O luto e a lembrança no tempo e espaço: Cemitério em Monte Carmelo, MG

Abstract

Few problems were dealt so early in human history such as the act of dying and its celebrations. Since many time there were many representations of the own death in culture, passing in the spaces of cemeteries through funerary art. It is possible to maintain a parallel between artistic portrayals with what is produced in the cemetery spaces, where architecture many times mixes with sculpture and poetry. The following work analyses the relations of space and religiosity through funerary rites and customs from Monte Carmelo, a Minas Gerais city in the middle of Brazil that still have a strong relation with its religious background. Nowadays, the cities cemetery is almost fully saturated, requiring a new cemetery project that is able to cover future demands. Analyzing funerary portrayals in Brazil through time and using the city as a case study, the work results in a new architectural project of a cemetery, crematory, chapel and park for the city, producing a public space of quality that has the capacity to minimize damages from the decadent economy of the city and its industries. The project also has the goal to discuss and question about death and its rituals, and how the spaces made for the dead ones influence on the living.