In the countryside of the central Italian region of Umbria lies Valfabbrica, a village of medieval origin. The municipal cemetery outside the historic center was recently enlarged by Andrea Dragoni. It closes towards the new high-traffic road from wh
KAAN Architecten was commissioned to design a visitor center for the Netherlands American Cemetery (NEAC), the only World War II U.S. graveyard on Dutch soil. The new building blends respectfully into the premises, partly sunken into the sloping hill
The municipal cemetery of Radom dates back to 1957 and is currently among Poland's largest. It was to curb this necropolis's rapid expansion into surrounding woodland that a columbarium, with its more compact burial form, was built. Combining prefab
The major enlargement of a cemetery has combined a grammar of classical references with a bare materiality to give shape to spaces intended for the rites of final farewells. Emerging from the ground as a bold urban symbol honoring the memory of the d
Stricter measures to maintain air quality and a decrease in the number of traditional burials led to the building of a new crematory, the design of which gives importance to the surrounding parkland. The facility is organized in concentric layers: fr
A small ceremonial space nestles under a pronounced pitched roof that rises high over the walls of the graveyard but engages in dialogue with their materiality. The spaces create a contemplative mood through the carefully choreographed entrance of li
The cemetery in Hsinchu, known as ‘the wind city’, is located high up on Xiangshan Hill, overlooking the sea and exposed to gusts crossing the Taiwan Strait. Protected by an introspective concrete skin, the main volume harboring the columbarium is fo
What Prussian howitzers did not manage to do has been achieved by fallow land. If the Great War temporarily deprived Lampernisse of its church, today’s exodus from the countryside has emptied the temple – reconstructed in the 1920s com’era – of faith
A crematorium is an important public building. It has, however, a conflicted attitude towards self-expression, torn between its technical content and its ceremonial character. To overcome this, the building is designed as a big inclined table, of whi
The Madrid firm Ábaton – established in 1998 by Camino Alonso, Ignacio Lechón, and Carlos Alonso – has in collaboration with Marta Hombrados designed this funerary monument in a cemetery located in the northwestern part of the Autonomous Community of
Under the sloping roof, public, administrative, and technical functions are distributed on a single floor, following a scheme of programmatic bands of variable width, in which the auxiliary zones separate the reception and waiting areas from the cere
Inagawa Cemetery is located on a steep site in the Hokusetsu Mountain Range of Hyogo Prefecture, approximately 40 kilometers north of the city of Osaka. Adapted to the contour of the terrain, the cemetery is laid out across terraces. A monumental fli
Located at the foot of Collserola, right where the mountain range meets the Rubí stream, the cemetery is conceived from the beginning as a group of terraced gardens scattered over the wooded hillsides. In this way, the recessed niches are designed as
The building organizes sensitively the areas for mourners and the functional areas of the crematorium. The public and operational accesses are separated, and there is a private and peaceful garden for visitors, for whom the technical rooms are hidden
The basic forms – a circle for the chapels and a rectangle for the exterior funerary rituals –, the traditional architectural elements – pedestal, beams, and pitched roof –, and the classical principles – symmetry and stacking – are the basis of this
The Gubbio Cemetery in Umbria has been enlarged with a dense scheme organized like a city whose open-air squares are inspired in the skies framed by the artist James Turrell.
Located on an uninhabited island to the south of Athens, the project begins with the superposition of atmospheric, light, climate, geographic, topographic and programmatic variables, based on a theoretical and historic knowledge of the program. The
El cementerio de Heimolen, en la localidad belga de Sint Niklaas se encuentra al sur de la autovía E34 que une Amberes y Gante. Situado entre árboles de gran porte y lomas escalonadas que rodean el cementerio por tres de sus lados, apenas se percibe
El río Guadiana separa, pero a la vez une Portugal y España a lo largo de más de 60 kilómetros desde la desembocadura del río Caia hasta la ribera de Cuncos. Al otro lado de la frontera lusa, la región del Alentejo se caracteriza por un tipo de colon
En el pequeño camposanto de una pedanía de Murcia, junto a un pinar protegido y donde la considerable pendiente en el terreno ha determinado una configuración escalonada, se planteó la construcción de un panteón con nichos y columbarios en un solar d
Located on a plain to the east of Munich, the new funerary complex was to house a morgue and a new cemetery for the different faiths that coexist nowadays in the German society. With neither a consolidated city in the area (in a future the area will
The cementery of Fürstenwald by no means intends to become a monument in memory of the dead, it simply wishes to be a place where human beings end their life cycle and return to nature, and where those related to the deceased may learn to come to ter
If the projects for parish churches find in the community liturgy the main argument through which to develop their own sense as architecture, the projects for cemeteries look for a more complex referent: where there is a tension between the sense of
Many good stories are the product of chance. As in a Borges tale, in the spring of 2014 Léa Namer stumbled upon the Sexto Panteón of the Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires: a maze of niches, stairs, and light wells under a meadow. After the katabasis
A decade after his series of dense urban landscapes juxtaposed with cemeteries of Hong Kong, the photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro presents images of graveyards in the Egyptian desert. Necropoli of Egypt captures surrealist compositions that reflec
Arnau Rovira shares his photographs of the municipal cemetery of Igualada (Barcelona), a work of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, completed in the 1990s. The rites of passage between life and death are acted out on a stage where architecture blends wi
El cementerio construido por Bernardo Bader en Altach, en el estado austriaco de Vorarlberg, en el extremo occidental del país y enclavado al pie de las cimas de los Alpes, atiende la demanda de la comunidad musulmana de esta pequeña ciudad de poco m
Silencio y extravío son dos elementos que configuran el alma veneciana. Quienquiera que se haya encontrado vagando, lejos de San Marcos, por el dédalo de calles y canales que forma Venecia, se habrá sentido invadido por una placentera sensación de ex
