La nuova idea di cupola : teatri sacri e profani nell’Europa d’età barocca tra storia e rappresentazione

2023

A remarkable and diverse series of ceiling structures emerged between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in several European cities, aiming to offer a theatrical approach to architectural space. This development unfolded amidst the widespread use of frescoed ceilings or hemispherical domes supported by drums and pendentives inspired by Roman models. Designing and building systems consisting of multiple domes, open with oculi, superimposed or surmounted by lanterns, adorned with frescoes or galleries, and featuring light and music chambers required expertise in optics, perspective, acoustics, and, in some cases, even stereotomy. These skills were necessary to transform spaces in both r…

Guarino Guarini in Francia e la casa teatina di Sainte-Anne-la-Royale

2019

LO STUDIO DELLE MATRICI GEOMETRICHE DEL PROGETTO PER LA CHIESA DEI PADRI SOMASCHI A MESSINA ATTRAVERSO LA MODELLAZIONE DIGITALE

2016

Il contributo è dedicato all'analisi delle geometrie sottese al progetto della chiesa per i Padri Somaschi di Messina di Guarino Guarini, progetto non datato e mai realizzato, noto grazie alla pubblicazione all'intero del trattato Architettura Civile dell'architetto modenese. L'indagine si avvale del processo di ricostruzione digitale della chiesa, che ha consentito un approfondimento delle geometrie che informano ogni singolo elemento dell'architettura, nonché del constante confronto con le opere esistenti d Guarini, in particolar modo la chiesa di San Lorenzo e la cappella del SS. Sudario di Torino.

La chiesa dei Gesuiti di Noto antica: indagine e ricostruzione digitale

2019

The church of the Jesuit Order in the ancient city of Noto was destroyed, as the rest of the city, by the earthquake that stroke the Oriental part of Sicily in 1693. Thanks to recent researches conducted into the EFIAN Project (Experimental Fruition Ingenious Ancient Noto) it is possible to retrace the complex history of the building, realizing a 3D model of a hypothetical configuration of the complete church as well. The comparison between surveys and archival documents (especially plans preserved at the BnF) revealed also that the church was uncomplete at the date of the earthquake. Moreover, the layout of the ruins doesn’t match with the known drawings of the first half of the XVII centu…

Il progetto di Juvarra per la scala di Palazzo Spadafora a Messina, analisi e ricostruzione digitale

2017

The project by Juvarra for the stair hall of Palazzo Spadafora in Messina, analysis and digital reconstruction This paper presents the results of an historical, architectural and geometrical study on the project by Filippo Juvarra for the stair hall of Palazzo Spadafora in Messina. Some drawings describing the project are today part of different album by Filippo Juvarra preserved in New York and Parigi and show different versions of the stair hall. Although conceived in the first part of Juvarra's career, in 1705, the complex project for Palazzo Spadafora is characterized by originality and sperimentalism, expecially in relation to the panorama of central and southern Italy in the first hal…