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Cemetery Extension

CEMETERY EXTENSION

A6A

Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis

ARCHITECTS
A6A

PHOTOGRAPHS
Agnès Clotis

AREA
2517 m²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
France

CATEGORY
Sablonceaux, Cemetery

Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis

Text description provided by architect.

The Sablonceaux cemetery extension project represented for us the first opportunity to intervene on a protected site.

A way to reaffirm our point of view on an located architecture, able to jostle and surprise while respectfully insert in its context.

Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis
Cemetery Extension
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An architecture that is both touching and expressive. The project is located at the foot of the Abbey, in the extension of the old cemetery.

On a sloping ground towards a river, in a close relationship with the territory, it seeks to integrate delicately without modifying the topography.

Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis
Cemetery Extension
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Thus, the new cemetery can be read like a line in the landscape, a new stratum. The constructed elements come to underline the Abbey.

The use of “site concrete” constitutes the link between our intervention and the existing one. We want to establish a continuity in the materials, based on their expressive truth.

Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis
Cemetery Extension
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Go for the limestone where the stones of the Abbey could be extracted. Use it differently, in a contemporary way. Draw inside the memory of the place.

These walls mark the new entrance and invite you to contemplate from a new angle the monument. A course is defined around it, accentuated by the declivity of the field.

Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis
Cemetery Extension
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Inside, the columbarium rises in front of us, hiding and revealing the existing wall, in a game of depths and rhythms that highlights the present stone, the passing time.

An elevated platform, like a promontory on the landscape, establishes the transition between the old cemetery and its extension.

Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
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Inside it that the Jardin des Souvenirs takes place. It becomes a place of singular meditation, held by the expressive force of the concrete sails.

A privileged place to contemplate the landscape running away, seek a horizon in the Charente plain, a position to think about the paths traveled.

Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
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Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis
Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis
Cemetery Extension
© Agnès Clotis


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