Nuova Chiesa di Cannavà
TITLE
Parrocchia di “Santa Teresa di Gesù Bambino” intitolata ai Santi Louis e Zelie Martin
CLIENT
Diocesi di Oppido Mamertina PALMI (RC)
TIPOLOGY
Restoration and enlargement
SURFACE
390 mq
STATE
In progress
If the identity of a large city lies in the stratification of history and the recognizability of some iconic buildings, the identity of a small rural village, such as Borgo Cannavà, nestles in the details. In these microurbanities we work with chisel: the new buildings must be inserted as mosaic tiles, working for affinity and integration without acting as mimesis, that is hiding the new in the existing creating a false historical and aesthetic, but through a dialogue between genius loci and innovation.
The new Church dedicated to Saints Louis and Zelie Martin takes up the typology of the rural artifact investing the traditional shapes and materials of a new meaning, forming with the existing building a double courtyard system (one interior serving the parish works and the other, which is actually the churchyard, which serves as a collective filter space between the church and the city) recalling the morphological layout of the village, giving both squares a spatial quality of collective type as well as placing them as a threshold between the sacred and the profane.
It remainds to deep and archaic meaning of assembly and to some symbols such as orientation, frontality, going towards, gathering, the other and elsewher
The Parish of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, founded in 1979, insists on a diocesan territory – of ancient origins – that from the Aspromonte moves towards the plain of Gioia Tauro, distributing itself with polycentric morphology articulated in different inhabited nuclei, with agricultural vocation, that in recent years are experiencing a repopulation by young families.
In this fragmentary reality, intimately linked to the genius loci, the new parish complex takes on the role of geographical and social becoming a preferential place of aggregation and recognition for the inhabitants who have chosen to live in contact with their historical and cultural roots.
Landmark
Following an imaginary path from the town that approaches the Church, the site opens onto the public road with the churchyard-square that leads directly to the main entrance; on the private road, in continuity with the adjacent courtyard marked by the bell tower, opens the square of the Via Crucis from which you access the wing of the offices and the sacristy, the green equipped for sports, the premises of the oratory and parish works. In particular, for the building of the already existing pastoral works, a garment has been proposed composed of an enclosure system that surrounds the existing building and characterizes it in a new way to relate it more effectively to the new Church.
In fact, it is wrapped by a system of light and permeable screens that protect it without closing it with respect to the environment, creating at the same time a garden concluded to stay and play in the multifunctional sports field, a place of rest and intergenerational aggregation.
The new church complex is composed not only of the liturgical hall but also of an orthogonal volume where the sacristy is directly connected to the altar and the office – which in turn has an independent entrance and is connected to two stores and services. As for the access to cars and therefore the presence of parking areas, it was decided to organize a buffer-zone band around the lot, a service area where the driveway is organized perimeter along with a series of online parking, leaving intact and pedestrian all the internal surface for the use of the Church and parish works.
The volume of the Church is a single room and takes up the form and meaning of the first ecclesias, referring to the deep and archaic meaning of assembly and to some symbols such as orientation, frontality, going towards, gathering, the other and elsewhere.
Credits
PROJECT LEADER AND COORDINATOR
Arch. Maria Teresa Morano
DESIGN ARCHITECTS AND SAFETY COORDINATOR
Tstudio – Guendalina Salimei
STRUCTURE
AI Engineering S.r.l.
MEP
AI Engineering S.r.l.
LITURGICAL ASPECTS
Arch. Francesco Ragno
Photography
Render Tstudio
Nuova Chiesa di Cannavà
TITLE
Parrocchia di “Santa Teresa di Gesù Bambino” intitolata ai Santi Louis e Zelie Martin
CLIENT
Diocesi di Oppido Mamertina PALMI (RC)
TIPOLOGY
Restoration and enlargement
SURFACE
390 mq
STATE
In progress
If the identity of a large city lies in the stratification of history and the recognizability of some iconic buildings, the identity of a small rural village, such as Borgo Cannavà, nestles in the details. In these microurbanities we work with chisel: the new buildings must be inserted as mosaic tiles, working for affinity and integration without acting as mimesis, that is hiding the new in the existing creating a false historical and aesthetic, but through a dialogue between genius loci and innovation.
The new Church dedicated to Saints Louis and Zelie Martin takes up the typology of the rural artifact investing the traditional shapes and materials of a new meaning, forming with the existing building a double courtyard system (one interior serving the parish works and the other, which is actually the churchyard, which serves as a collective filter space between the church and the city) recalling the morphological layout of the village, giving both squares a spatial quality of collective type as well as placing them as a threshold between the sacred and the profane.
It remainds to deep and archaic meaning of assembly and to some symbols such as orientation, frontality, going towards, gathering, the other and elsewher
The Parish of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, founded in 1979, insists on a diocesan territory – of ancient origins – that from the Aspromonte moves towards the plain of Gioia Tauro, distributing itself with polycentric morphology articulated in different inhabited nuclei, with agricultural vocation, that in recent years are experiencing a repopulation by young families.
In this fragmentary reality, intimately linked to the genius loci, the new parish complex takes on the role of geographical and social becoming a preferential place of aggregation and recognition for the inhabitants who have chosen to live in contact with their historical and cultural roots.
Landmark
Following an imaginary path from the town that approaches the Church, the site opens onto the public road with the churchyard-square that leads directly to the main entrance; on the private road, in continuity with the adjacent courtyard marked by the bell tower, opens the square of the Via Crucis from which you access the wing of the offices and the sacristy, the green equipped for sports, the premises of the oratory and parish works.
In particular, for the building of the already existing pastoral works, a garment has been proposed composed of an enclosure system that surrounds the existing building and characterizes it in a new way to relate it more effectively to the new Church.
In fact, it is wrapped by a system of light and permeable screens that protect it without closing it with respect to the environment, creating at the same time a garden concluded to stay and play in the multifunctional sports field, a place of rest and intergenerational aggregation.
The new church complex is composed not only of the liturgical hall but also of an orthogonal volume where the sacristy is directly connected to the altar and the office – which in turn has an independent entrance and is connected to two stores and services. As for the access to cars and therefore the presence of parking areas, it was decided to organize a buffer-zone band around the lot, a service area where the driveway is organized perimeter along with a series of online parking, leaving intact and pedestrian all the internal surface for the use of the Church and parish works.
The volume of the Church is a single room and takes up the form and meaning of the first ecclesias, referring to the deep and archaic meaning of assembly and to some symbols such as orientation, frontality, going towards, gathering, the other and elsewhere.
Credits
PROJECT LEADER AND COORDINATOR
Arch. Maria Teresa Morano
DESIGN ARCHITECTS AND SAFETY COORDINATOR
Tstudio – Guendalina Salimei
STRUCTURE
AI Engineering S.r.l.
MEP
AI Engineering S.r.l.
LITURGICAL ASPECTS
Arch. Francesco Ragno
Photography
Luigi Filetici
