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The structure, designed to accommodate a total of 90 burial niches on five levels, features a centrally planned block of reinforced concrete for both the walls and the coffin-bearing slabs. The niches are used both internally and externally. The layout of the niches varies, with both longitudinal and transverse use. The entire building appears as a monolith, but the arrangement of the niches is designed to interrupt the continuous visual system of the niches themselves, thus creating more intimate and private spaces for visitors.
The Municipality of Mileto has a single cemetery located on the edge of the town of Paravati, more precisely in the southern part of the municipality, a short distance from State Road 18. The cemetery currently covers approximately 22,000 square meters, has adequate parking, and is connected to the town center by a municipal road. Since its original construction, it has undergone progressive transformations to adapt to various needs. Indeed, several expansion projects have taken place in recent decades, starting with the main expansion begun in the 1990s. For the expansion, an available lot on the north side of the cemetery with a usable area of approximately 110 square meters was used, located next to the existing boundary wall, near the main entrance and overlooking the parking lot.
The entire project was designed to utilize the cemetery facilities with maximum rationality, achieving architectural uniformity in both the floor plan and the materials used, and allowing for the overall use of the facilities with maximum comfort and the necessary safety. A reinforced concrete block for both the walls and the coffin slabs. To reinforce the monolithic concept, the entire building is clad in white Carrara marble uprights and beams. Each niche has a light source for individual votive lamps, the latter obtained through a perforated steel plate powered by an LED. The paving surface, both inside and out, is made of calibrated 10x10x6 white granite cubes with a bush-hammered finish.
The entire building appears as a monolith, and the burial niches are arranged to interrupt the continuous visual pattern of the niches, thus creating more intimate and private spaces for visitors. This is achieved through a checkerboard pattern, an effect achieved by alternating the niches with perforated steel plates that serve as votive lamps. Funerary architecture is intrinsically linked to symbolism, as monuments and works of art in cemeteries often convey messages and meanings related to death, mourning, and the memory of the deceased. Thus, this continuous alternation created by the checkerboard compositional system symbolically references the union between "life and death"; "Alpha and Omega"; "the contrast between black and white." As a final symbolic act, we find the roof, which in the central section becomes a perforated sheet metal element, which on rainy days enters and ends on the floor inside a duplicate perforated steel element found on the roof.
GATTO Rocco Antonio has been working in the Vibonese area since 2001. Having moved there immediately after completing his studies, he set up his own architectural design studio, not excluding professional collaborations with various architectural firms.
He deals with different design fields, ranging from design objects to the master plan of an urban settlement. He performs all the dynamics of being an architect, from designer to safety coordinator on mobile construction sites.
His professional curriculum includes the drafting and realisation of:
projects in archaeological areas, projects for squares and public spaces, projects for sports facilities, projects for tourist accommodation facilities, projects for public education facilities,
projects for production activities, projects for cemetery extensions and funerary buildings, renovations of flats for civil habitation and interior work. There are numerous participations in design competition
