Una arquitectura para el silencio. El tanatorio del cementerio de Boisaca de Santiago de Compostela

Abstract

This article analyses modern-day attitudes towards death and how these are reflected in the spaces devoted to it. In designing the Boisaca morgue, Alfredo Varela Nogueira has constructed a building based on the mutual promotion of spaces, adopting a functional approach that puts the emphasis on the expressive nature of the materials, displaying them exactly as they are without disguising or concealing them, and doing so through purity of form and the defining of spaces and symbols, while also allowing light to play a fundamental role.