ブエノスアイレスの名所の一つが、エビータを初めとする著名人を埋葬したレコレータ墓地。
One of the attractions of Buenos Aires is the Recoleta Cemetery, where Evita and celebrities were buried.
レコレータ墓地の格子状の街路には、びっしりと隙間なく霊廟が立ち並びます。そのスタイルは、新古典主義からアールヌーボー、アールデコまでさまざま。デザインのレベルは、ブエノスアイレスの写しとも言えるほど高く、建築都市の中に、もう一つの建築都市があるような入れ子構造。
ただし、区画の価格の問題なのか、間口が狭く、うなぎの寝床のような形状。その上、それぞれの家族の希望や、おそらくは財力で、デザインや大きさが決められるせいか、一つ一つはブルジョワ的な美しさなのに、全体として見るとバラバラ感が際立ち、高級住宅地のはずが、建て込んだ下町の雰囲気。部分が秀逸でも、まわりへの配慮なしでは、すばらしい景観にはなり得ないという現実世界の写しのよう。
まわりを気にせず、好き勝手に生きるのが、死後の世界か？
In the Recoleta Cemetery, family chapels line the latticed streets closely. Its style ranges from Neo‐Classicism to Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and the level of design is so high as a copy of Buenos Aires. It is just a nested structure, that is, there is another architectural city within the architectural city.
However, probably because of the price of a parcel, a parcel shape is deep and long with a narrow frontage. In addition, each chapel's design and size must had decided by the requests of each family and perhaps by its financial situation. So, though each chapel has a bourgeois beauty, the lack of sensation of unity in the whole is notable. So, it acquires no atmosphere of upmarket residential district but that of the built-up proletariat downtown. It seems to suggest the real world where, even if parts are excellent, it can not be a wonderful streetscape without consideration for the surroundings.
In the world after death, people would not consider their surroundings and they would live as they like?
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