back to Nicola Pavan – Italy


back to Nicola Pavan – Italy
The public transport in Venice and the history of the ACTV water bus company through boat models, photos, drawings, and graphics. The exhibition is housed in the armory of a nineteenth-century fortress, built by the Austrians at the edge of the Venetian lagoon. The military building is characterized by its brick vault.
Thick and robust walls to which, however, it is not possible hang a single nail in order to preserve the integrity of that precious cultural heritage. And the exhibition project works precisely on gravity and suspension: two raw iron shelves, 20 m long each, fixed by pressure in the windows of the vault that are transformed into luminous display cases, and hide to the visitor the complex fixture system. Five drawers instead work independently as bases for the exhibition of plastics and technical drawings.
Location:ItalyArchitect: Nicola PavanArchitecture Office:120 grammi :: laboratorio di architettura (Carlo Pavan + Nicola Pavan)Lead Architects:Nicola Pavan, Carlo PavanContractor:Tosetto AllestimentiClient: VE.LA. S.p.A., AVM S.p.A.Photographer: Giorgio Bombieri