CASTELLO di SAN MICHELE
Permanent fittings for a museum
Cagliari - Italy
2002

..The project answer consisted in conceiving a simple modular floating panel, almost covering the whole hall’s height, supported by concealed vertical metallic posts having extensible extremities which allow a firm clamping between floor and ceiling and do not leave any damaging mark when dismantled.
On the other side the tangle of the metallic covering structure has been partly obliterated thanks to a velarium consisting of modular pieces of fabric hooked to pivots fixed to the grid’s knots and equipped with stretching springs. The partial permeability to light of this velarium also allows to better diffuse the formerly direct illumination supplied by some of the existing lighting fixtures.

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