Textile Architecture San Michele Arcangelo

TECHNICAL DATASHEET DESCRIPTION Place: San Pietro Infine (CS), Italy

Year: 2016

Client: COEDI

Engineering: Canobbio Textile Engineering Srl

Area: 120 m2

Fabric: ETFE foil

Type: double layer air cushion

San Pietro Infine is a small town scene of many battles during the Second World War. Suffered violent bombing after which tat he beginning of the XXI century it has been established the "Park of Historical Memory" with the aim to restore and enhance this part of the territory. Inside the park there is the church of San Michele Arcangelo recovered and accessible to the public. It is in this context that it has been created a double-layer ETFE air cushion to cover the hole formed by the collapse of part of the vault. The strengths of this intervention are the transparency and lightness which find in restoration of historical monuments an ideal application.