New Crematorium In Copparo
NEW CREMATORIUM IN COPPARO
Patrimonio Copparo
ARCHITECTS
Patrimonio Copparo
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Mauro Crepaldi
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Mezzadringegneria s.R.L.
COLLABORATORS
Simone pelliconi, lorenzo melandri
CREMATOR
Ciroldi s.p.a.
AREA
2000.0 sqm
PROJECT YEAR
2014
LOCATION
44034 Copparo FE, Italy
CATEGORY
Crematorium
Text description provided by architect.
The project is settled in Copparo, in a wide public area dedicated to an urban park for the whole community.
The area, very close to the center of the country, is connected to it through a typical tree-lined avenue that leads directly to the Cemetery.
The project is intended to be a part of this developing green park, seen as a place for relax and meditation.
For this reason, the building blends into the landscape: a pure and neutral volume suspended on the ground.
A minimal box that sits alongside lines of the most articulate existing cemetery.
THE BUILDING IS MADE BY THREE MAIN ELEMENTS:
-A reinforced concrete wall, bordering a dune of land as an extension of the park;
-A low area alongside the wall of reinforced concrete, dedicated to service activities; -A minimalistic box suspended on the ground.
This volume completely hides the crematorium, with its technical dust systems, the hall for ceremony, a "Garden of Remembrance" and offices.
A central courtyard garden, the "Garden of Remembrance", is a lighting patio in which everyone can isolate himself waiting to receive the urn that contains ashes of deceased.
Only three materials compose the whole project: reinforced concrete, glass and ceramic panels. These elements create vertical alternating strips of soft tones ranging from beige to gray.
