Estudio Carme Pinós, SLP

Igualada Crematorium

Igualada Crematorium
© Jesús Arenas

IGUALADA CREMATORIUM

Estudio Carme Pinós

BUDGET
INDUS Ingeniería y Arquitectura SA

EPC ARCHITECT
Samuel Arriola

COLLABORATORS
Elsa Marti, Jeanne de Bussac

STRUCTURE
Manuel Arquijo i Associats

INSTALLATIONS
INDUS Ingeniería y Arquitectura SA

MODELS
Estudio Carme Pinós

INFOGRAPHICS
Estudio Carme Pinós

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jesús Arenas

AREA
252 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Igualada, Spain

CATEGORY
Crematorium

Text description provided by architect.

The project responds to the desire to integrate us into the cemetery without distorting the great poetics emanating from it.

The crematorium located on the top of a hill that covers the chapel and services, so that from the cemetery does not perceive the new building but, instead, we perceive the atmosphere and beauty of the cemetery.

Igualada Crematorium
© Jesús Arenas
Igualada Crematorium
© Jesús Arenas

The main idea of the project has been to gently understand the situation implied by the program.

Our position has been to relate to nature by creating a dialogue between the visitors and the distant landscape that can be seen from the windows of the building.

It also responds to this will the slightly elevated location of the crematorium, located just above a set of aromatic plants.

Igualada Crematorium
© Jesús Arenas
Igualada Crematorium
© Jesús Arenas

We intend to give the feeling of being on a different plane to the one where the everyday lives and that relates to life.

Although it could be considered a purely technical building, we wanted to endow it with all the poetics that the state of mind of those who come to this space requires.

Igualada Crematorium
© Jesús Arenas
Igualada Crematorium
© Jesús Arenas

We used materials that link the building to the cemetery. On one hand, concrete, a predominant material in the cemetery, gives the crematorium a more sculptural character and, instead, the ceramic enclosure gives it a less monolithic and more welcoming dimension.


Igualada Crematorium
Ground Floor Plan
Igualada Crematorium
Roof Plan


Igualada Crematorium
Elevation
Igualada Crematorium
Elevations A/B/C


Igualada Crematorium
Sections A/B/C
Igualada Crematorium
Site Plan

Estudio Carme Pinós, SLP
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