location: Alba Adriatica, Teramo, Italy
client: Diocesi Teramo-Atri

Through the modeling of simple, material volumes, organically connected to symbolize the primordial idea of ​​hospitality and familiarity, the two main buildings, full-height, are located at the ends of the lot, parallel to Via Olimpica and Gorizia, in delimit a large rectangular and open space to the west; on the opposite side there is the body of the building on two floors, connecting the two mentioned, within which the rooms serving the church (sacristy and office), the parish rooms (classrooms / meeting room) and the rectory with connections, toilets and technical rooms. In the liturgical hall the stylistic features of the Christian architectural tradition are reinterpreted in an innovative way, summarized by the single nave plan, the gable roof, the "Romanesque" facade: in this, the simplicity of tradition is innovated in the composition of molded travertine blocks according to a rigorous mathematical algorithm that allows prefabrication and subsequent assembly on site, composing a horizontal and vertical movement that ends in the focal point of the single central door, creating a space that bends to welcome and protect the faithful. Internally, the three-dimensional gesture that articulates the main facade is repeated inverted on the back wall that is modeled, moving away from the roof, in a luminous cut on the travertine background where the risen Christ stands out. Similar cuts, albeit smaller, break the material rigor of the roof, illuminating the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, the baptismal front and the penitentiary from above. The frontal material articulation is dissolved along the lateral sides of the classroom which, externally, are treated with plaster mixed with travertine powder, diluting the linearity in the extroversion of the chapel of the most ancient on the left and in the curvilinear gesture that, on the right, connects the liturgical hall to the central body and from here to the other body opposite the parish hall in the alternation of full and empty, straight and curved, like so many hugs.