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Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Monumento Funebre

Funerary Monument

Standing on the site of memory and enduring pietas, funerary architecture embraces many symbolic values that express profound concepts operating within society, explicitly and implicitly. The realization of a funerary chapel for the Mantegazza family from Lugano became a virtual declaration of identity, making the architecture into the cornerstone of a proposal of accumulated memory. The design for this non-conventional funerary architecture took into consideration a set of values and evaluations, convictions and conceptions, inserting fragments of contemporary thought into a place with obvious historical stratification. At the same time, the plan was also determined by the belief that a new equilibrium can be consolidated through choices balanced between the expression of a unique language and the need to respect the surrounding memorials. Defining elements of the project include the open piazza above the crypt, whose space is delineated but not blocked by a series of vertical panels, thus encouraging free movement and contemplation; a central glass podium that gathers the zenith light and projects it onto the altar below, as if bringing the presence of spirit into man’s earthly condition; and finally, a bronze sculpture, Great Mother by Nag Arnoldi, which symbolically welcomes visitors and dignifies the funerary monument with its commanding presence.

Architect:

Giampiero Camponovo

Year:

2015

Location:

Lugano

Category:

Projects, Sacred Buildings

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