lutheran-mortuary-chapel / Romania
| Progettista | Gábor Tóthfalusi | |
| Location | Házsongárd Cemetery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania | |
| Nazione | Romania | |
| Design Team |
Architecture: TEKTUM ARHITECTURĂ & ARTĂ |
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| Anno | 2023 | |
| Crediti Fotografici |
Photo 1 External, Photo 2 External, Photo 3 External, Photo 4 External, Photo 5 External, Photo 1 Internal, Photo 2 Internal, Photo 3 Internal, Photo 4 Internal, Photo 5 Internal: Alexandru Fleșeriu |
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Descrizione del progetto
Situated in the Lutheran part of Házsongárd, a historical cemetery established in the 16th Century, in Cluj, the building has been commissioned by the church to function as its mortuary chapel and to host the offices for the Házsongárd Association, a small NGO focusing on the preservation of the cemetery’s built heritage.
Since the late 19th-Century building partly occupying the site, in state of disrepair, could not accommodate a broader range of functions, the decision was taken to have it replaced. While the façade had to be preserved, at the request of the Monuments Commission, the proximity of the tombs, paired with the need for creating an outdoor gathering space, allowed for the built area to be extended with no more than an irregular stretch along the property boundary.
Thus, as site constraints shape the volume, the building emerges as a stone cleaved by cutting planes, an archetypal image of the 19th-century monumental tomb. With the belfry unfolding over the original gabled wall, the roof dramatically descends towards the opposite end, leaving just enough room for the staircase to the basement columbarium.
Behind the dark grey mica-schist painted façade, which parallels the shimmering black marble of the surrounding tombstones, matte red brick envelops walls and roofing. The uniform texture of the facades, sparsely intertwined with the oak of the entrance openings and the cor-ten of the main entrance cantilever, provides color and texture, reinforcing the building’s monumentality, while at the same time contrasting with the sober, exposed concrete casing inside.
As the granite cobblestones of the front patio extend into the refectory, the interior-exterior boundary fades when the massive steel door slides open, expanding the ceremonial space. The east-west orientation of the plan allows the light to penetrate through the upper glazing of the tower, allowing the sunbeams to fall once more on the coffin during the funeral mass.
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