Palazzo dei Diamanti / Labics
Textual content description offered by the architects. The venture for the Palazzo dei Diamanti consists of an natural collection of interventions aimed on the one hand on the restoration and enhancement of the sixteenth-century complicated and on the opposite on the adaptation of the exhibition areas and exteriors. The venture is pushed by the idea that structure, in contrast to portray, sculpture, or different types of artwork, is a dwelling artwork that can’t solely be contemplated in its magnificence; an artwork which, with the intention to live on, should be loved and, if mandatory, reinterpreted because it has all the time been within the historical past of structure.
The primary intervention involved the principle pre-existing exhibition areas, the so-called Rossetti and Tisi wings. All of the rooms have been outfitted with new extremely technological surfaces, behind which the plant gear is hidden. The brand new linings, which cowl the traditional partitions in order to not alter their consistency, conceal the latest-generation methods able to guaranteeing the thermo-hygrometric efficiency required of a recent artwork museum. Within the Rossetti wing, new Venetian terrazzo flooring had been created and new portals in burnished brass had been inserted in each wings, emphasizing the spatial sequence of the Renaissance palace.
The second intervention took into consideration the rooms of the previous Risorgimento Museum, utterly restored, the place new features have been allotted to assist the exhibition exercise: a cafeteria, a bookshop, a educating room, and a multipurpose room. To enhance this half, the inner courtyards have been requalified by equipping them with new terracotta flooring: interpreted as actual open-air rooms, these locations have turn into an integral a part of the museum itinerary, thus enhancing the peculiarity of the Palace which alternates full and voids, indoor areas and confined outside areas.
The third intervention involved the continuity of the routes – a central theme for exhibition house – each inside and out of doors. An important of these interventions is the creation of the backyard of the connection between the 2 wings of the Palace. As is understood, the principle physique of the constructing has an open planimetric growth, outfitted with a predominant courtyard, contiguous to the entry loggia, which instantly overlooks the rear backyard (initially the orchard) filtered solely by a two-dimensional diaphragm which performs the position of the angle backdrop. The brand new connection venture between the 2 wings, whose prediction already seems within the eighteenth-century prints by Bolzoni, consists of a lightweight, trilithic, important construction, made from wooden – solely partially closed by the glass – which extends into the backyard, emphasizing its predominant geometries.
In step with the spatial construction of the Palazzo – characterised by an alternation of solids and voids – the brand new intervention defines new open-air rooms within the backyard, which lengthen its logic by amplifying its sequence. The construction, in charred wooden, is ready to guarantee good sturdiness and low upkeep; the sliding glass curtain partitions, which defend the trail within the much less favorable seasons, enable for full opening with the intention to restore bodily continuity between the Renaissance courtyard and the rear backyard. The brand new construction, in truth, not solely connects the 2 wings of the constructing however belongs, exactly due to its ephemeral nature, to the backyard, which has additionally been utterly redeveloped.
