Brion-Vega Cemetery
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Altivole
Altivole is a commune with 6.122 inhabitants in the province of Treviso. In frazione San Vito is located Brion Cemetery a monumental tomb designed by architect Carlo Scarpa....
near Treviso
Treviso
Treviso is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 82,854 inhabitants : some 3,000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city...
, Italy. Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa , was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan. Scarpa was also a glass and furniture designer of note....
(1909-1978) designed the addition to a previous cemetery. The cemetery is a monumental tomb designed for the Brion family, founder of the Brionvega
Brionvega
Brionvega is an Italian electronics company, established in Milan in 1945, now located in Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.Former part of the Seleco-Formenti Group, after the crack down of the company, following price dumping from Turkish manufacturers, has been split in two parts.The rights...
group. Scarpa himself is buried in this cemetery in a well hidden spot, within the interstitial space created by the walls of the old and new cemeteries. The site also includes a small chapel with a special entrance for caskets.
The cemetery includes many design features. The perimeter walls are the same height as the surrounding corn, which deemphasizes the cemetery. It also includes an island which the visitor cannot access (arguably a metaphor for the afterlife).
The window of the pavilion of meditation is in the form of a vesica piscis
Vesica piscis
The vesica piscis is a shape that is the intersection of two circles with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each circle lies on the circumference of the other. The name literally means the "bladder of a fish" in Latin...
, a repeated leitmotif in Scarpa's architecture.