Church "Dives in misericordiae" of Richard Meier
Today, for the third episode of our adventures, we face another mini-trip (I hope that you enjoyed the previous year).
The city is the same: Roma, and the architect is the same: Richard Meier, We move, however, on the outskirts, in Tor Tre Teste neighborhood, to visit the famous church of God the merciful, but better known as "Church of Jubilee. "
With these diaries I like to encourage fans to enjoy for a visit (the things that I just mentioned, you speak or talk about all deserve it!) And then open a small parenthesis for those wishing to track the work through the maze of capital (it is not easy find):
Ø by car from major motorway (GRA) exit at 16 (Via Prenestina) direction Roma centro. Continue on the homonymous street, across the roundabout at the intersection with Via E. Longoni (while remaining on via Prenestina). After another km, turn left on Via Tor Tre Teste. Continue for approximately two kilometers on this road then the crossing with Via Angelo Viscogliosi, turn right, go under the bridge-building. Just beyond this building, the church will appear on your left.
Ø By public transport: from the Termini station in Via Amendola go and take the 14 bus with 23 stops for Togliatti. Get off at Togliatti in Molfetta go and take the 556 bus with Tobagi for 6 stops. Get off at Tovaglieri / Ermoli. At 200 meters from the bus stop is via A. Viscogliosi. other 500m and you come to church.
The church, like the other work of Meier in
Rome and in Italy as a whole, had a rather difficult birth: the initial project (competition) dates back to 1996 and was won against opponents like Eisenmann, Tadao Ando, Calatrava, Gerhy . The church had to be finished by 2000 and was inaugurated in 2003.
Here the bureaucracy we entered, but less than usual because the competition, construction, payments were directly managed by the Catholic church.
The problem, of a technical nature, is due to the complicated form that the architect wanted to give the structure (the three huge sails of cement-to-face view, and self-direct contact with the glass of the windows).
With a touch of pride, we must say that the brilliant solution to the problem was given by an Italian company in Bergamo, which produces cement and which has invented and patented a white blend very strong, even eating and self-smog (now Meier is building the new headquarters of this company in the famous red kilometers designed by J. Nouvel in Bergamo).
The same architect has stated that without this technical solution could not build the church as designed.
The photos attached to this diary dating back to 20 March 2005, but our visit was the first day of October 26 2003.
It is not necessary to describe the work, make good photos attached, I can only add that the church is governed by a group of young priests, and that nice, well aware of officiate mass in a masterpiece, a Christian to bear the enormous number of tourists who take pictures inside (never during the functions, I recommend!) and even have sales between "Famiglia Cristiana" and the "Messenger of Saint Anthony", the monograph of Richard Meier.
Buon Viaggio, the next episode.