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The dead would have been stacked like files in this ultra-modern burial building.
While construction on the San Cataldo Cemetery, a high-minded architectural proof of concept, was never completed, the intention of the brightly colored grave house can still be discerned from the rows and rows of identical tombs slots that lay empty. Built in 1972 by Italian architect and theorist Aldo Rossi, the square building is stillstanding on rows of concrete stilts and the center of the structure is an open courtyard where one can see the tight grid of empty burial niches arrayed in the floors overhead. At regular intervals among the burial squares, “window” blocks open to the outside, giving the exterior of the building an almost decorative grid.
