Landscape of Remembrance I arcari cimini architettura
Landscape of Remembrance
The extension of the Frisa cemetery is an opportunity to rethink the relationship between sacred spaces and ourselves. In these places we think of our departed loved ones, we walk in silence, perceiving the slightest noises and the most subtle scents, reflecting on our own lives, on the lives of those who have gone before us and those who will come after.
Thus, the project intends to amplify these perceptions, creating sober and minimal spaces, open towards the landscape and the horizon. The cemetery is par excellence a closed enclosure, separated from the outside world. A city of the dead that seems to want to hide and be forgotten.
© Beatriz Arcari
The new extension is conceived as a protected place but conceptually and perceptively open to the outside world, establishing a direct and contemplative relationship with vineyards and olive groves sloping down to the sea. The project is a path. A physical path, leading the visitor from the urban and anthropic space towards the panorama but also suggesting a spiritual path which leads to reflect on the passage from earthly life to death. The complex is based on the creation of an artificial landscape, an architectural space formed by two parallel and opposing fronts on a flat terrain close to a deep valley. In the first building to the west, brick partitions protect and draw shadows over the columbaria portico. These partitions bend to hide the graves from the street view, also creating a triangular ...
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