antonio saporito architecture + design florence

Convent of the nuns Alcantarine

1999 Assisi, (PG),Italy

The Nuns' convent "Alcantarine Francescane"

Project for the artistic direction of the new convent of the nuns "Alcantarine Francescane" to Assisi. Principal idea has been that to create a central body to form of cylinder prepared on two levels of which one to the terrestrial plan entertain the saloon of the lectures while, the other to the first plan the church. In both the levels, the cylinder is constituted by an intermediary portion that welcomes and it connects the church, the saloon and the two side bodies to disposition of the Nuns and for the reception. In I plan it of section, the cylindrical body it ideally represents the "calyx", where in the inferior (room of the lectures) part, there are the believers while, in the superior part the holy (the church) place.