Temporary worship places for permanent communities

Carla Zito

doi:10.17979/aarc.2013.3.0.5102

Authors

Carla Zito Architect, Ph.D., Independent scolar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2013.3.0.5102

Keywords:

Parish center, competition, communities, prefabrication, emergency

Abstract

When a worship place is a temporary one? What kind of construction characteristics make the difference between a temporary parish church and a permanent one? What does it mean to build a temporary worship place?

Building a place of worship comes not only from urban needs but mainly from pastoral needs and from the will of a community of having a place where meet together. This paper tells about the creation of a small prefabricated wooden church of about 450 square meters, in an area devoted to the building of the definitive parish center, outcome of a diocesan contest.

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¿Cuando un lugar de culto es temporal? ¿Qué tipo de características de construcción marcan la diferencia entre una iglesia parroquial provisional y otro definitivo? ¿Qué significa para construir un lugar de culto temporal?
La construcción de un lugar de culto no sólo proviene de las necesidades urbanas, pero sobre todo de las necesidades pastorales y de la voluntad de una comunidad de tener un lugar donde se reúnen. Este artículo habla de la creación de una pequeña iglesia de madera prefabricada de unos 450 metros cuadrados, con un área dedicada a la construcción del centro parroquial definitiva, resultado de un concurso.

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Author Biography

Carla Zito, Architect, Ph.D., Independent scolar

Carla Zito (Naples, Italy, 1978). Architect, Ph.D. in “History of Architecture and Town Planning” at the Polytechnic of Turin. From 2008 to 2011 had a Post-doctoral fellowship researcher about the relationship between Architecture and Liturgy in Turin (1957-2007). She was a speaker in the 2nd International Congress of contemporary religious architecture “Between the concept and identity”, Ourense (2009); in the Symposium “A Living Presence: Extending and Transforming the Tradition of Catholic Sacred Architecture”, Washington (2010) and in “Modern Catholic Space”, London (2011).

She is a member of Commission of Sacred Art of the Diocese of Turin.

She wrote articles about religious architecture on specialised books and Magazines, she collaborates with Giornale dell’Architettura, a national Italian journal devoted to architectural criticism.

She wrote the book: Casa tra le case. Architettura di chiese a Torino durante l’episcopato del cardinal Michele Pellegrino (1965-77), Effatà, 2013.

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