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Culture | Restoration

PALAZZINA MASIERI RESTORATION PROJECT

PALAZZINA MASIERI RESTORATION PROJECT

Project Theme: Culture | Restoration

Project Year: 2023-2024
Location: Dorsoduro 3900, Venice

Building Owner: Fondazione Angelo Masieri

Client: Heritage Asset Management | Galerie Negropontes

Building Dimension: 450 Sqm

Design: Barman architects

Project Team: Roberta Bartolone, Giulio Mangano

Contractors: Giuseppe Tonini, Elisabetta Longega, Enrico Trolese, G.R.C. Gruppo Restauro Conservativo, Paolo Giabardo, Vianello srl, CIEM

Lighting: Linea Light Group, Stilnovo

Furnishings: Fantin, Lamm, Vipp

Status: Design and Restoration Completed

Photographer: Fabio Purgino

OUR TASK

In 2023, the Angelo Masieri Foundation established a partnership with Heritage Asset Management and Galerie Negropontes to reactivate the building and the Foundation's cultural program.

Architectural renovations concern restoring part of the internal plasterwork and floors, maintaining the wooden windows, and improving the lighting and technological systems.

Barman architects has directed the restoration project and the site management. After building works is completed, the Palazzina Masieri will host temporary exhibitions and cultural events.

THE CONTEXT

The Masieri Foundation was established in memory of Angelo Masieri, a collaborator of Carlo Scarpa, who tragically died in 1952. The memorial was built on a typical Venetian triangular plot at the corner of the Grand Canal and Rio Novo: in the area was situated a vernacular three-floor palace that should have been replaced by a new building commissioned to Frank Lloyd Wright. He designed a residence and study center for architecture students, but the project was rejected to protect the city's historical appearance from the change.

In 1968, Scarpa imagined realizing the Masieri Memorial by removing the interior walls and floors of the original palace, leaving the historical outer walls as a shell within which entirely modern spaces were constructed. The current building represents continuity and change: the ancient façade, visible from the canal, and the new insertion, a masterpiece of light and details.

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