Ponte Buggianese Cemetery
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Widening plan of the Cemetery of Ponte Buggianese
The widening plan of the cemetary regards an area of approximately 4500 square metres that is adjacent to the cemetary on the west side, at the end of the area predisposed to cemetary zone.
The plan also interests the south side, where currently the side entrance is located.
The plan projects the construction of approximately 1230 loculi, 720 ossuaries - cinerary urns and 12 private mortuary chapels that will cover the necessities for the next 15 years.
The cemetary is divided in two parts.
The first part presents a clear nineteenth-century system that characterizes it as a cult place and makes it assimilable to other typically Tuscan places in the neighbourhood.
The second part was projected, built and developed in the sixties – eighties by two different planners. Their not-homogeneous languages create some kind of typological confusion and cause a loss of identity to the place.
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"A project to give an identity of cult and respect to the place"
Points of interest
Massimo Mariani
Location and Details
Via Buggianese, Ponte Buggianese
51019
Italy
Massimo Mariani was born in 1951 in the province of Pistoia. He took a degree in 1977 at the School of Architecture of Florence, where from 1980 to 1992 he participated in the teaching activities of Remo Buti.
In 1980 he founded, with A. Casciani, studio Stilema for design and production of experimental furniture and objects. The studio conducted research on design of useful objects and decoration, graphics, exhibition design and interior architecture, participating in many exhibitions, competitions and events on lively the Italian neo-design scene of the early 1980s, including the projects for the exhibition “Conseguenze impreviste” (Prato, 1982), the competitions “Doll’s house” (London, 1982) and “Single-family house in wood” (Ljubljana, 1985), and a series of new objects for home like the Fat Lamps (1984), Restless Cacti (1985), andd the Naturalist’s Suitcase (for the competition “Atelier nouveau”, Seibu department store, Tokyo, 1986).
In 1986 with a group of architects (P. Caramia, D. Cariani, M. Castelvetro, M. Corrado, D. Donegani, S. Giovannoni, M. Josa Ghini, G. Venturini), Mariani launched the Bolidismo movement, which saw speed and ubiquity as the dominant themes of contemporary reality, creating playful contacts between the imagery of design, comics and illustration.
Starting in 1990 his professional activity, with a studio at Montecatini Terme, has focused on interior design and, above all, architecture. He has designed a series of houses, including the Luzzi house at Monsummano Terme (1989-90) and thee Begnini house in Buggiano(1994-98). He has overseen the architectural image and styling of branch offices for several banks in Tuscany. This series of works includes thee costruction of bank buildings in Pontedera (1991-95), Fornacette (1993-95), Poggibonsi (1994-96) and Donoratico (1997-2002), and the Cabel office buildings in Empoli (1992-97) and in Milan (1998). In 1999 his works won first prize in the “Premio Dedalo alla committenza”.
Other maior projects include those for competions for the new CAF industrial complex at Campi Bisenzio (2001) and for a school building in the former Breda area in Pistoia (2002). An elementary school with a new library at Ponte Buggianese and a multifunctional complex in Fucecchio are now under costruction.
Massimo Mariani Architettura e Design
Via Don Minzoni 27
51016 Montecatini Terme (PT) - I
P. 39 0572 766324
F. 39 0572 912742
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