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Fede Sulla Terra Instabile

Academic

Naples, Italy

2025

Mixed Use, Religious, Humanitarian Aid, Visitors' Centre

Speculative / Roman Catholic Church, NGO's, LPA

Vectorworks, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator

The project investigates whether and how faith can create a psychological buffer, dulling survival instincts and overshadowing the rational fear of danger and uncertainty in Pozzuoli. It presents an architectural response grounded in the city’s physical, cultural, and spiritual realities.

By integrating solutions targeting seismic uncertainties, socioeconomic challenges, and spiritual resilience, it offers a multilayered approach that supports the community physically, spiritually, and culturally - ensuring continuity and strengthening of communities, traditions and beliefs.

Through careful material choices and design rooted in local symbolism, the proposal reinforces the area’s resilience while preserving its identity. Its emphasis on community cohesion and inclusivity enhances its relevance and adaptability in an area strongly shaped by uncertainty and unpredictability.

Blending spiritual and cultural elements with humanitarian aid, the project strengthens the social fabric, providing both immediate relief and long-term significance. It transforms a site, symbol of uncertainty, into one of faith, hope, and protection - demonstrating architecture’s role as a bridge between uncertainty and resilience, belief and function, place and people.

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