MUNICIPAL FUNERAL SERVICES, TERRASSA

Project

The building is conceived as a white box placed somewhere between heaven and earth, as an optimistic image of death, seen as a journey and not as the end.
The slope of the ground means the administration area is accessed directly from the street. A courtyard with water separates the three main rooms: the vigil rooms, the cafeteria and the chapel.
The landscape is totally visible from the large glazed foyer, in contrast to the usual hermetic image of this sort of buildings.
From inside the imposing chapel there are views up to the sky.

Team

• Architecture
  Jordi Badia
• Computation structures
  Eduard Doce.
• Calculation facilities
  Consulting Lluis Duart SL.
• Landscaping
  Francesc Belart.
• Images
  Photos: © Eugeni Pons

Publications

• Architecti 61
  Year 2002 Project: Municipal funeral services
• ARQ./A ANO III - 17
  Year 2003 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Arquitectes barcelona 73
  Year 2000 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Book: Another 100 of the worlds best houses Casa CH Libro El Minimalismo Ed. Oceano de México, SA LOFT Publications
  Year 2003 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Book: Catalunya Guía de arquitectura moderna 1880-2007.
  Year 2007 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Book: The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture ( England)
  Year 2003 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Catalogue II Bienal de Arquitectura del Vallés
  Year 2003 Pp. 16 Project: Municipal funeral services
• MAGAZINE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE
  Year 1989 Pp. 52-63 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: ARCHITECTI 61. T (Portugal)
  Year 2003 Pp. 38 - 43 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: ARCHITECTURE MEDITERRANÉENE 58 (Francia)
  Year 2002 Pp. 129 - 132 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: Archivolta1 29 (Poland)
  Year 2006 Pp. 37 - 40 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: ARQ./A ANO III 17
  Year 2003 Pp. 36 - 43 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: b-guided 34 «Los vivos y los muertos».
  Year 2008 Pp. 48 - 51 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: CASABELLA 713 (Italy)
  Year 2003 Pp. 42 - 47 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: DAU 18
  Year 2002 Pp. 36 - 43 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: Emergentes 03.Ciclo de conferencias. Ed. Demarcación de Zaragoza del COA Aragón
  Year 2003 Pp. 14 - 15 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Magazine: Oris 40 (Croatia)
  Year 2006 Pp. 52 - 63 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Newspaper: La Vanguardia, Culturas 149.
  Year 2005 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Newspaper: La Vanguardia, Culturas 87
  Year 2003 Project: Municipal funeral services
• Revista: ORIS 40
  Year 2006 Pp. 52 Project: Municipal funeral services
• THE PHAIDON ATLAS OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD ARCHITECTURE
  Year 2002 Pp. 539 Project: Municipal funeral services
• TOP jóvenes arquitectos europeos
  Year 2005 Project: Municipal funeral services

Awards

2003

• Chosen for the Second Architecture Exhibition of Vallés 2003