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In his church of San Lorenzo in Torino Guarino Guarini conceived a structural organism that transfers the weight of the dome to the foundations by means of a partially concealed ribbed structure. This rare example of architecture in which form and structure do not coincide is not the result of an eccentric choice of technical virtuosity, but rather a structure mechanism aimed at achieving certain effects that have been knowingly sought out by the architect.
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Cristina Leoncini, Ugo Quarello, “La doppia struttura della chiesa di S. Lorenzo del Guarini, esempio di architettura nella Torino del seicento”, thesis advisor Prof. Arch. Mario Dalla Costa, Politecnico di Torino, faculty of architecture, academic year 1994/95.
For a complete description, see “La doppia stuttura...” op cit., pp. 21, 22, 23.
As Lange wrote, “I believe instead that the archive of papers of the Crown or His Majesty’s Secret Archive, which became property of the state on 1 January 1947, still housed in the Palazzo Reale in Torino, and to be precise as part of the categories of Designs for buildings and Plans of the holdings of the Savoy House in Piedmont, must contain, along with the graphic documentation of the building activities that we are totally lacking regarding the ducal and royal palaces, other drawings relative to the Chapel of the Holy Shroud and S. Lorenzo” (Ritengo invece che il fondo di carte della Corona o Archivio Segreto di S. M., divenuto proptietà demaniale nel 1 gennaio 1947, tuttora conservato nel Palazzo Reale di Torino e precisamente nelle categorie progetto di fabbricati e Planimetrie dei beni di Casa Savoia in Piemonte, non possa non contenere insieme con quella documentazione grafica della vicende costruttive che ci manca assolutamente dei palazzi ducali e reali, altri disegni relativi alla S. Sindone e a S. Lorenzo). Cf. Augusta Lange, Disegni e documenti di G. Guarini, stà in Guarino Guarini e l’internazionalità del barocco, Atti de Convegno, vol. 1, pag 92, Accademia delle Scienze, Torino 1970.
Cf. “La doppia struttura...” op. cit., p. 99
L. Denina, A. Proto, La real chiesa di San Lorenzo a Torino, in L’architettura Italiana, vol. xv, no. III, Crudo, Torino, 1920, pp, 34–38. Denina and Proto did not know about these drawings, as is clear from the section of the “conical vaults”, which they presumed to be a quarter-sphere.
ASTO, Casa di Sua Maestà , periodo 1817–1870 Vol. V, 1925–1826, pp. 191, 192.
ASTO, Casa di Sua Maestà , periodo 1817–1870 Vol. V, 1925–1826, pp. 191, 192.
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Quarello, U. (2009). The Unpublished Working Drawings for the Nineteenth-Century Restoration of the Double Structure of the Real Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Torino. In: Williams, K. (eds) Nexus Network Journal. Nexus Network Journal, vol 11,3. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8978-9_5
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