Università Roma Tre

The application theme will cover the design of a church building, and more precisely a parish complex in the district of Decima in Rome. This parish complex, according to the parameters regulated by the Vicariate of Rome, will belong to the type A, with functional spaces organized on limited surfaces.
A difficult subject for its strong symbolic value, in which are associated the need for a coherent spatial thinking on the sacred space of the liturgical hall (architectural scale) and a thought on the urban significance of the ecclesiastical building. A character that in a city like Rome has found over the centuries declinations of high architectural quality, which will be profitable for thought for the definition of the project.
The Parish complex, of contained dimensions, will be able to positively interact with the natural and built environment. To achieve this will require a careful reading of the neighborhood, able to single out the deep characters, physical, topographical, functional, but also metaphorical, of the existing settlement. Clearly visible characters in the INCIS Decima district, the work of a design team that includes among its members two of the most important protagonists of the Italian architectural history of the 20th century: Adalberto Libera and Luigi Moretti. A district that is one of the best examples of postwar public housing built in the capital.
To achieve this integration, it should be paid close attention to the areas of relationship between designed buildings and their surroundings, with particular regard to the definition of the attack on the ground, the open spaces, the collective use areas, the green areas close to the parish complex, and facilities dedicated to car parking. These spaces must be conceived and designed in an integrated manner, such as built portions.

Bibliography:

_ INCIS di Decima district:

P.O.Rossi, Roma. Guida all’architettura moderna, Roma bari, 1990, pp. 243-244.

S. Santuccio (a cura di), Luigi Moretti, Bologna,Zanichelli, 1986.

L. Finelli, Luigi Moretti la promessa e il debito, Roma, 1989, pp. 78-80.

E. Carrano, Luigi Moretti le opere romane, Roma, Prospettive, 2005, pp. 104-109.

L. Montevecchi, Moretti visto da Moretti dalle carte dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Roma, Palombi, 2007, pp. 98-101.


_ Sacred space:

A. Cassi Ramelli, Edifici per il culto. Chiese cattoliche, protestanti e ortodosse- Moschee- Sinagoghe- Costruzioni monastiche e cimiteriali, Milano, Vallardi, 1946.

R. Schwarz: Costruire la chiesa Il senso liturgico nell’architettura sacra, Brescia, Editrice Morcelliana, 1999.

L. Moretti, Dove sono due o tre riuniti nel mio nome … (Matteo 18.20), in “Spazio”, estratti, novembre 1967, ora in F. Bucci, M. Mulazzani, Luigi Moretti opere e scritti, Milano, Electa, 2000, pp. 201-204.

R. Stegers, Sacred buildings, Basel, Birkhauser, 2008.


_ Modern churches in Rome:

S. Mavilio (a cura di), Guida all’architettura sacra Roma 1945-2005, Milano, Electa, 2006.

M. Petreschi, N. Valentin, Chiese della periferia romana 2000-2013. Dal Grande Giubileo all’anno costantiniano, Milano, Electa, 2013.