SANFELICE PALACE, THE HOUSE OF A GENIUS: SOME INSIGHTS ABOUT THE GEOMETRICAL RELATIONS

The work of Ferdinando Sanfelice (1675-1748) was always subject to an extensive and authoritative studies, carried out in particular by the context of historical disciplines [1], but it also attracted the interest of eminent researchers in the field of the architectural design [2]. That is because the architectural production of Sanfelice expresses, in the spatial and formal composition (always brilliant), a complexity of ideas and important elements that determine the different and multidisciplinary interest. This work aims to integrate the wealth of knowledge that many authoritative studies helped to create, going to deepen, through the specific tools of survey and representation, some aspects of Palazzo Sanfelice - personal abode of the genial architect - and so, the research of the original features of its design. The contribution of that particular approach, based on the analysis performed through the architectural and material survey, rises not only to the role of fundamental support to other types of researches, but also in giving new elements to read the monument. Especially when the object of the research has some extraordinary peculiarities as in this building, that hides beyond the remarkable and noble front - in the privacy of the two inner courtyards - the most valuable product of the capacity design of Sanfelice, brilliant architect and defined today really modern, with an unusual ability in design, simulation and spatial control.