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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. ASIAIN HALL CEMETERY EXTENSION in Navarre, Spain by Iñigo Esparza ArquitectoSeptember 11th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto The Town council of Asiain, a small community located in the municipality of Olza, proposed a simple program when decided to build an extension for the old cemetery. An open air area containing the burial niches and a side construction with the autopsy room and a storage unit. The limited dimensions of the cemetery and the inexistence of a covered space to provide shade and shelter from the harshness of weather, encouraged to transform the new access into a small pavilion. A prismatic volume, link between the old and the new area, not only used as a roofed platform but also as a module containing the indoor program.  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz
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 Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz This new element is made of concrete that, aside from functioning as a building element, provides a sober finish to the surfaces. The main fachades has been conceived as a free-flowing latticework built with rectangular steel hollow sections prime and painted. The access is through a large door constructed with the same metallic elements. The autopsy room and the storage room are bounded with light sandwich panels in a soft grey colour. Reducing the existing wall between the old cemetery and the new extention to 1,50 meters allowed a visual and even a physical connection at the end of the plot. The intervention finalizes with gravel paths and the relocation in the access module of an old renaissance baptismal font.  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Berta Buzunariz  Image Courtesy © Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto  Image Courtesy © Iñigo Esparza Arquitecto
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