Uncovering the Enigmatic Secrets of Carlo Atzeni, Maurizio Manias, and Silvia Mocci at the Mystical Chiesa di Santa Chiara!

The project for the Church of Santa Chiara in Sini interprets the relationship between the site and the historical fabric of the village. The building adapts its geometries to the topography of the ground, paying special attention to the articulation in the section. Full and empty spaces are alternated according to a horizontal matrix of control of the areas and volumes, connecting the classroom, ministerial premises, and open spaces, while resolving the steep slope. A stereotomic volume of white concrete stands out in the churchyard with a 1x1x3 proportion and houses the classroom. This prism, with its entrance "engraved" with golden proportions, acquires complexity through the tectonics of the wooden roof, transforming the "fifth façade" into a device for controlling light and hierarchizing space. This regulates circulation and allows for temporal variability. It is an intense and sacral, luminous gathering space, where the Church is understood in its sense of community that meets in a place. The liturgical plant follows the Latin cross but proposes a variation with a lateral process path and an asymmetric roof configuration. The complex for 200 faithful is divided into two levels.

• high floor: churchyard, liturgical hall, sacristy;
• The ground-level plan, punctuated by four patios, serves as the podium for the classroom volume. Constructed with a single material, the concrete reinterprets the stone, symbolizing the ancestral bond between places of worship and the ground, as well as the renunciation of Santa Chiara, the head of the Church.