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Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione

SALA DELLE CAPRIATE AT PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE

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Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini

ARCHITECTS
CN10 architetti

LEAD ARCHITECT
Gianluca Gelmini

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
KREA allestimenti

MANUFACTURERS
3M

PHOTOGRAPHS
Gianluca Gelmini

AREA
500.0 m2

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Città Alta, Bergamo, Province of Bergamo, Italy

CATEGORY
Museums & Exhibit, Renovation

Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini

Text description provided by architect.

The project provides for a new set-up of the "Sala delle Capriate" in the “Palazzo della Ragione” of Upper Bergamo.

The building dates back to the XII century and represents the physical and functional center of the historic city.

It is the core of a system of open public spaces and it directly relates to them on different sides. Once the building stopped to host the municipality, the upper room changed a series of different functions.

Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini

Today its walls are covered with a significant review of art pieces collected over time from different buildings of the city.

The result is a minimal intervention made of a suspended system of hexagons, intended as gazes over the city: like the circles drawn on the embroidery of the colored windows, the suspended structure puts on display the excellence of the territory.

This is exactly as it occurs in the cellars of the beehive, where the repetition of the hexagonal frame becomes the structure where life happens.

Similarly, the hexagons of the project can become light, sound, image, space. It is a dynamic system of possible configurations that transform the room according to the given event and program.

Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini

The hexagonal mesh is dimensioned coherently with the pace of the wooden trusses. The result is a simple and modular composition, made out of the combination of beams and joints.

The beams incorporate in their own structure the technological solutions necessary to set in the room different arrangements.

They host indeed the technical devices like lightning, both fixed and movable, sound and video systems, motorized projection tarps and hooks to hang panels and other equipment. The fixing system that allows hanging the hexagons to the trusses is located on the joints.

Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini

The whole structure can be easily lowered thanks to a motorized solution, in order to guarantee fast changes of setting, a simple maintenance and a better management of the space. The new set-up is completed on the ground floor by a system of hexagonal structures with the same dimension of the suspended one, that can be freely arranged in the room.

They are made of modular elements that increase the number and the complexity of the different configurations of the room.

Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini


Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini


Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Hexagon Scheme


Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Panels Distribution Diagram
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Possible Layouts Diagram
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Light Diagram
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Audio and Surveillance Diagram


Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
Axonometric
Sala Delle Capriate At Palazzo Della Ragione
© Gianluca Gelmini

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