Luciano Rossetti Mausoleum
CLIENT
Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust
SITE
Springvale Botanical Cemetery
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This is the second major community mausoleum in the cemetery and it provides 1398 casket spaces. The mausoleum also includes 6 family rooms each providing ten casket spaces.
The mausoleum is arranged around a central courtyard and two reflection pools.
Each gallery is characterised by distinctive stone and ceiling finishes to provide choice for buyers. The galleries are also designed to suit sun orientation and exposure to prevailing wind.
The mausoleum is named in memory of a long serving trust member “Charlie” Rossetti.
Images by Trevor Mein
AIA Awards - Jury Statement
“In the Luciano Rosetti Mausoleum, Harmer Architecture has dramatically re-arranged the colonnades of the traditional neo-classical mausoleum into a series of irregularly aligned intersecting linear spaces. Each of these new colonnades has its own orientation and individual relationship to the interstitial gardens. The individuality of the colonnades is further enhanced by applying to each of them a distinct palette of material surfaces. The originality in the use of materials, their careful detailing and resolution is impressive. The architect’s considered use of light, shadow, material, sound and spatial procession, combined to create a place which invites contemplation.
In contrast to the definitive monumental nature of the adjacent neoclassical edifice this contemporary approach has no real beginning nor end and as such was considered to be a more comforting and optimistic environment in which to grieve”
Rob McBride | McBride Charles Ryan
Jury Chair, Institutional New Category
Awards
2006 AIA Architecture Award Institutional New Category
2007 Cement Concrete & Aggregate Australia – Public Domain Awards, Best Overall Project
2007 Cement Concrete & Aggregate Australia – Public Domain Awards, Walls
2007 Cement Concrete & Aggregate Australia – Public Domain Awards, State Winner
Publications
ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW. Issue 105, Luciano Rossetti Mausoleum by Scott Drake
MOMENTUM. New Victorian Architecture. The office of the Victorian Government Architect
Goad, P. et al. ‘Momentum: New Victorian Architecture’, The Office of Victorian Government Australia, Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2012, pp. 170-173
