The crematorium by Carme Pinós stands on a hill above the cemetery of Igualada. Hidden from the cemetery, integrated in the nature above an aromatic flowers field the crematorium aims to generate a proper atmosphere to allow an intimate farewell.
Its sculptural form is nourished from the conventional funeral materials, mixing a predominant concrete structure and ceramic finish.
Project description by Estudio Carme Pinós
The project responds to the desire to integrate into the cemetery without distorting the great poetics that emanates from it.
We are located on the top of a hill that covers the chapel and services, so that from the cemetery does not perceive the new building but, instead, we perceive the atmosphere and beauty of the cemetery.
The main idea of the project has been to understand with delicacy the situation that the program implies. Our position has been to relate to nature by creating a dialogue between visitors and the distant landscape that can be seen from the windows of the building.
Also responding to this will the slightly elevated location of the crematorium, located just above a set of aromatic plants. We intended to give the feeling of being on a different plane to the living and dead.
Although it could be considered a purely technical building, we wanted to endow it with all the poetics of those who come to this space.
Materials which link the building to the cemetery have been used. On the one hand, concrete, a predominant material in cemeteries, which gives the crematorium a more sculptural character and, counterwise the ceramic enclosure gives it a less monolithic and more welcoming dimension.
