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Architects: JFA – Estudio de Arquitectura
- Area: 10250 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Adrià Goula
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Manufacturers: STACBOND, Ceramiche Keope, iGuzzini, Breinco, Circa, Reiter
Text description provided by the architects. The project houses the “New Sancho de Avila’s Funeral Home” (“Tanatorio de Sancho de Ávila”) in Barcelona. It is located in the same block as the ‘same-name’ original building. The original Funeral Home opened in 1968, and was the first existing funeral home which introduced, in Spain, the concept of wake outside the family home, thus representing a change in the way of vigil the dead. 50 years after the construction of the original building, the challenge was to design a building which became a new funeral home model adapted to the present and future needs of the sector and become a benchmark for the city.
