Memory of project
In addition to the court of a cemetery, designed in late XIX century by Carlo Maciachini, the architect of Milan monumental cemetery, a place heavily modified and expanded in different phases, and today characterized by very heterogeneous parts, we designed a newextension located in an interstitial space between the north side of the ancient precint wall and a very close green hill.
The project aims to solve, in this fragmented place, through a silent architecture, the relationship between the different components of exhisting architecture and landscape. In this phase has been built the first part of a new complete expansion which runs along side the north wall.
The project presents itself with a wall made with rifling Carrara marble signed by vertical thin windows placed with a harmonic rhythm. The wall is like a sort of suspended beam that closes, in a new way the precinct’s fourth side.
Architecture is identified by to differents spaces both available for burials: one at the basement, with an open porch separeted by an interval of 2,5 meters from the existing cemetery wall. The opening is due to the very close positions fromthe old cemetery wall providing to give natural light to the porch.
Upstairs, the gallery is south faced, with a closed wall that filter the light using vertical cuts to design the light on the wall. This cuts, placed with different distance one each others are in relation with the regular rhythm of the trimmings on the ceiling.
Text.- Abdarchitetti.
CREDITS.-
Architecs project authors.- Camillo Botticini y Giulia de Appolonia (Abdarchitetti).
Architects collaborators.- Christina Tsompanoglou, Gerardo Ubeda Rueda, Paolo Dellana, Sahil Sharma, Studio Corna.
Technical team.- Franco Palmieri (Structural engineering), Planex Srl. (Mep engineering), Macchi Construzioni Srl. (Construction company).
Program.- Cemetery.
Client.- Comune di Induno Olona.
Surface.- 500 m².
Budget.- 660.000 €.
Project date.- 2011.
Construction date.- 2012.
Location.- Induno Olana, Varese. Italy.