A shard between past and future, the mezzanine creates a new space, increasing the overall area of the Pio Monti Gallery up to 100 square meters.
The modular element of the handrail, is the basic design unit of the loft, pleasantly descending and shaping display cases along the entire perimeter of the second room. The key points of the mezzanine are to generate flexible features such as: archive, study and conference. Broken lines that focus on a cusp, like a ship aiming to the column that emerges from the depths, like an arrow to redirecting the attention to the historical memory of the Roman column.
The floor plan has a total area of 70 square meters: a 30 square meters hall, a 35 square meters second room and a 5 square meters in the hallway connecting with the basement floor.
A trapezoidal floor plan that draws its shape from multiple history layers: Roman period, Middle Ages, Baroque gradually to the present day.
The dominant large barrel vaults, arches and walls....