The workshop next to home. SAGM – Sculpture Atelier Galliani Montecchio by Natoffice
17/10/2022.
[Montecchio Emilia] Italy
metalocus, DIEGO DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ
metalocus, DIEGO DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ
Description of project by Natoffice
Michelangelo Galliani, sculptor and professor at the Academy of fine arts in Urbino, wanted to build a studio and atelier next to his house/greenhouse, in which he could work outdoors on a daily basis and house not only his tools and instruments but also some of his works and possible collaborators. This was the starting point for a minimal, open workspace, connected to the existing house in terms of dimensions and proportions, which would temper and anchor itself in natural light, as a source of shadow for the sculptures and as a source of light for the sculptors' thoughts.
The structure, simplified to its limits, is a system of reiterated and closely spaced portals, capable of giving rhythm and partition to a large double-height nave, all opaque in its working plane and all illuminated in its double level towards the park.
The light, also mediated by a system of curtains, shapes the interior space and fills the workspace.
The wood, with its inclined-shaped structure, its wind bracings and anchoring details delineates the exterior of the volume homogeneously and extends to the large uncovered entrance porch, a kind of diaphragm, to support and place the large slabs arriving from the quarries and the vehicles needed to transport them. On the back, the structure’s extension becomes a porch and only a concrete slab, in which the sculptor shapes the material: a diaphragm between the workspace and house/greenhouse.