Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio

Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography

SCULPTURE ATELIER GALLIANI MONTECCHIO

NAT Office

ARCHITECTS
Nat Office

ARTIST’S ATELIER
Program / Use / Building Function

SUSTAINABILITY
Stefano Anzillotti

TEAM
Sanaz Ghaffarizaki, Anashwara Jayakumar

BUILDING CONTRACTOR
Cisanova Srl

STRUCTURE
Lorenzo Franzoni

LEAD ARCHITECT
Christian Gasparini

SITE SUPERVISION
Christian Gasparini

CLIENT
Michelangelo Galliani

AREA
190 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Montecchio Emilia, Italy

CATEGORY
Offices

Text description provided by architect.

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.

Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography

This was the starting point for a minimal, open work space, 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.

Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography

The light, also mediated by a system of curtains, shapes the interior space and fills the work space.

The wood, with its inclinated 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.

Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography

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 workspace and house/greenhouse.


Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
© Filippo Poli Photography


Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Plan - Ground floor
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Plan - 1st floor
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Plan - Roof floor
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Plan - Site


Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Cross section mezzanine
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Cross section studio atelier
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Longitudinal section towards passage
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Longitudinal section towards park


Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Cross section studio atelier
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Cross section studio atelier


Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
Longitudinal section towards passage
Sculpture atelier galliani montecchio
North / East Facade