Geografie dei luoghi sacri urbani: il caso del quartiere di San Salvario a Torino

Relationships between sacred places and the city have acquired, in the post-council dimension, characteristics that can be captured only by pushing beyond the consideration of individuai architectures or types. They are the relationships between the spaces and communities that come into contact which, in new suburbs and the Consolidated city create physical and symbolic geographies that are not immediately clear. The reflection we propose, inspired by research stili in progress, in collaboration with the University of Turin, starts from a doublé track in contemporary religious experience in the Christian context, which rests in turn on a doublé spatial system. On one hand there is a uniform fabric, consisting of the parishes, territorial community centres which are increasingly in trouble in themselves and increasingly seen as a place of access to a particular Service. On the other hand there is a polar system made up of diversified places such as monasteries, ecumenica! centres and basic communities, that often share the urban dimension with the parishes and around which liquid communities gravitate, which are established around common interests and sensitivities. In two different strata, the uniform one and the polar one, they stay in contact and the doublé system is repeated in the microcosm of the individuai parish as much as in the inter-religious dimension resulting from the urban concentration (examples can be found in districts such as San Salvario in Turin and Northern European cities). The parish, like the meeting places and living places in the various declinations of the Christian community, are seeing the practices around which they were originally built being extinguished; they are permeated by dynamic, variable experiences and, at the same time, new spaces and places are taking on the role of meaning the presence of the sacred in the present day This results in the confirmation of the difficulties in operating according to a typological and morphological taxonomy Consolidated by the approach of the historical evolution of spaces and types, and the need to interpret a multitude of unstable customs: it is the dimension of time that breaks in, attributing different functions and meanings to the interior and exterior spaces of architecture according to a certain event.