Project

Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo - Biasca (CH) – 2010

Cathedral Church of the Three Ambrosian Valleys (Leventina Blenio and Riviera) is one of the most important examples of Romanesque architecture in the Canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Built in the late twelfth century, has undergone major transformations in the seventeenth century where the side chapel with stucco on three sides containing paintings on canvas by Camillo Procaccini  was added.

Inside the church affects the slope of the paving stone, due to the fact that the base that supports the building does not fully compensate for the unevenness of natural granite slope on which it is built.

The church fresco cycles of great historical and artistic interest: the most ancient places in the sails of the vaults that rise above the transept, dating to the thirteenth century. The frescoes in the apse and presbytery are the work of the school of Antonio from Tradate that had a workshop in Locarno.

 Intervention

 • The Church is 375 square meters to a height of 10 m
 • The lighting is all LED and is divided into three parts: 

• Apse: Adjustable Multichip LED on two capitals with 50° lenses to illuminate the time.
• House with three aisles: adjustable LED arranged in capitals, with lenses 10° and 50 ° to illuminate the cycle of frescoes of St. Charles Borromeo. The area for the orchestra at the intersection of the transept with the nave, the LED light is adjustable with four scenarios as needed by liturgical celebrations. 
• Chapel Pellanda in the right aisle: Adjustable LED arranged to illuminate the major capitals on oil paintings by Procaccini. 
• Portal: two bodies linear LED lamp were placed to illuminate both the exterior fresco in the lunette above the entrance and internal access to the Church.

Results
• Concentration of the light on the frescoes, more on the area for the orchestra
• Color temperature 3000K
• Total power consumption 260W