Roberto Menghi – La cappella di Capo Ceraso, Olbia-Tempio

The chapel, located on the coast and overlooking the bay of Capo Ceraso, represents the most interesting synthesis of Roberto Menghi’s research. The small sacred space, set among the rocks of the Mediterranean scrub, appears as a natural outcrop of the surrounding landscape, almost as if it were the result of a tectonic movement which settled on the terrain as a mound-tumulus. The concept of the design has its most profound meaning in the development of a few simple elements – the wall, the roof, the variations of light and shadow – which, through composition, become architecture. In the construction of the sacred space of the chapel, the tangent elements coincide with the image of the Mediterranean walled house, completely introverted and closed-in on itself.