Nuovo Municipio [New Town Hall of Canazei], Canazei, Italy (1991)

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People:

Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
Gianni Pettena (architect)

Title:

Nuovo Municipio [New Town Hall of Canazei], Canazei, Italy (1991)

Date:

1989-2015

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

0.04 l.m. of textual records
199 photographic materials
90 drawings (including 88 reprographic copies)
59 digital files (1 GB)
1 moving image

Scope and content:
The project series documents Pettena's work for the Nuovo Municipio, a new town hall building in Canazei in Italy, from 1990 to 1997. The project consisted of preserving and restoring a historic building designed by Ettore Sottsass in the 1930s and adding a new construction built in a gap between two sections of the building the two volumes of the building. "Through the glazed connection, the new volume maintains a certain distance from the existing volume and is itself split into two parts, creating in practice a pedestrian intersection between the new and the old building and between the two sections of the new building: a pedestrian intersection that is laid out on two distinct levels." [1]

The project series contains sketches, site plans, floor plans, elevations and sections. It is also comprised of research material, such as copies of building plans by Ettore Sottsass Sr. The project is also documented through proposals and project descriptions, reports, contracts with the city of Canazei, correspondence with engineers, photographs of the construction, and videos of the building. The project series also includes press clippings about the project and an unidentified videorecording.

Source:
[1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/arch-new-town-hall-1990-97/ (last accessed 21 January 2020).

Reference number:

AP207.S1.1991.PR02

Arrangement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Location:

Italy

Language of material:

English
Italian

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