ciro najle general design bureau

Tomb is a tiny building with commemorative purposes that explores the tense relationship between architecture’s outside, the expression of inertness and the representation of permanence, and its inside, the articulation of life and the manifestation of vitality. It does so through the way in which openings traverse contradictory materials, hard granite and soft marble, colours, homogeneously textured black and white with grey veins, and tectonic expressions, masonry construction and panelling composition systems. Openings cut both with equal tension through repetitive arrangements of the pieces that follow but perpendicularly cut the edges, the surprising turning and cantilevering of the lintel at the corner of the building, or the use of frosted glass, which alternatively offers opacity and transparency.