Il villaggio, l’incrocio, la casa, la chiesa, la croce Complesso parrocchiale di Santa Chiara a Sini = The Village, the Crossroads, the House, the Church, the Cross. Parish Church Complex of Santa Chiara in Sini

Carlo Atzeni

Co-prime

;Silvia Mocci

Co-prime

2022-01-01

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Abstract

The project for the Church of Santa Chiara in Sini, a small village in the Sardinian interior, offers an opportunity to rewrite a portion of the fabric of the historic centre, with a process-driven approach which considers long-term action and the continuity of places as the paradigms for reinterpreting the weaves of tradition and renewing meaningful relations with the community. The inward-looking character of the traditional courtyard-house fabrics, the essentiality of the composition and the use of a mono-material approach are the principles borrowed from the building culture of these places, with the aim of conceiving a new autonomous architecture which aims to be rooted in the place and combined with the dejà-là; walls, enclosures and patios are just a few of the typological and lexical elements that the project makes use of as operational and communicative tools in relation to the pre-existing context.