Paul VI Audience Hall
The Vatican audience hall was from 1964 to 1971 by order of Pope Paul VI. built by Pier Luigi Nervi. This Italian architect best known for his supportless, huge roof structures, especially since its Turin Exhibition Hall (1948 /49).
Description
The Vatican audience hall is usually according to their function ( " Aula delle Udienze Pontificie " ), its architect ( " Sala Nervi " ) or its owner ( " Aula Paolo VI " ) named. It is Aula Paolo VI the common name, which is reproduced in many other languages as (French Salle Paul VI). Your capacity is enormous. In papal general audiences under their huge, by 42 structural ribs parabolic arched ceiling find almost 6500 people with good vision a seat. By removing a portion of the seating is the capacity of the hall on more than 12,000 persons, expandable by removing all the seats on a maximum of 25,000 standing places. In June 1971, the Vatican audience hall was opened as part of a general audience of over 15,000 people.
The interior of the hall is dominated by a 20 meter wide, seven meters high and three meters deep sculpture that stands in the back of the grandstand. It was created in 1975 by the Italian sculptor Pericle Fazzini and represents the resurrection, " La Resurrezione " Jesus is who rises from the crater of a nuclear explosion out. Fazzini wrote:
" Ho Pensato di creare il Cristo come se risorgesse dallo scoppio di questo grande olive grove, luogo di pace delle ultime preghiere. Il Cristo risorge da questo cratere apertosi dalla bomba nucleare: un'atroce esplosione, un vortice di violenza ed energia ".
" I decided to represent the resurrection of Christ in a large olive grove, that peaceful place of his last prayers. Christ rises from a crater to a nuclear bomb has torn open. Cruel explosion, a vortex of violence and energy "
The sculpture, which counts the same time the most important works of the sculptor, is made of bronze and brass and is about 40 tons. The work on her lasted seven years. Twelve years passed between the first contact of the Vatican on the artist and the inauguration of the plant in the audience hall.
On the first floor via the portico of the Vatican audience hall, there is a conference hall for general meetings and extraordinary meetings of the Synod of Bishops. This new synod hall ( " Aula Nuova del sínodo " ) was Paul VI. build a small auditorium. For the first time in 1971 took place there still important meetings of the Synod of Bishops.
The tribune -like part of the audience hall, is at usually the Pope 's seat, is located on vatikanischem territory. The part of the room in which to stay the audience participant belongs, under international law to Italy, but is in the extraterritorial possession of the Holy See.
On the roof of the audience hall of more than 2000 solar panels were installed by the end of 2008, which were awarded in the category of solar architecture and urban development with the European Solar Prize 2008 and a gift of SolarWorld AG. The information necessary for power conversion inverter also come from Germany by SMA Solar Technology AG.
Importance
" The Sala Nervi has seen Architecturally be considered as the most important building of the Apostolic See in Rome since the late Baroque building activity in the 18th century. Christian Romreisenden coined the audience hall next to St. Peter's Basilica as a place of ordinary magisterium of the Pope a proclamation. Pastorally it has its full functionality really only made during the pontificate of John Paul II demonstrated, as many millions of people sought the meeting with the Pope in more than a thousand general audiences. Since April 2005, Pope Benedict XVI. this tradition of general audiences away. Like its predecessor Paul VI. used to keep John Paul II to the public general audience first addressed, then he greeted warmly by the people present. On his explicit request the audience hall was in the eighties, the name " Paul VI. ". "