The Realization

Final production of our studio designs for the cemetery at Igualada, Spain has been in full effect for a few days now. Cinco-de-Mayo celebrations took a back-seat to days and nights spent drawing and modelbuilding. This is the final produciton-model of my design, displaying the aforementioned canopy system:

An aerial overview of the site with the proposed intervention

Starting with the two areas of intervention, the canopy extends to connect both with the rest of the site

A view of the lower expansion, looking toward the upper-

From the entry sequence, one can barely distinguish that anything differs from the original

Aerial view from the North

A view looking down from the upper expansion, covering the connection to the lower-

Gimme' Shelter

The going theme is now a canopy of sorts to tie everything into the site. It will envelop the new intervention and act as vines entangling the old with the new, or a candy wrapper, twisting its way around the existing. Corten steel louvers will shade the new spaces while allowing freedom of the elements throughout.

Levels

this is my working scheme for the design at Igualada cemetery. its a site model made up of 13 layers; let's take a look st its construction step by step...

Level 1. The Base

Level 2. The lowest contour along the road

Level 3. The first level of the Columbarium

Level 7. The second tier of burial chambers

Level 10. Showing the existing chapel as well as the additional contemplative space

Level 13. Aerial

this is the first attempt at a 3-dimensional representation of my intervention at the igualada cemetery. it's a bit shallow, so the shadow relief does not do it much justice but i wanted to share it with all of you nevertheless.

Concepts for an Addition

Our new goal is to create an addition to the Igualada Cemetery and add program such as additional burial sites, and places of religious and secular contemplation. here are some ideas i am working with:

a section looking east through the program, showing the exhumation of spaces from the landscape

layout based on a cross-axis intersecting the valley procession

site plan showing existing program (black) and additions (purple)

Final Maps

Our final critique for the mapping of the Igualada cemetery was yesterday. Professor Andrew Thurlow took time out of his sabbatical to reign supreme over our group for the evening. Here are some pictures of my final Axonometric and Sectional drawings and the layout of my presentation. To clarify, my project was a focus on the staircase that runs through the 2 levels of interment chambers, a sort of walk through the valley of death, as it were. Quite powerful.

the actual hand-drawings

everything laid out

Drawings Without Paper

A drawing of my "moment" made of out bent pieces of wire: