ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 8 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/96628/family-tomb-in-the-acor-mountains-pedro-dias Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Andrew Rosenberg https://www.archdaily.com/96628/family-tomb-in-the-acor-mountains-pedro-dias The concept behind this small, rather unusual but challenging project was the creation of a simple, restrained and minimalistic architectural object that, apart from containing the basic program presented by the client (capacity for 8 coffins), playing in a dignified way its role as a "tribute to the memory " and integrating itself in the cemetery, would interact directly with the impressive surrounding mountain landscape (without blocking its view), by literally framing it, in order to use the moment of its quiet contemplation as a "transmission vehicle" for transcendental communication between the "living" and "missing" ones.

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