicates handwriting; [och] appears as an "o" with a line overtop; the number is a second stamp; the "a" in the date is in superscript] signed - by the architect, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, l.r.: with signature inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, throughout: with section names, measurements, a key, room names and scale stamped and dated - in purple ink, on the sheet, l.r.: "BYGGNADSENTREPRENADRITNING"; and by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink: "22-6-37." inscribed - by the architect ? in graphite, on the sheet, l.c.: with calculations numbered - by the dealer, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "GA84.133" [gallery inventory number for DR2000:0009] numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the sheet, l.r.: "20" [circled]; and "3"

Stockholm Suède

• architecture
• design d'intérieur