Nanda Vigo’s Twin Towers for the Rozzano cemetery
(2022) Domus —
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- Published on "Domusweb", 26 June 2022. We usually celebrate Nanda Vigo’s design works, light installations that follow the trends of kinetic art, and less so her actual architectural projects – which were courageous, daring, irreverent, just like her. This is the case with the project for the extension of the cemetery in Rozzano, the southern suburb of Milan, which she designed in 1959. The idea of a tower-shaped cemetery is intended as a solution to the future saturation of the urban sprawl and the horizontal 19th-century European monumental cemeteries. With the great and rapid development of cities, in fact, cemetery areas have moved closer and closer to residential areas, depriving them of the possibility of growing any further. And so Nanda Vigo designed her “Twin Towers'”, two light-filled buildings, which eliminated the gloomy atmosphere typical of a cemetery and any sort of burial classism, as each individual laid to rest in the tower would ideally be buried equally – no penthouse ambitions among the deceased.
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Felicori, B. (2022). Nanda Vigo’s Twin Towers for the Rozzano cemetery. Domus. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/217357