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Extension of Valfabbrica cemetery

Extension of Valfabbrica cemetery
Alessandra Chemollo

A space for the Memory and Meditation

The enlargement of  cemetery in Valfabbrica, an ancient city of medieval origin located in Umbria, Italy, is a project system closes towards the exterior and opens towards the interior of the existing complex, mediating the tombs with a loggia punctuated by large diameter columns, so as to make them perceived as a spatial device capable of functioning as a threshold that defines the sacredness of space.

photo_credit Alessandra Chemollo
Alessandra Chemollo
photo_credit Alessandra Chemollo
Alessandra Chemollo
photo_credit Alessandra Chemollo
Alessandra Chemollo

At the center of the system there is a space of relationship between the outside and the inside, a sort of chapel of the sacred landscape where you can pause, meditate and become aware of the archaic values of nature. In this building the natural light  becomes space and symbol, metaphor of the relationship with the divine.

photo_credit Andrea Dragoni
Andrea Dragoni
photo_credit Andrea Dragoni
Andrea Dragoni
photo_credit Andrea Dragoni
Andrea Dragoni

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