Cementerio ASIAIN / Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto

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Text description provided by the architects. 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. An open air area containing the burial niches and a side construction with the autopsy room and a storage unit.

© Berta Buzunariz

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. 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.

© Berta Buzunariz

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

© 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.

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Address:Navarre, Spain

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Cite: "Cementerio ASIAIN / Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto" [Cementerio ASIAIN / Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto] 28 Aug 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/420879/cementerio-asiain-inigo-esparza-arquitecto> ISSN 0719-8884

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