Scarpa | Brion Cemetery: A Gate Composed of Two Intersecting Circles

At the end of the path leading into the cemetery, the wall features two overlapping circular openings, forming a spectacle-like aperture where they intersect, with the edges inlaid with thin rings of colorful mosaic. Through this opening, one sees the cemetery's lawn and distant burial mounds—the opening frames the landscape into a prescribed view. The concrete surface has fine, stepped receding moldings, a signature Scarpa treatment, where each recession reveals the wall's thickness. The ground is made of precast concrete slabs, with moss growing in the gaps. Shot frontally in soft, overcast light, clearly showing the overlap of the two circles and the shadows of the moldings. Avoid: changing to a single circular opening, making the edges flat, smooth concrete surface, no view outside the opening.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

進入墓園的通道盡頭,牆上開著兩個互相交疊的圓形洞口,交疊處連成一個像眼鏡般的開口,邊緣鑲以彩色馬賽克的細環。透過這個洞看出去,是墓園的草地與遠處的墳丘——洞口把風景裁成一個被規定的畫面。混凝土的表面帶著細密的階梯狀退縮線腳,那是斯卡帕標誌性的處理,每一道退縮都在展示牆的厚度。地面為預鑄的混凝土板,縫隙間長出青苔。柔和的陰天光線下正面拍攝,兩個圓的交疊與線腳的陰影清楚。避免:改為單一圓洞、邊緣做成平口、混凝土表面平滑、洞外看出去沒有景。