Completion works of the parish church
“Madonna della Medaglia Miracolosa”
Piazza San Michele, CAGLIARI, Italy
2008

The target of this project was the overcoming of the “architectural” obstacle represented - for disabled people - by the huge difference in height existing between the square (Piazza San Michele) and the only possible access to the church, located about 4,70 meters over. The project is formally inspired by extremely simple and sober compositional principles, if not by a severe minimalism. It actually implies a simple linear sequence of sloping surfaces, alternated with resting landings, turning around a central wall which – because of its wide dimensions in both height and length – plays the role of predominant and organizing element of the whole architectural composition; such role being emphasized by its combination – at its end stretching out towards the square – with an other wall having an encircling semielliptical shape which, while solving the connection between the central wall and the superelevated parvis of the church, defines an enclosed space devoted to rest and socialization...

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