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Scarpa began designing this addition to the existing municipal cemetery of San Vito d'Altivole in 1968. Although he continued to consider changes to the project, it was completed before his accidental death in Japan in 1978. Several discrete elements comprise the family burial site: a sloped concrete
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and Japanese influences such as the tea-room inspiration of the chapel are evident in the design. In the garden are a dense grove of cypresses, a prato (lawn), and a private meditation/viewing pavilion, separated from the main prato by a separate and locked entrance, and a heavily vegetated
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The sanctuary is designed as a composition of concrete buildings with distinctive detailing set in gardens with water features. It has been described as "both a meditation on death and an evocation of a particular magical city,
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A conservation restoration of the Brion tomb was completed in September 2021. The Brion heirs, Ennio and Donatella, donated the site to
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for Giuseppe and Onorina Brion, and one for other family members). The "viewing device" of the pavilion of meditation suggests a
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Scarpa felt that "the place for the dead is a garden" and is himself buried adjacent to the Brion sanctuary.
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between 1968–1978 as an L-shaped 2,000 m (22,000 sq ft) extension to the adjacent municipal
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Stern, Michael (1 April 1994). "Passages in the Garden: An Iconology of the Brion Tomb".
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enclosing wall, two distinct entrances, a small chapel, two covered burial areas (the
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company. The enclosure is a private burial ground for the Brion family. Their twinned
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San Vito d'Altivole
Treviso
Italy
Carlo Scarpa
cemetery
post-modernist architecture
45°45′05″N 11°54′48″E / 45.751323°N 11.913341°E / 45.751323; 11.913341






Onorina Tomasin-Brion
Giuseppe Brion
it
Brionvega
sarcophagi


Venice
arcosolium
vesica piscis
Byzantine mosaics
Italian Environmental Fund
Dune: Part Two


"Garden of death and dreams: Brion Cemetery by Carlo Scarpa"

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