A portion of Pavia monumental cemetery has been destined to a new temple for three thousand cinerary urns on two levels. Our proposal aims to find a remedy to the “bookshelf effect” of many columbaria that, due to the high concentration of graves, don’t allow any privacy. The plan has been therefore conceived as a spiral with involving arms, in order to prevent direct introspection and to generate small circumstances of intimacy for the visitors. The two levels are connected by a long ramp hidden between two of the arms, avoiding the prosaic necessity of a lift. The prefabricated burial cells are hidden in a continuous and finished wall made of light material. So that the graves can be “dug”, burial after burial, throughout the time in a blank wall, instead than appearing since the opening of the temple as a pigeonhole waiting to be filled.
