Article source: OFL Architecture 

The project for the new Redemptoris Mater parish complex of Cinisi (PA) was conceived as a little campus of religious faith. It is a singular entity of comfortably inhabitable spaces intimately related to each other. The strong spiritual impact of the complex arises from its dialog with its historical, artistic, and social context, and from the holistic deployment of architecture with fundamental building practices for people of today – as it does in the synergy between music and biology, between agriculture and sociology, and between psychology and religion.

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• Architects: OFL Architecture
• Project: MEMORIA – A Sicilian Chruch
• Location: Cinisi (PA), Italy
  
• Client: Arcidiocesi of Monreale and Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
• Architecture and concept: Francesco Lipari
• Liturgist: Suor M. Cristina Cruciani
• Artist: Cesare Inzerillo
• Team: Eleonora Menichelli, Luca Bullaro, Vanessa Todaro, Gabriel Belli, Sebastian Di Guardo, Marzia Messina, Ilja Burchard, Joshua Mackley, Elif Tan, Ludmilla Cohen
• Engineering: DOF Engineering
• Energetic strategies: Fabrizio Pizziconi
• Lightning studies: Giorgio Butturini
• Acoustic: Giancarlo Bianchi
• Ceramic project “Le Pietre di Cinisi”: Ceramiche Bevilacqua
• Artistic glass project: Gianni Lucchesi
• Maquette: Lucchetti srl
• 3D optimization: Arturo Tedeschi
• Formwork Peri: Marco Tramajoni
• Concrete Italcementi: Luciano Padalino
• Area: 9000 sqm
• Year: 2015

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