The construction of a cemetery is a collective program where the spiritual and religious dimensions imply reflection and special care in the definition and qualification of spaces. The cemetery, in addition to the place where dead bodies are deposited, is a space of worship and silence, destined for the living. 
The land intended for the construction of the new Ferreiras cemetery has 21,378 m2, an elongated rectangular shape in the north-south direction and a slope to the south, with an unevenness of about 8m. To the north, the land is limited by the railway line and A22A Norte, and to the south by the urban areas adjacent to Avenida de Malhada Velha and Avenida 25 de Abril.
The Parish Church of São José de Ferreiras is the most significant built reference in the surroundings close to the land. 
It is intended that the set to be built (support building and burial spaces) preserves the character of the place and does not constitute an element of rupture or dissonance in relation to the nearby surroundings or the natural support where it is inserted. 
The planimetric and topographical configuration of the land, as well as the existence of a single access and the assumption of the Mediterranean concept of the cemetery as a “holy field”, demarcated and closed - leads us to define the implantation area as a walled enclosure, with about 85 meters in front by 150 meters in depth.
The space is organized from the very clear marking of a “central alley” to which two main transversal alleys are opposed, which define the implantation of structures of differentiated inhumation. The paths adjacent to the main structure are assumed to be more intimate, in contrast to the central avenue, with a more formal and ceremonial character. 
A “foot-post” path that crosses the terrain from east to west, gives rise to the transversal path with a dissonant direction from the main spatial structure, and establishes the end of the main axis of the cemetery. 
The choice of pavements for the paths makes the structure of the enclosure clear: we chose to mark the main paths and spaces for stopping or staying with the use of “donkey brick” applied to the cleaver, with gravel being used in the remaining spaces.