Designed by JFA ? Estudio de Arquitectura, The project houses the New Tanatorio of Sancho de Ávila in Barcelona. Located on the same block as the current building with the same name. The Funeral of Sancho de Ávila opened its doors in 1968, being in its day the first to introduce in Spain the concept of wakefulness outside the family home, and marking a change in the way of watching the deceased. 50 years later, the challenge was to design a building that would become a new model of a morgue adapted to the present and future needs of the sector, to become a benchmark in the city.
Photography: Adrià Goula
Framed in a location with particular constraints, where existing basements must be conserved, the presence of train tracks that cross the site in the transversal direction and are covered by a protective slab that raises the level of use and presence of a public car park below ground level, in front of Calle Zamora, which serves the new building. An intervention is proposed with two volumes that house the differentiated uses of the same complex and are articulated based on the urban plot and the creation of an interior plaza that becomes the main axis of the project.
This public space generated inside the plot absorbs the two volumes, relates them and generates a program that goes beyond internal use. It is a new urban park that integrates the buildings, manages the flows and frames the whole in the urban environment. The new interior of the Tanatorio is 1.50 meters from...