A collection of Etruscan vases in a uniquely evocative space
The result of a private commission, the project for a museum of Etruscan art was born out of the desire of the Luigi Rovati Foundation to create a place to showcase its art collections, principally a collection of Etruscan vases. The project entails rehabilitation of an existing building and the enlargement, underground, of an exhibition area which will be open to the public, articulated into three main interventions:
The first is the expansion of the underground level of the property and the construction of the museum underground that will house the collection of Etruscan vases and other artifacts; the second is the renovation of the nineteenth-century Bocconi-Rizzoli-Carraro palace; the third concerns the large garden at the rear of the property, which the client has decided to return to its original character, with the intent of protecting tree species of historical value, emphasizing the harvest aspect that the garden manifests to visitors from the main entrance hall of the palace.
The landscape rehabilitation project was designed in an accord with the Superintendence for Architectural and Landscape Heritage.
Location: Milan, Italy
Year: 2016 – under costruction
Client: FIDIM – Fondazione Luigi Rovati
Type: Order
Project: Mario Cucinella Architects
Team: Mario Cucinella, Enrico Iascone, Damiano Comini, María Dolores del Sol Ontalba; Silvia Conversano, Dario Castellari, Luca Sandri, Enrico Pintabona, Irene Sapienza, Giovanni Sanna, Martina Bucciti, Wallison Caetano, Eurind Caka, Flavio Giaccone, Ernesto Tambroni, Chiara Tomassi, Davide Cazzaniga. Models: Yuri Costantini, Andrea Genovesi
Interior Design and Exhibit: Mario Cucinella Architects, Mario Cucinella, Giovanni Sanna, Davide Stolfi, Lucrezia Rendace, Donato Labella, Michela Galli
Visual: Pictury Archiviz, Alessia Monacelli
Building Services Engineering: Manens – Tifs
Structural engineering: Milan Ingegneria
Landscape Architecture: Greencure and Landscape, Marilena Baggio
Fire and Safety Design: Gae Engineering
Acoustic Engineering: Biobyte
Artistic Supervision: Mario Cucinella Architects, Enrico Iascone, Damiano Comini, Giovanni Sanna
