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a key architectural motor that pushed Scarpas design; nevertheless, it is an element that makes a big part in the cemetery design and the architect’s life. The further chapters grasp on religious views and philosophical studies of philosophers such as: Gaston Bachelard, Edgar Allan Poe and Mircea Eliade, who have described water not only in terms of its physical form, but as a poetic mediator that creates everything that exists. Therefore, the text tries to argue that it is not solid concrete that makes up the Brion complex and frames the water around it, but it is the water that creates the cemetery and reflects the concrete within it, producing a poetic image that shows the true meaning of the design. Water is a mirror that illustrates a real image; it is a mediator between what is living and what is dead. Figure 2. Carlo Scarpa, Brion Cemetery, Treviso, Drawing
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