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Cappella d'Ombra
Cappella d'Ombra
Province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy
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Cappella d'Ombra
Province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
This small funerary chapel originates as an act of inner recollection: an existential refuge where silence and
time seem to remain suspended. A place conceived to be perceived.
The form of the refuge reduces the construction to its most essential image: a dense mass of primordial shape, shaped through the excavation of matter. The result is an elementary prismatic figure with a 3.5 × 3.5 m base, topped by a dual-pitched roof that echoes a geometry already present (hidden beneath decorations) in the buildings of the small cemetery. The intervention chooses to assert its otherness in relation to the context through the exaggeration of simplicity.
On the exterior, the exposed concrete, raw and unprotected, is entrusted to time: destined to change, to age, and to stain like a skin that records the passage of the seasons. It accepts the humidity of the environment and the slow appearance of moss as part of its material destiny. The interior space is born as the result of the subtraction of mass: a void covered by a barrel vault that guides the gaze along a single nave. Two precise incisions (one lateral and one in the roof) allow light to penetrate and cross the darkness without invading it, breaking in like a rare event, a fragile and momentary presence.
Shadow participates as a building material and determines an aesthetic and emotional condition: the space becomes intimate and the materials reveal their depth. When it settles on the rough plaster, it thickens and fragments, blurring and making the contours uncertain; in the peperino (local stone), instead, it finds a smooth and polychrome surface, where it neither extinguishes nor dissolves completely, but lingers, held.
The result is a deep and opaque atmosphere, in which shadow is the protagonist of a subtle play of ambivalences: what reflects does not define, and
time seem to remain suspended. A place conceived to be perceived.
The form of the refuge reduces the construction to its most essential image: a dense mass of primordial shape, shaped through the excavation of matter. The result is an elementary prismatic figure with a 3.5 × 3.5 m base, topped by a dual-pitched roof that echoes a geometry already present (hidden beneath decorations) in the buildings of the small cemetery. The intervention chooses to assert its otherness in relation to the context through the exaggeration of simplicity.
On the exterior, the exposed concrete, raw and unprotected, is entrusted to time: destined to change, to age, and to stain like a skin that records the passage of the seasons. It accepts the humidity of the environment and the slow appearance of moss as part of its material destiny. The interior space is born as the result of the subtraction of mass: a void covered by a barrel vault that guides the gaze along a single nave. Two precise incisions (one lateral and one in the roof) allow light to penetrate and cross the darkness without invading it, breaking in like a rare event, a fragile and momentary presence.
Shadow participates as a building material and determines an aesthetic and emotional condition: the space becomes intimate and the materials reveal their depth. When it settles on the rough plaster, it thickens and fragments, blurring and making the contours uncertain; in the peperino (local stone), instead, it finds a smooth and polychrome surface, where it neither extinguishes nor dissolves completely, but lingers, held.
The result is a deep and opaque atmosphere, in which shadow is the protagonist of a subtle play of ambivalences: what reflects does not define, and
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