SAN ROMANO CHURCH

Project: MATTEINI+ASSOCIATES
Marco Matteini with Riccardo Guidi, Nazario Scelsi
Collaborators: Barbara Baccellini, David Becagli, Fabrizio Niccolai, Bruna Santandrea
Project management: Marco Matteini
Client: Episcopal Curia of Pistoia – Parish of San Romano
Chronology: 2002-2006 (design), 2007-2013 (construction)

The project involves the construction of a liturgical main hall and annexed service areas, eight rooms and a multi-purpose hall. Located in an area of particular landscape and environmental value with olive grove terraces, the project is adapted to the morphology of the place by integrating it with existing crops: simple volumes, covered with slabs of stone, are articulated on three levels connected by indoor and outdoor passages, for even partial and separate use of the single parts that mediate the transition from the surrounding edified area and the landscape. Slanting lights characterize the liturgical hall space, while the stained glass windows of the service rooms with outdoor blinds made of wood contribute to bioclimatic adjustment during different seasons.