架构师提供的文本描述。在所有类型的现存建筑中，殡仪馆是建筑师最难建造的建筑之一，因为它具有深远的象征意义。从这个主题出发，以死亡为主题，提出了这个项目的概念和空间的定义，这是由极限、过渡、永恒和暂时性等观念决定的，以及这些概念是如何导致生命终结的。

Text description provided by the architects. Among all types of existing buildings, a funeral parlor is one of the most difficult to build for an architect due to its profound symbolic weight. Starting this project thinking of death as its main theme, made the concept of the project and the definition of the space to be determined by ideas such as limits, transitions, permanence and temporality, and how these lead to the idea of life ending.

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死亡是一个无法定义的事实，也是连续性中的一个决定性的断裂；正是因为它，时间，或者我们对它的解释，才结束。根据世界各地不同的文化，死亡有几种不同的表现方式，它们都有着深深的尊重、怀疑、悲伤和恐惧。在我国，死亡已经克服了这些情感中的大部分，成为一项重大的社会事件。

Death is a fact impossible to define and a definitive fracture in the continuity; it is because of it that time, or our interpretation of it, ends. Death is represented in several ways according to different cultures around the world, and all of them share a deep respect, doubt, grief and fear around it. In our country death has overcome most of these feelings to become a major social event. 

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我们开始设计安息礼拜堂，因为它必须创造一种和平、平静和宁静的气氛；它应该是人们可以停留、表达不满的亲密场所。同时，这一空间应该作为社交聚会的场所，有时死者会进入第二任期。为了实现这一目标，我们试图将社会区域与休息礼拜堂分开，我们试图将花园整合为教堂的延伸。每个礼拜堂都有一个房间在地下室，有一个直接的私人通道，以便亲属可以休息或清洁自己。

We started designing the chapel of rest, knowing that it must create an atmosphere of peace, calm and serenity; it should be an intimate place where people may stay, show their grievances. At the same time, this space should work as place for social gatherings, where sometimes the deceased goes to a second term. To achieve this objective we tried to separate the social areas from the chapel of rest, and we sought to integrate the gardens as an extension of the chapel. Each chapel has a room in the basement, with a direct private access so that the relatives may rest or clean themselves.

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整个建筑有两个主要的功能：为他们的最后的敬意准备尸体和为一个爱的人的死亡而举行的社会仪式。由于这些原因，这些功能分为两层：地下室，提供一切服务，为死者的最终命运做好准备；街道层面的公共区域，将珀戈拉中央露台和五个小教堂与办公室、咖啡厅、花店、托儿所、洗手间和信息区等行政空间连接起来。

The whole building has two main functions; to prepare the bodies for their final homage and to house the social ritual dedicated to the death of a love one. For these reasons the functions are divided in two stories; a basement, which has all the services to prepare the deceased bodies for their final destiny and a public area at street level which connects the pergola central patio and the five chapels with the administrative spaces like offices, coffee shop, flower shop, nursery, restrooms and information areas.

空间结果结合了不同的时刻，因为它通过自然光的处理创造感觉。这些空间与短暂的空间相结合，既能唤起人们的情感，又能让人们平静地离去。我们选择了足够的植被来理解这个地点。最后，我们实现了一个地方的活植被的对比，以崇敬死亡。

The spatial result conjugates different moments, for it creates sensations through a natural light handling. The spaces are combined with transitory spaces to arouse the emotions but also to let the people go in peace. We chose the adequate vegetation to enable the comprehension of the site.  Finally, we achieve the contrast of the living vegetation in a place to venerate death.

Architects Tatiana Bilbao

Location San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Category Memorial Center

Arquitectos a Cargo Tatiana Bilbao, David Vaner, Catia Bilbao

Design Team Tatiana Bilbao, Guido Ebbert, Israel Alvarez, Michel Trejo, Thorsten Englert

Area 2160.0 sqm

Proyect Year 2011

Photography Iwan Baan