The Modena Cemetery, located in Italy, is a working example of an "Architecture of Permanence" set forth in Aldo Rossi's book "The Architecture of the City"
The main concepts are:
- typology
- social content
- urban artifact
- scales of reference
- locus (historical reference)
These are the plans of the cemetery
Rossi uses typology and repetitive formal elements to dislocate the urban artifact from it's historical context, creating a condition that offers multiple textual readings of a singular element
The result is an inversion of interior space that challenges the part - to - whole relationship of the courtyard and the function of the columbarium and ossuary.
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