Callosity border thickening

Aerial view.

Project Details

• Project Name: Oratorio Parrocchiale San Giovanni Bosco
• Client: Pedrengo parish council
• Project Type: Semi Public facilities
• Principal Designer/s: Alessandro Martinelli
• Design Team: Silvano Martinelli, Ornella Bonomelli
• Contractor/s: Impresa Brignoli
• Date of commencement of project: July 2004
• Date of completion of project: June 2006
• Location of site: Pedrengo (BG 24066) Italy
• Site Area: 3.100 sqm
• Built-up Area: 1.200 sqm

Inner view.

Words from the architect

This project consists in a building containing public facilities administrated by the facefronting church.

Outer view.

This project is like a political statement: it thickens the lot perimeter; it makes the border porous on the inner side, where people inhabit it, and solid on the outer, where the city need an urban facade and a stronger definition.

Detail terminal point left.

The structure is conceived composed by three parallel layers perforated depending the internal fluxes (and the way they connect to the external ones) and the needed amount of light.

Detail terminal point right.

An outer crust of bricks wraps & protects the building looking for contestual resonance with ancient local buildings.

More photographs

Entrance hall, upper view.

Entrance hall, lower view.

Detail balcony left.

Detail balcony right.

Chapel view.

Credits

• Text, Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs by Chiara Tansini & Courtesy of the Pedrengo parish