Archaelogical Museum
Reggio Calabria
Year: 2014
Client: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Reggio Calabria
Location: Reggio Calabria
Performance: executive design and construction management of the museological and museographic layout and special installations of the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria.
Status: completed (integrated tender awarded)
Architectural project: Gnosis Architettura
The museum had a display type consisting of monolithic islands of rectangular or square shape placed mostly in the center of the museum rooms. Above these islands were placed either glass cases for loose exhibits or display wings for exhibits that needed to be placed on the wall.
Regarding this display system, which was intended to be respected in its general layout,
Regarding this display system, which was intended to be respected in its general layout,
some improvements were worked out
to achieve a better enjoyment of the multitude of artifacts to be displayed.
These improvements were integrated and modified according to certain principles:
- increased
width of the paths
inside the islands in order to allow for the double flow of the public; - replacement of the platforms inside the islands equipped with ramps, which allowed the derivation of the installations prepared on the floor below them, with elements of low thickness. However, in this case it is necessary to make changes to the existing facilities and flooring;
- rationalization of the showcase systems and rearticulation of the interior spaces and lighting system of the exhibits;
- rearticulation of the island complex with slight changes in the surfaces of the islands and their showcases.
