San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT 

San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT 


The open and organic architecture of the parish marks a contrast with the heavy and compact center of the city with a radially undulating roof that reinterprets the archetypal form of Romanesque and Gothic aisles through nature.


Obra Work
Iglesia y Centro Parroquial de San Giacomo, Ferrara (Italia)
San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara (Italy)

ClientesClients
CEI Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, Parrocchia di San Giacomo Apostolo

Arquitectos Architects
Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT

Equipo Team
Benedetta Tagliabue, Joan Callis (arquitecto principal lead architect); Valentina Nicol Noris (coordinadora de diseño design manager)

Colaboradores Collaborators
Studio Iorio (estructura structure); Beatrice Malucelli (ingeniera local local engineering); Studio Simax (instalaciones mechanical engineering)

Artista artist
Enzo Cucchi

Liturgista Liturgist
Don Roberto Tagliaferri

Constructora Contractor
Costruzioni Tiziano Geom. Corrado SRL

SuperficieSurface
iglesia church 710m² + sala parroquial, aulas y rectoría parish hall, classrooms and rectory 873m² + paisajismo landscape 600m²

Fotografía Photographs
Paolo Fassoli; Marcela Grassi