Archaelogical Museum
Aquileia (UD)
Year: 2023
Client: MIBACT _ Polo Museale del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Location: Aquileia (UD)
Performance: final and executive design, CSP, CSE, construction management for the realisation of new installations and new facilities for services to the public in the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia
Project amount: € 2.376.174,12
Status: completed (tender awarded)
Architectural project: Gnosis Progetti
Construction manager: eng. Massimo Del Giudice
Before Gnosis Progetti’s intervention, the museum centre was isolated from the other structures, because Villa Cassis Faraone was in an independent position from the galleries and warehouses.
Gnosis Progetti has, on the one hand,
Gnosis Progetti has, on the one hand,
restored the existing works
, and on the other, built two new structures, one connecting the villa and the galleries, and the other extending the warehouses with a new building.
The new structure now allows visitors to enjoy a more homogeneous route, always indoors and in full compliance with the removal of architectural barriers.
Both new structures have been designed with the idea of taking up and reinterpreting
Both new structures have been designed with the idea of taking up and reinterpreting
historical signs in a contemporary key
: the new volumes, in fact, have been clad with masonry textures, as is still the case today in farmhouses and barns in the Veneto and Friuli countryside.
The renovation of the storerooms was necessary in order to realise not only a ‘tidier storeroom’, but to
With a contemporary language, the new warehouse uses bricks by suspending them on cables and creating a second skin that gradually dematerialises from the bottom upwards. The fixtures make vertical cuts that connect to a large horizontal cut at the top that ‘suspends’ the roof from the walls below.
literally expand the museum’s exhibition offer
. These spaces alternate with others equipped for temporary events, such as exhibitions. Here too, much attention was paid to the theme of integrating the new M9 warehouse building with the existing ones.With a contemporary language, the new warehouse uses bricks by suspending them on cables and creating a second skin that gradually dematerialises from the bottom upwards. The fixtures make vertical cuts that connect to a large horizontal cut at the top that ‘suspends’ the roof from the walls below.
The Lapidary Gallery constitutes one of the most original and popular aspects of the Aquileia museum complex. It allows the enjoyment of the extremely rich
The enhancement of this area required a conservative restoration and the strengthening of the didactic apparatus.
epigraphic heritage of architectural decorations
, mosaics and funerary monuments returned by the excavations in Aquileia.The enhancement of this area required a conservative restoration and the strengthening of the didactic apparatus.
