Jan KAPLICKY - Enzo FERRARI HOUSE Museum

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Jan KAPLICKY + A.Morgante - (2012) - Enzo FERRARI Museum (Modena, Italy), The museum is dedicated to motor racing legend and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari. Join my PAGE on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DiCAPUA.Channel Join my GROUP too: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/DiCapua.Channel/ The museum is dedicated to motor racing legend and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (1898 - 1988), the museum comprises exhibition spaces within the early nineteenth century house where the motor racing giant was born and raised, and its adjoining workshop, as well as a separate, newly constructed exhibition building. In 2009 Jan Kaplicky died suddenly before the completion of the project and supervision of the work was entrusted to Andrea Morgante, former associate director of the study and currently director Shiro Studio. Andrea Morgante (Milan, 1972) has worked in Future Systems for nearly 8 years, most of this time working closely alongside Jan Kaplicky. The sculpted yellow aluminium roof with its ten incisions - intentionally analogous to those air intake vents on the bonnet of a car - allows for natural ventilation and day lighting, and both celebrates and expresses the aesthetic values of car design. With its 3,300 square metres of double-curved aluminium, the roof is the first application of aluminium in this way on such a large scale. Working together with boat builders whose familiarity with organic sculpted forms and waterproofing made them the ideal partner, and cladding specialists, the form is constructed from aluminium sheets fitted together using a patented tongue and groove system. The bright Modena yellow of the roof is Ferrari's corporate colour, as seen on the Ferrari insignia where it forms the backdrop to the prancing horse. It is also the official colour of Modena. Kaplický wanted to create a sensitive dialogue between the two exhibition buildings that showed consideration for Ferrari's early home and underscored the importance of the museum as a unified complex made up of several elements. The views out of the new exhibition building dramatically frame the house and workshop, while views from outside the house and workshop immediately reveal the function and content of the new exhibition building. The height of the new exhibition building reaches a maximum of 12 metres - the same height as the house - with its volume expanding below ground level. In addition, the new building gently curves around the house in a symbolic gesture of appreciation. The glass façade is curved in plan and tilts at an angle of 12.5 degrees. Each pane is supported by pre-tensioned steel cables and is able to withstand 40 tonnes of pressure. The technical specification of these panes and cables means that greater transparency in the façade is achieved with maximum functionality. In the summer months a thermo-sensor activates the windows in the façade and roof allowing cool air to circulate. With 50% of the internal volume of the main exhibition building set below ground level, geothermal energy is used to heat and cool the building. It is the first museum building in Italy to use geothermal energy. The building also employs photovoltaic technology and water recycling systems. Visitors entering the new building have uninterrupted views into the entire exhibition space: a large, open, white room, where the walls and floor transition lightly into one another and are perceived as a single surface. A stretched semi-transparent membrane spreads light evenly across the roof, and in combination with the slits running from side to side which allow air to escape and give a ribbed effect, recalls the language of a car interior. A bookshop and café are situated to one side of the entrance and facilities to the other. Both are painted the same Modena yellow as the roof and take the form of blister-like pods. A gently sloping ramp gradually leads the visitor around the building from the ground floor to the basement level, with display stands designed by Morgante punctuating the circulation path. These stands lift the cars 45 centimetres so that they can be viewed from different angles and appreciated as works of art rather than objects simply placed in a room. Up to twenty-one cars can be displayed in this open space at any one time. Supplementary exhibition material is displayed in leather cases located along the perimeter wall. At the bottom of the ramp and directly below the entrance, an audiovisual room forms a permanent part of the exhibition. A flexible teaching space and a conference room with a carved out opening allowing views up into the entrance area are located next to it. . Music by Silent Partner - Don't Turn Back ALBUM - YouTube Audio Library . Filmed with Canon EOS 7D http://www.canon.it/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_7D __________________________________________________ by Franco Di Capua archiect .