Funeral Home in Begur

The funeral home pretends to integrate in the environment reproducing the same resources as the natural and architectural spaces use to organize. The project is understood as a promenade, an extension of the cemetery, which connects the different rooms which are endowed with a certain degree of privacy thanks to the help of vegetation and the building.

The new funeral home is organized with a series of walls that separate the different rooms and these are structured according to a sequence of existing guidelines in the cemetery and orienting the circulations in order to generate a promenade in the enclosure.\nThe organization of the program differentiates between public and private circulation, separating them with the help of the gardens. As a restricted space a semi-buried piece that saves the slope and extends the mountain and collects the service rooms such as dressing rooms, maintenance rooms, warehouses, the morgue and the rooms for installations.\nApart from the space restricted by a patio and distributed in an outer route where the different waiting rooms, administration and the chapel are located, the last one is directly related to the volume of services in order to connect directly with restricted circulations and the cemetery. The cemetery is connected through a nucleus of linear stairs and a forklift that allows to save the difference in height of the paths.\nThe accesses to the different rooms are generated through a porch behind this one to move away from both the common traffic spaces and the road and, in the case of the wardrobes, it works as an antechamber. The chapel opens from the front, extending to the outside and allowing the porch and garden to be part of it. At the same time the cemetery entrance s enunciated with two cypresses that help to reduce the visual relationship with the chapel.\nAll this arrangement reproduces, in fact, the same resources present in the cemetery itself: the filters (vegetation, wall, vegetation, construction, vegetation ...) that separate the road with what happens inside and the connection of the tombs is carried out by roads perpendicular to the road.