Cemetery and Wake Room / Schneider & Lengauer

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Text description provided by the architects. Situated in the heart of the village, the cemetery of Hopfgarten in Defereggen is not only a place for mourning and farewell, but also one of daily encounters. For the expansion of the area and the construction of a wake room, the municipality initiated an invited peer review. Death and mortality should fill a symbolic place in the community, which would, at the same time, also provide a "worthy and intimate" framework for the farewell rituals of mourners, according to the demand of the municipal clients. Furthermore they wanted a harmonious integration of the wake room into the existing cemetery, which is arranged around the late-baroque church. A massive natural stone wall divides the cemetery from the street, while a covered arcade, with the chapel from the 1930s, closes the site to the north.