Museo dell’Automobile

An exhibition itinerary developed with a ribbon and iridescent metal surfaces to communicate the world of the automobile through architecture, maintaining the generating idea of ​​Amedeo Albertini from 1960. Camerana’s project combines the new and the existing in a continuum with a covered passage that crosses the courtyard and leads into a full-height atrium, the starting point of a ramp which, recalling that of the Lingotto, creates a new path incorporating the elliptical staircase. A bird-cage dome, also inspired by the world of automobiles, covers the empty central space of the new volume, in which the elevators for the transport of visitors move to the third floor, the starting point of the visit that takes place going downhill the ramp to the ground floor. The new building is wrapped in a skin of micro-blasted stainless steel that reflects external lights and colors and recalls the surfaces of the bodywork. The same material, but with a micro-perforation treatment, protects the representative spaces of the cantilevered volume on the top floor from daytime sunlight, which at night, illuminated from the inside, appears externally as a light box.

credit

Project: Benedetto Camerana (agent)
Location: Turin, c.so Unity of Italy
Realization: Not performed
Client: Municipality of Turin
Procedure: International design competition, fourth classified project
Consultants: Hugh Dutton Associés sarl, Hermann Kohllöffel, AI Engineering s.r.l., Giuseppe Amaro, Teknema Progetti s.r.l., Andrea Tonin (principals)
Functions: Building used as a museum and conference center
Chronology: Design (2005)
Collaborators: Hermann Kohllöffel, Andrea Tonin, Eugenio Bastianini, Claude Balthasart, Mauro Comoli, Nicoletta Pramaggiore, Sandrine Ravet, Catherine Thiemann
Dimensional data: 12,000 square meters
Building cost: € 11,742,799.00
Photo credits: © Camerana & Partners