San Luigi Gonzaga Church

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Church “San Luigi Gonzaga” (1954-60) in Trieste, Italy, by Dino Tamburini

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Stefano Perego

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Exterior of the parish church of the San Luigi district. View of the bell tower and church from the left. In the foreground is the garden of the church, the bell tower whose sides taper inward, rising upwards, until it joins in a parabolic U-like structure that constitutes its roof. A full structure (the bell tower) rests on an empty one (the canonical house): a rectangular parallelepiped punctuated by four vertical septa - four window compartments on the first floor and four doors on the ground floor. The left side of the church is shaped at the top by the system of the parabolic vaults and at the bottom by the septa of the side wall, detached from each other by small louvers that run up to the corresponding portions of the roof. The paver is visible, which separates the roof from the side wall, which binds this set of septas and vaults. At a close-up view the main facade that reveals the three- naves structure through the particular trilobed shape - the highest part is that of the central nave and the lowest parts are those of the two side aisles - which closes and concludes the last three parabolic vaults of the roof. The front is served by a wide staircase organized into five ramps and three landings. | Photograph 17.3x23.4 by Arduino Pozzar in 1959.

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Interior of the parish church of the San Luigi. View of the left aisle resumed in the direction of the entrance. In the foreground particular of the wrought iron railing of the presbytery. On the particular left of the arches - whose shape corresponds to the half of an all-round arch (a quarter of a circle). On each arch is grafted a septum of the parabolic vault that tapers downwards. Their texture created by the reinforced concrete formwork adhered to the surfaces is visible. In the background the cover consists of slightly conical parabolic vaults and a series of arch-shaped window-feritoia that follow the profile of the vaults and interspers with them, creating a counterpoint of full and dark bands (the vaults) and empty, clear and transparent bands (the windows-feritoia). After the horizontal caesura that corresponds to the external marker, the slits also continue along the left side wall, creating a gap between full (the septa) and empty (the slits). | Photograph 17.3x23.4 by Arduino Pozzar in 1962.

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Interior of the parish church of the San Luigi district. The central nave, overlooking the altar and presbytery. On both sides are the pillars and arches that separate this wider space from that of the two side aisles. At the top the system of parabolic vaults, interrupted by crevices of light, coming from arch-shaped windows-feritoia, which, although not visible, make readable the texture created by the wooden formwork of the concrete face to face, differently oriented. The texture develops horizontally in the lower flaps of the vaulted, triangular-shaped septae, which graft onto the pillars of the arches, while on all other parts of the vaults, the texture is vertical. At the bottom the texture of the apse sail, almost a fifth for the presbytery and the altar, is oriented vertically until the moment when it tilts to become the closing vault of the roof, where it develops radially with respect to the small lobe of the central core of the ceiling, which instead continues to remain vertically oriented. |Photograph 17.3x23.4 by Arduino Pozzar in 1962.

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Construction works of the Church of San Luigi Gonzaga in Trieste: Detail of the scaffolding (always in wood) of the right side apse and the graft of the subsequent parabolic module in reinforced concrete left exposed. Two carpenters in the foreground. Accidental perspective, point of view in axis. | Photograph 6.7x9.7 by Foto Omnia in 1958.

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Notice of competition for the parish church of the San Luigi district with the description of the requirements for the buildings of the church, the canonical house, the premises for the use of the Pastoral Ministry, the required documents and the conditions of work. The general floor plan of the construction site attached. |Typescript 29.7x42.0 of Parish Church of the San Luigi district. The document is made by the Episcopal Curia of Trieste and Koper in 1955-04-08.

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San Luigi Gonzaga Church

Italy

Dino Tamburini

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Studio Tamburini worked on the project of the Church of the San Luigi in Trieste, San Luigi between 1955 and 1960. The project had a scale of intervention - architectural design, and the intended use - building for worship. It was commissioned by the Episcopal Curia of Trieste and Koper.

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bostjan, November 19th, 2023

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