FELIPE MANCERO | STUDIO
INSTRUCTOR: DARREN PETRUCCI YEAR COMPLETED: FALL 2015 PROJECT NAME: ENZO FERRARI MUSEUM CASE STUDY
In order to create an awareness of building skins the fifth year advanced architectural studio took a look at projects designed by significant architects in different regions of the world. The Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems in Modena, Italy is located in the house where the motor racing giant was born and raised. It is sensitive to the existing historical context, combines the latest in construction and energy saving technology, and resonates in spirit, language and materials with the cars it is intended to showcase.
The new exhibition building is composed of a sculpted yellow aluminum roof with its ten incisions, intentionally analogous to those air intake vents on the bonnet of a car allowing for natural ventilation and day lighting. Future Systems wanted to create a sensitive dialogue between the two exhibition buildings that showed consideration for Ferrari’s early home and underscored the importance of the museum as a unified complex made up of several elements. The views out of the new exhibition building dramatically frame the house and workshop, while views from outside the house and workshop immediately reveal the function and content of the new exhibition building. In order to convey the architectural intentions of the building I created a 30” tall x 10” wide wall section model built upon a 12” x 12” plywood base at 1/2”= 1’ and a 3D analytique drawing depicting the building wall section in relation to the overall conceptual design of the building.
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