location: Castel di Lama, Ascoli Piceno
client: Italian Episcopal Conference
gross area: 1.480 m2
plot area : 11.500 m2
cost: 1.635.352,61 Euro
The project try to interpret the church dignity and the parish modesty finding a balance between the church role and the pastoral centre one, being both cornerstone of religious activities. In addition, the project seeks to express a connection with the surrounding area using local and typical forms, spaces and materials and seems to be suspended between tradition and rationality. The form chosen for the liturgical assembly - a square - clearly expresses a direction and a hierarchy, on the other hand, it is a gathering space, to identify the community as God's people on the road to salvation and as a place of hospitality, as an assembly.