Project type: Reactivated architecture Client: Paroisse du Sacré-Coeur Site: Ginevra, CH Year: 2020 - 2021 Area: 3'700 mq The project intervenes on the building of more than 150 years of history of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Geneva, following the fire in the summer of 2018 that seriously compromised almost all of its building spaces.

A house of worship also constitutes a place of identity and image, capable of communicating the memory of the past and needing to be interpreted with the sensitivity and culture of our time. "Architecture carries with it the idea of the sacred ..." In a work of architecture, the first act is to draw the perimeter, distinguishing and separating the interior from the exterior. A "sacred" act isolates a new autonomous architectural reality from the infinite "macrocosm" that surrounds it. In the case of the Sacré-Coeur, the perimeter evolves upward and into the surrounding frame. Opening the roof means flooding it with natural light and at the same time connecting the spaces with the sky.