The
new bookshop and numismatics store Rome
is located in the immediate vicinity of the historic building occupied for
several decades by the Institute.
The
design and construction of new spaces is based on a synthesis between
historical memory and the need for renewal openly expressed by the client, the
existing architectural traces, gathered in a new spatial and visual
storytelling.
The
space is organized on two levels, according to the functional criteria and
exhibition: more public character of the ground floor with the counter, display
cases and the objects exhibited in different ways, interactive technologies,
and with a more restricted the first floor with a long table for the free
consultation.
The
two levels are offered in visual communication from an opening made in the slab
that marks a double height above the entrance area.
Each
piece of furniture and equipment is designed in relation to a complex interplay
of visual references and alignment: on the architectural space is superimposed
a watermark of spatial relations that materialize sometimes in thin patterns in
metal or in the carving of the masses of the furniture creating according to
the intentions of the project a dynamic space.