Planning a funeral chapel means designing a building with a strong symbolic value, dealing not only with the place where it will be located, but especially with spiritual values. Planning a funeral means to design a small monument, a small church. In the design of the chapel to St. George Canavese, it was important to preserve the existing profile.... read more

Planning a funeral chapel means designing a building with a strong symbolic value, dealing not only with the place where it will be located, but especially with spiritual values. Planning a funeral means to design a small monument, a small church. In the design of the chapel to St. George Canavese, it was important to preserve the existing profile. It is part of a sequence of chapels side by side and arranged along the perimeter of an open space. The chapel, a square with sides of about 3 meters, is fully covered with large slabs of gneiss white. Two angular stainless steel pieces form a cross on the facade, which becomes the door handles. Even the indoor flooring and the front wall are coated in large slabs of gneiss while all other walls and the ceiling are painted with nail polish satin black. A large vase in black granite, with nine red roses on a bed of red sand, placed in the center of the space, becomes the real focus of the project. Two paving slabs close the access hatch to the underground space. The choice is of a simple geometry, elementary, cube stone capped by a pediment also made of stone, as opposed to ornaments present on the adjacent chapels. This makes sure that the new chapel can be integrated perfectly into the context while speaking a different language. collapse