© David Frutos

(C)戴维·弗鲁托斯

架构师提供的文本描述。殡仪馆项目的委托是从建造建筑物的地点和管理开始。该地产是一家地方和地区范围的保险公司，希望在其业务集中的地区(卡塔赫纳北部、‘La Palma’和‘Pozo Estrecho’之间、卡塔赫纳油田和‘Mar Menor’海之间的地区加强其客户基础。这就是一切开始的过程，也是我从工作中学到的第一课：没有人想在附近开一个太平间。

Text description provided by the architects. The commission of the Mortuary project starts with the location and management of a plot to raise the building. The property, an insurances company of local and regional scope, wanted to strengthen its customer base with this kind of facility in the area in which it concentrates his operations: the North of Cartagena, between the towns of ‘La Palma’ and ‘Pozo Estrecho’, in the surroundings of the Field of Cartagena and the ‘Mar Menor’ sea. That was how everything started and how I learned the first lesson of work: nobody wants a mortuary in their neighbourhood.

 © David Frutos

(C)戴维·弗鲁托斯

经过多次尝试在不同的地点购买可用的地块，在一种渐进和无情的漂移引导我们远离最近的和可到达的地方，我们刚刚在工业园区完成。在那里，我们选择了一个有趣的情节：很好的比例和方向，战略位置，向工业园区的一般停车场和绿色区域开放，我们很难分辨出一些没有人注意到的小人造石凳和一些散落的柏树，但它们给我们增加了土地价值。第二个教训是识别和解释地形码，这是一个由建筑物组成的工业场地，尽管它们的生产、展览、储存、商业等条件和活动规模不同，但它们有一些共同的模式，使整个建筑具有奇怪和复杂的离散连续性。

After many attempts to purchase available plots at different locations, in a drift that progressively and inexorably leads us away from the nearest and accessible places, we just finished in the industrial park. There, we selected an interesting plot: well proportioned and oriented, and strategically located, open to the general parking area and green zone of the industrial park, in which we could hardly distinguish small artificial stone benches and some scattered cypresses, that no one had noticed, but they add land value to us. The second lesson was to identify and interpret the location codes, an industrial site made of constructions, that despite their different condition and activity scale -production, exhibition, storage, commercial, etc.-, had some common patterns that gave the whole a strange and complex discrete continuity.

 © David Frutos

(C)戴维·弗鲁托斯

我们提前得到了第三个教训，使预算符合可行性的限度。在此基础上，我们对建筑功能方案进行了调整，使其最小化，从而得到了精确而抽象的结构。在建筑物内，白色和自然光在其不同方向上提供的连续性取决于确定它们的连续空间和纹理的不同大小和比例。

We had the third lesson learned in advance, fit the budget to the limit of viability. With this objective, we adjusted the building functional scheme to minimize it, with the consequent surfaces reduction and the achievement of an accurate and abstract construction. Inside the building, the continuity provided by the white colour and natural light in its different orientations is qualified by the different size and proportion of successive spaces and textures of the materials that define them.

 © David Frutos

(C)戴维·弗鲁托斯

设计和建造礼拜堂里的所有家具，不仅仅是一个双重挑战：除了一张长凳，还要设计一套构成礼拜仪式的象征和功能元素(十字架、交流桌、讲台等)，用单一的系统和材料来完成：松木木板，以不同的组合，让我们解决房间各个部分的连接。如何在异国情调的背景下识别远处的建筑是最后的一课：我们支持正面的标志，并将它与天空隔开，这无疑是区分它与远方的最好方法。我打赌Ed Ruscha自己会喜欢的.。

Designing and constructing all the furniture in the chapel, was more than a lesson a double challenge: to design, in addition to a bench, the set of pieces that form the symbolic and functional elements of the liturgy (the cross, the communion table, the lectern, etc.), and do it with a single system and material: pine wood plank, that in different combinations, allows us to solve an connect all parts of the room. How to recognize the building in the distance against a backdrop of exotic signs was the last lesson: we support the sign on the top of the facade and cut it out against the sky, no doubt this was the best way to distinguish it from a distant point. I bet Ed Ruscha himself would have liked it...

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