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References Domus, Dec 2015 ,997,p.64

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Bailo Museum

Studio Mas, Heinz Tesar, Marco Rapposelli , Piero Puggina

Client

Comune di Treviso, Ufficio Lavori Pubblici

Via Camillo Benso conte di Cavour
31057 Silea,
Italy

( GOOGLE MAPS )
The complex of buildings that now houses the museum originates from an ancient convent structure rebuilt by the Jesuits in the 16th century and then passed to other orders until the Napoleonic suppressions of 1810. During the Kingdom of Italy it was used as a barracks and military hospital and then, passed to the municipality in 1867, it was used as a schoolhouse with a college and the headquarters of the Ateneo di Treviso. Contingent needs led to expansion with the transformation of the church into a lecture hall for the high school and the construction of new buildings. A three-story building replaced the church's bell tower and choir (demolished), and a building closed off the eastern side of the complex, creating a second cloister.
The project proposes distributional and functional reorganization, consolidation of structures and conservative restoration of the oldest parts, as well as plant upgrading.
The starting point was the definition of an elevation that would be qualifying for the museum. An artificial stone cladding of Carrara marble grit was chosen, which is similar in color to the white plaster of the old building and, with different surface treatments, also covers the square in front. On the stone facade, a vertical cut introduces the new atrium, which opens into a gallery, about 28m long, carved out of an existing residual space and lit from above. The gallery, made of smoothed concrete, reaches the south cloister and becomes a distributive axis in a structure that has recovered the original spatiality, thanks to the demolition of all non-load-bearing partitions. All wall coverings are in lime, in white marmorino for exteriors.

Original Use Religious

New Use Cultural

Project Date [2010 — 2012]

Build Date [2013 — 2015]

Preexistance Monastery
[14-16th -century]
References Domus, Dec 2015 ,997,p.64