AMPLIAMENTO CIMITERO COMUNALE
Rovigo
Ampliamento Cimitero comunale | Rovigo |
Extension municipal graveyard | Rovigo
The project for the enlargement of the Rovigo’s graveyard has developed starting from a contest, announced in 2002, for the realisation and management in project financing of the municipal graveyard. The building, which dimensions are almost ml 63 for ml 140, shows itself as a single block characterized for a masonry fence. Inside it is organised in two levels with distribution corridors, which are provided with stairs or with a ramp towards the entry body. In the plan, the scheme is a courtyard divided in three smaller courtyards separated by a series of blocks for niches (loculi). The paths inside the new enlargement are developed through a perimetral internal trench and along perimetral external porches on the ground floor, they are placed at the first floor along the galleries, which are brought towards the inside courtyard, and loggias in correspondence of niches in battery turned towards the landscape. The paths on the ground floor that conduct to the niches (along the external loop of the courtyard) are covered by porches and by the cantilevered roof of the first floor. In a similar way also the paths on the first floor are covered by a light steel structure along the main gallery, towards the inside courtyard. Through the particular geometry of the entry’s facade that encloses the new offices and that defines the terrace on the first floor, it is possible to conduct the paths from the service area towards the entry to the new graveyard enlargement, determining a little but important covered area which will protect the visitors from the bad weather in winter and from the sun in summer, which indicate, in a symbolically way, the entry to the graveyard’s fence. This entry facade’s geometry, partly produced by the new block for the offices and by the upper terrace, determines a sort of visual cone that lead the paths towards the inside of the new complex, in continuity with the fence of the pre-existing graveyard. The covering structure, in the lightness of its conception and building, intends to be coherent with the possibility, that the place gives, of protecting the visitors through large cantilevered roofs which reunite themselves in the profile of the roof in the entry side. The realisation of the perimeter fence of the graveyard is realised in masonry blocks. The same material has been used for the external surface of the block that constitute the new entrance to the graveyard. In this way, along the west and east fronts the fence of the new graveyard is characterized for a superficial uniform mantle in masonry blocks to which correspond the clear surface of the plastered blocks of the niches in the first floor, which are divided by large loggias opened towards the outside of the fence. These fronts finish with the cantilevered roofs of the first floor towards the outside of the same fence. The west front is the facade of the new entry, which is different from the others in two ways: through the fence in masonry blocks that takes the dimensions and proportions of the volumes that delimits (mortuary rooms with the opening overlooking to the outside, offices, ramps and reception spaces); through the linear body of niches and the ossuary that divide the courtyard from the first field of burial, which is different from the other linear bodies. In fact this is characterized by a cantilevered roof on both internal and external sides of the courtyard, similar to the ones of the new graveyard, which is supported by colonnades, developed in double height on the entrance to the courtyard. developed in double height on the entrance to thedeveloped in double height on the entrance to the |
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