Contracting autority: ARCCH
Design: Claudio Baldisserri (Chief Architect), Lorenzo Sarti, Silvio D’Amore, Massimo Majowiecki.
Project manager: Tiziano Dapretto
Construction: 2004

We have studied the ARCCH area redesigning it in its perimeter and organizing it the new purposes. ( Shelters for five churches in Lalibela). A big parking for twelve cars and eleven buses with an autonomous entry will free the existing main gate, which today is always full of cars, thus rendering it to its original aspect of monumental and religious gate. Another pedestrian entrance, the main tourist one, will instead introduce to a set course composed of tuffs separators on which is leant a fence formed by small eucalyptus trunks six meters high. It will be a course which in its transparency will lead the visitor from the ticket office to the churches area entering in it almost in an unexpected way. I twill have to be surprise and a great wonder. Also the visitors coming from the parking will be invited, almost obliged to follow this ideal path, led under the iron and Tevlar shelter. The new building will be built with tuffs small blocks. The roofing is built with painted iron tubes of adequate diameter. These are the main structure which is leant on one side the separators formed by small blocks of tuff 4 meters high and on the other side on the same building and on the big flared pillar also of tuff located at the entrance of the parking. Among the separators is placed the eucalyptus fence inclined toward the churches as to protect them . Above the structure, absolutely horizontal, are leant the necessary purlins of variable height which sustain a micro-perforated inclined net which is in turn rendered waterproof through a white Tevlar sheet. We can say that we have proceeded in the making of the building following the objects, each one defined by its autonomy and individuality, which overlapping and joining together become a unique, simple a complicated organism.