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The convent is in a quiet location immediately to the west of the Villa Doria Pamphilj, just off the Via Aurelia Antica. The convent itself is of no interest, having two parallel rectangular blocks of different sizes, connected by an enclosed corridor. The separate chapel has its entrance off the latter. |
The convent is in a quiet location immediately to the west of the Villa Doria Pamphilj, just off the Via Aurelia Antica. The convent itself is of no interest, having two parallel rectangular blocks of different sizes, connected by an enclosed corridor. The separate chapel has its entrance off the latter. |
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| − | The chapel, in contrast, has an interesting form. It starts with a tall |
+ | The chapel, in contrast, has an interesting form. It starts with a tall octagonal nave, with a frame in reinforced concrete with red brick infill. The concrete beams and piers are left exposed. The walls are blank, except for a window strip at the top of each just under the roofline. |
| − | The roof is made up of |
+ | The roof is made up of seven pitched triangular sectors in a dull red composition, separated by gullies and meeting at a grey conical spirelet. |
| − | However, the far sector of the |
+ | However, the far sector of the octagon is missing and the sanctuary roof is inserted into its space in the plan. The sanctuary is three and two half sides of a hexagon, with one side forming the far wall of the sanctuary, two diagonal walls occupying full sides of the hexagon and two short walls joining halfway along the far diagonal walls of the octagon. Hence, the sanctuary has the form of a very large apse wrapping around the octagon in the plan. Its walls are blank brick again, but with no window strips. instead, at the top of the far wall is a large trapezoidal window tucked under the sanctuary roof. The latter is a triangular sector, joining the spirelet at its tip but with a lower pitch slope than the nave sectors. |
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| − | A similar arrangement to the sanctuary is provided at the entrance, where a low five-sided entrance bay hugs the front three sides of the hexagonal nave. The far walls of this, abutting the nave, are parallel. A pair of covered corridors runs from the far corners to the sanctuary, along the sides of the nave. |
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