CRISTINI STUDIO
ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS

This project concerns a new wing to the existing Murano Glass museum dedicated to contemporary works and temporary exhibitions.

Using a masonry wall-existing overlooking the inner courtyard of the museum-like barrier between old and new, we have created a series of walkways suspended glass on a bath of water. The alternation of small green spaces, passages transparent water works (installed in the water or in not accessible showcases) creates a play of illusions, lights, colors reminiscent of the magical Venetian atmosphere. So are the visitors themselves to integrate with the game of reflections between art and architecture, coming to compose a painting in motion in which the figures overlap or not in a changing and interesting alternation between works of art (out of the water or simply placed in the green spaces) and visitors; an increasing opacity of the glass create situations of doubt, ambiguity.

Stage: project for an architectural competition in 2010: 1st prize

Jury members: cav. Albertini, President Promovetro Murano; G.Carnevale, rector of IUAV, head of the Glass Museum of Murano and the Japanese architect Satoshi Okada

Architects: Federica Cristini, Gianluca Marin, Davide Canton