架构师提供的文本描述。在Lisboa和Vila Franca de Xira之间最引人注目的地方，矗立着Alhandra的海角，被一座教堂和一个公墓所神化。这个地方是一条越来越大的特约河上的露台，支配着周围的环境。在教堂前，我们可以看到一个不规则形状的广场。

Text description provided by the architects. In the most remarkable place between Lisboa and Vila Franca de Xira, rises the promontory of Alhandra, hallowed by a Church and a cemetery. This place, a terrace over an increasingly larger Tejo river, dominates the surroundings. In front of the Church we can find a irregularally shaped square.

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殡仪馆的设计寻求重新定义广场，强化它的意义，为它提供强烈的和仪式的目的。

The mortuary houses’ design seeks to redefine the square, reenforcing its meanings, providing it with intencional and ceremonial purpose.

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从死亡的博弈中，我们可以回忆起坟墓之间的狭窄路径，以及坟墓物质的常年性和体积性特征。

From the game of death we can recall the confined paths between the graves and the perennial and volumetric characteristics of it substance.

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从本质上讲，采石场可以让我们把这座建筑想象成一个巨大的有沟的石头块，形状就像它是从地面上提取出来的，展示了它的伤疤和伤口，用来组织照明的裂痕和褶皱，用来定义长凳，或者让光线进入房间。

The quarries, in its essence, allow us to imagine this building as an enormous furrowed stone block, shaped like it was extracted from the ground, showing it’s scars and wounds, breaks and folds used to organize the lighting, to define benches, or to let the light in the chambers.

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我们组织每个房间的空间，通过一个木制的连续元素，成为路面，一个纵向的长凳和门。为了确保安全和连接这两个时刻，大门是公墓大门的精确副本。

We organize the space in each chamber, through a wooden continuous element that becomes the pavement, a longitudinal bench and the door. The gates are an exact copy of the cemetery gate, to insure security and to connect the two moments.

Architects Matos Gameiro Arquitectos

Location Alhandra, Portugal

Category Burial

Architects in Charge Pedro Matos Gameiro, João Maria Trindade e Carlos Crespo

Project Year 2008