Roques Blanques Cemetery, El Papiol
Batlleiroig- Typologies Cemetery Religious / Memorial
- Date 1981 - 1985
- City El Papiol (Barcelona)
- Country Spain
- Photographer Jordi Surroca
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 retaining walls attached to the slopes to form terraces, adapted to the topography of the place by means of a versatile geometry at ground level, and that in section forms groups of two or three heights depending on the slope. Across from these walls with the niches, a pergola covered with ivy, jasmine, and wisteria plants creates a more private and shaded enclosure while at the same time contributing to an overall language for the whole. The rest of the terrace, conceived as a garden, is planted with local species such as oak or pine trees, to extend and blend with the surrounding woods, adding typically Mediterranean garden trees such as palms, planes, cedars, and so on. The groups of niches are connected to one another by a path that stretches over the trace of the old tracks and goes around the whole property, offering visitors all the possible points of view over the surrounding landscape and with this, a broad geographical knowledge of the place.
Arquitectos Architects
Batlle i Roig Arquitectura
Enric Batlle, Joan Roig, Olga Tarrasó
Colaboradores Collaborators
Lluís Roig (arquitecto técnico quantity surveyor)
Promotor Developer
Corporación Metropolitana de Barcelona
Superficie Area
560.000 m²
Fotos Photos
Jordi Surroca/Gael del Río