Bagnolo Mella Cemetery (Phase 1)

Bagnolo Mella Cemetery (Phase 1)

In relation to a now completed cemetery enclosure, the expansion intervention takes the form of an autonomous structure connected to the existing one through a small water courtyard. An elongated courtyard layout concludes with a loggia, serving as a distinctive element in the agricultural landscape. The relationship with the sky and the traditionally nineteenth-century design of the city of death generates an object that is particularly successful due to an unusual and skillful ambiguous choice. The exterior is a silent building that establishes a new exchange with the languages of the Iberian Peninsula, while the interior still borrows from the Roman domus a elongated sequence of atrium-peristyle-garden areas faintly identified, horizontally, by the reflections of shadows, the lawn, and the water mirror.