"I know I will die, but I don't believe it", Cemetery of the Brotherhood of Mercy

The cemetery is a place where an ambiguity of memory persists: loved ones are commemorated even though their memory belongs to elsewhere.
This emotional ambiguity is translated into the project through the drawing of a vast empty space, designed to evoke a sense of alienation in the visitor.
The void, conceived as a piazza, is defined by burial niches, services and green areas that compose a metaphysical, De Chirico-like space of waiting.
The project seeks to restore the cemetery to its sacredness and composure. The perimeter wall unites the new and the existing, enclosing them within a harmonious square enclosure. The new extension is laid out on a 6x6m grid, whose modularity and repetition of elements generate a formal harmony and a sense of stillness. Counterbalancing the modularity and architectural composure of the piazza, an unstructured green strip is devoted to the ritual of ash scattering.