Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto

Cementerio ASIAIN

Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz

CEMENTERIO ASIAIN

Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto

AREA
157.59 m²

LOCATION
Spain

YEAR
2012

CATEGORY
Cemetery

Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz

Text description provided by architect.

The Town council of Asiain, a small community located in the municipality of Olza, proposed a simple program when decided to build an extension for the old cemetery.

Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz

An open air area containing the burial niches and a side construction with the autopsy room and a storage unit.

The limited dimensions of the cemetery and the inexistence of a covered space to provide shade and shelter from the harshness of weather, encouraged to transform the new access into a small pavilion.

Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz

A prismatic volume, link between the old and the new area, not only used as a roofed platform but also as a module containing the indoor program.

This new element is made of concrete that, aside from functioning as a building element, provides a sober finish to the surfaces.

Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz

The main fachades has been conceived as a free-flowing latticework built with rectangular steel hollow sections prime and painted.

The access is through a large door constructed with the same metallic elements.

The autopsy room and the storage room are bounded with light sandwich panels in a soft grey colour.

Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz

Reducing the existing wall between the old cemetery and the new extention to 1,50 meters allowed a visual and even a physical connection at the end of the plot.

The intervention finalizes with gravel paths and the relocation in the access module of an old renaissance baptismal font.

Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz


Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz
Cementerio ASIAIN
© Berta Buzunariz


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Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto
T +34 620 740949
Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto
C. Yanguas y Miranda, 3, 31002 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain