This parish complex opens with a large square containing the church forecourt the porch of which filters and distributes all the spaces for religious and social activities such as the hall for events, the classrooms for catechism, the priest's house, the weekday chapel, the sacristy and various other spaces. Beneath the church there is a carpark for the congregation's vehicles and the complex is surrounded by spaces for sports and recreational activities as requested by the client.
The central nave seems suspended thanks to two great prestressed concrete beam along the whole of its length.
The cladding of the vault is in onyx and alabaster and the iconographic images are by an artist who gives form through painting to an ancient song akatistos to the Virgin Mary in the tradition of the first Christians.
Status: Competition Entry
Location: Naples, IT
My Role: Member of Studium Architecturae's team
Additional Credits: Designer: Studium Architecturae
Artists: Americo Amedeo Mazzotta, Flavio Senoner
Liturgist: Don Andrea Bellandi