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Casa delle religioni
by Maria Chiara Giorda, Luca Bossi,
​Daniele Campobenedetto & Equoatelier

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​The city of Turin (north-western Italy) has a long history of religious diversity, much of which was driven by migrations and today, the city faces unprecedented religious diversification. In order to cope with religious spatial needs, the city council issued a call for proposals to provide the town with a multi-faith space dedicated to local minorities. The project for a Casa delle religioni was chosen in 2016. A three-year participative process involved twenty religious organizations in the shared definition of needs, practices, and intentions with regard to the common use of space. 
​A former industrial space, in the outskirts of the city, is chosen as a shelter for a shared space amongst different religions. A big hall is divided into four main spaces: two wooden cabins are the home for an orthodox chapel and a little mosque, while the remaining spaces are devoted to other religious activities carried out for communities that are not in need of dedicated spaces, and a library. These partitions however are not fixed. The spatial distribution of the hall can be changed according to different needs of the communities over daily and weekly time.
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​1 – The basic spatial configuration sees the two wooden cabins dedicated to orthodox (red) and Islam (green) worship. At the same time, the other spaces (blue) are devoted to free activities and other forms of prayer.
2 – On Fridays or when the Muslim community needs more space, the mosque cabin can be opened, and the common ground (blue) can be temporarily devoted to Muslim religious activities. 
3 – On Sundays, the common ground can be transformed into an extension of the Romanian Orthodox chapel, hosting activities parallel to the function in the chapel.
4 - On special occasions (conferences, festivals), the two wooden cabins can be open and become an extension of the common ground. In these cases, a portion of both the cabins remains permanently devoted to worship activities.
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​Cultural Project: Maria Chiara Giorda, Luca Bossi, Daniele Campobenedetto
Architectural Project: Daniele Campobenedetto and Caterina Barioglio
Rendering: Equoatelier
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  • Home
  • About
  • Exhibition
    • Dionigi Albera
    • Maria Angel
    • Philippe Antoine Martinez
    • Glenn Bowman >
      • Al-Khadr (series)
      • Sveti Nikola (series)
    • Helen Cornish
    • Susannah Crockford
    • Lene Faust
    • Jackie Feldman
    • Maria Chiara Giorda, Luca Bossi, Daniele Campobenedetto & Equoatelier
    • Emrah Gökdemir
    • Safet HadžiMuhamedović
    • Vanja Hamzić
    • Guy Hayward
    • Jens Kreinath
    • Federica Manfredi
    • Ashim Kumar Manna
    • Reza Masoudi
    • Jason Minton Brown
    • Manoël Pénicaud
    • Marlene Schäfers
    • Jesko Schmoller
    • Tom Selwyn
    • Olga Sicilia
    • Konrad Siekierski
    • Yogesh Snehi
    • Yuri Stoyanov
    • Jill J. Tan
    • Samuel Tettner
  • Symposium
    • About the symposium
    • Yogesh Snehi
    • Glenn Bowman
    • Tom Selwyn
    • Ioan Cozma, Maria Chiara Giorda and Silvia Omenetto
    • Bojan Baskar
    • Dionigi Albera
    • Emrah Gökdemir
    • Yael Navaro
    • Ethel Sara Wolper
    • Yuri Stoyanov
    • Manoël Pénicaud
    • Jens Kreinath
  • Panel
  • Contact
  • Related Projects
    • The Xenia Series
    • CIP Summer School in Inter-Faith Relations
    • Cambridge in Your Classroom
    • Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage Summer School
    • Bosnian Landscapes