Progetto della chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo a Ferrara

Andrea Sciascia’s project of the parish of San Giacomo Apostolo in Ferrara, third in the latest edition of the competitions promoted by the CEI, intervenes in a suburban area of the town, affected by profound changes and the inclusion of new roads and infrastructures.The presence of a rondeau, in the propose of the project, with two geometrical figures: a rectangle similar to a square, the church, and elongated spaces where there will be rooms for the parish activities.The introduction of a planimetric cross inside the centre of the liturgical area, allows the position of the altar on the east and to configure the churchyard as a closed space and recollection for a spiritual experience for the faithfuls when they go inside the church.In the project, the materials and the spaces refer to a same logic. The dimension of the main spaces (the same materials and the same colour) emphasizes the sense of unity of the whole building. The proposal for the liturgical area is an overcoming of the old phenomenology tra- dition and it answers to some spatial intuitions of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, according the CEI proposals.