Brion-Vega Cemetery, by Carlos Scarpa, 1978 - in  San Vito d’Altivole, Italy

Family Tomb in the Açor Mountains, by Pedro Dias, 2006 – 2009 - in Monte Frio, Arganil, Portugal

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.

Estrela Cementery, by Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clément,  2000-2001 - in Estrela, Moura, Portugal

The cemetery and mortuary chapel constitute an ensemble of two enclosed spaces, built in a holm-oak field. One of the holm-oaks becomes part of the enclosure, as an element of the cemetery anchorage, transforming the chapel patio into an important shadow space. This gesture acquires a structural significance, either in the dialogue between built and landscape, or in the character of the chapel interior space, built with holm-oak wood, recycled from the fell of trees in the new lagoon river-side.