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Carlo Scarpa’s Brion-Vega cemetery, San Vito d’Altivole, Italy
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” Scarpa (1906-1978) designed the Brion-Vega in San Vito d’Altivole, near Italy’s Treviso, as an extension to the family’s existing cemetery. The architect developed the geometrical concrete composition over a 10-year period, with works finally reaching completion in 1978.
The L-shaped plot includes a complex of five buildings; a small chapel, the entrance hall, a small steel-and-wood pavilion on an island in the site’s water pond, the main tomb, and an open-air structure covering the graves.
Carlo Scarpa’s Brion-Vega cemetery, San Vito d’Altivole, Italy
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Aiming to create a poetic resting place as much as a sculptural memorial in a green, calming garden, Scarpa used well-thought-out design features; for example, the cemetery walls are not higher than the surrounding field’s plants, discreetly merging the structure into the landscape. Within the site, there is also a small island with no apparent access for visitors, which perhaps works as a metaphor for the afterlife.
Scarpa also designed a pond for the L-shaped site
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The open-air structure that covers the graves
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Reflection of the main tomb in the cemetery’s pond
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Detail of the geometric concrete masonry
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Detail of the geometric concrete masonry
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Detail of the geometric concrete masonry
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The architect himself rests, vertically, in the cemetery walls, after passing away in 1978 during a trip to Japan – the same year that his last masterpiece was finished.
The architect himself is buried within his masterpiece
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The main tomb
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Inside the small chapel
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More photos and details here
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