Municipal Cemetery of Fisterra

César Portela Arquitecto (1)
César Portela Arquitecto
César Portela Fernández-Jardón

Architecture constructs the territory and, in this case, is perhaps nothing more than a sensitive interpretation of it. This sensitive interpretation is based on projecting transcending the strict place of the project, so that it does not define self-absorbed objects, but rather that they appropriate what is around them: their geography and also their history. Buildings and landscape are considered as a whole. The organic configuration of the earth, of the mountain in this case, is opposed to the precise Platonic geometry of the stone boxes. The cubes float freely at the front and are buried in the ground at the back, inevitably binding themselves to the earth.

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The cemetery, the world of the dead, understood in this way, is a network of paths that extend along the cliff, the same paths that used to lead to the old mills and rustic farms along these paths; we will come across some crates stranded on the side of a path, which are buried in the hillside, and inside them the dead.

Sergio Portela

General information

Municipal Cemetery of Fisterra

YEAR

2000

Status

Built

Option to visit

Free visit

Address

St. Cabo Fisterra,

15155 Finisterra - A Coruña

Latitude: 42.892290577

Longitude: -9.266285316

Classification

Building materials

Granite

Built area

1 - 500 m²

Awards

VI BEAU

ACUE 2003

Involved architects

César Portela Fernández-Jardón

Collaborators

Juan Mosquera Muiños (Project)

Fabián Estévez (Project)

Involved architectural firms

César Portela Arquitecto

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Location

42.892290577 -9.266285316 a84dff0d-b509-4a5c-9904-b58a2285e23c Built
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Itineraries

A Coruña

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