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Documentation
Documentation for Architecture Conservation:
La Villetta Cemetery in Parma, Italy
a project coordinated by Michela Rossi
Formal References in Funerary Architecture
by Maria Carmen Nuzzo
With the advent of the
consumer society and the standardisation of life, the city of the
living has created homogeneous neighbourhoods of dormitories and
globalised malls and the city of the dead has been filled with crowded
burial chambers in anonymous and “normalized” structures.
The modern culture has created the “not places”, which means spaces lacking identity, non relational and with no history.
The Urban Planning of Parma Cemeterial System
by Silvia Ombellini
The cemetery is “another
city”. Its foundation and its increase are similar to the urban one.
The cemeterial system, which in Parma was born in the last half of 19th
century, presents various analogies with the urban system. Cemeteries
are orientated according to the roman centuriation. They are
characterised by the presence of the external wall, in analogy to the
urban wall, and by the symbolism of the centre. Since the Second World
War, the plot of the cemetery has become untidy, chaotic and anonymous,
like that of the city. The city of the dead has spread out, and its
limit has come nearer the living city.
The Master Plan for the Safeguarding and Restoration of La Villetta
by Elisa Adorni
The Master Plan for the
safeguarding and the restoration (afterward called PPO) of the
Villetta’s monumental Octagon is part of a larger intervention of the
cemetery planning system in Parma. The PPO is the completion of the
Cemetery Rules recently adopted.
The development of a specific
rule, with the individualisation of the historical centre of the urban
cemetery, has allowed the evaluation of the historical -architectural
heritage of the monumental cemetery.
The Virtual Museum - The Memory of the Cemetery Heritage
by Simone Riccardi
The idea of a Virtual
Museum comes from the need to control and to distribute a complex data
system. The research about the Villetta cemetery developed by the
University and Municipality of Parma - has generated a great deal of
historical, social, artistic and iconographic information.
The main goal of the virtual museum is to organize this information through routes of knowledge and tools of research.
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