Who does not know Venice?
We will have seen the image we have in mind a thousand times on TV, and many of you have surely seen it.
What I would like to tell you today is the secret Venice, the hidden one behind the intervention of a very sensitive lover of architecture: Carlo Scarpa.
Yes, because even though he was not an architect he designed the restoration of this building, transforming it into poetry.
I'm talking about the foundation "Querini Stampalia", located in historic Venice, currently used as museum.
It is unknown to the large daily crowd of visitors, but it completely extols the magic.
It is the 50s of the last century, and the existing building needed a restoration, as the brackish water had ruined the walls and the building was in degraded condition.
The client had the need to solve the problem, avoiding the entry of water to the ground floor of the building.
The genius of Carlo Scarpa transformed what should have been an obstacle to the construction in a design element, leaving the water free to come into the building.
Scarpa accompanies it in an ad hoc path, divided into channels, cracks, small indoor pools, playing with small differences in altitude and creating a unique, almost sacred atmosphere.
The effect on the days of high water is wonderful, the architect's intervention on the existing historical construction is very well readable.
Time is stratified within the Scarpa project, the old masonry - or better to say - the ancient walls remains in view surrounded by the * new * project that follows precise logic of the geometric form.
The seasons of the internal garden mark the time, a continuous cycle that can be perceived through the large invisible windows.
A magical place, from which I advise you to be amazed live.
(photo by Francesco Castagna)
(photo by Francesco Castagna)