M9 Museum . Venice
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m9museum . Eduardo Souto de Moura . model photos: Fondazione di Venezia . ORCH/orsenigo_chemollo
The M9 project and the reconversion of the former convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie into a commercial centre conserves the facades and the most important parts of the structure of the existing buildings and envisages the demolition of only a few divisor walls. The strategy adopted is to insert the access points (stairs and lifts) into the narrower body, maintaining free that of the wider one for the shops. In order that the commercial centre doesn’t have blind corridors and that conditions are optimum for sales, the escalators are positioned in a way to oblige the public to walk through the entire length of the floor to go up or down. Continue reading Eduardo Souto de Moura
