Enzo Ferrari Museum // Modena // Italy // Future Systems
‘The Museum by Future Systems nestles in the grounds of the turn of the century Enzo Ferrari house in Modena, Italy – a submerged, soft blue form appearing to grow out of the surrounding landscape.
The house being modest in scale has determined the height of the museum. A vast wall of curved, inclined glass draws you into the space, the curved plane bisected by fins inspired by the radiator of a Maserati.
North facing roof lights flood the interior volume with diffused white light. Inside the walls and floor of the museum, rectangular in plan, forms a basin, finished in fine white terrazzo.
This strong and embracing space provides the perfect environment in which to display the achievement and finesse of the Maserati collection.’
Completion: 2009
Contract Value: £7 million
Area: 4,500m²
Being an Architecture student with a passion for performance cars, I have to say I am purely dissapointed. To start off its ugly, I mean there’s no other way to put it. Its like some one had taken a cheese grater and cut it in half, then modeled the building off of that. Then there is the collor, I know its supposed to represent the paint on a car but it totally takes away from the surrounding landscape not to mention ferraris signature collor is red not yellow. Then there is the quwstion of presentation, It looks like they gave the job of rendering the project to a 13 year old who has no sense of scale. Finally it in no way to me any way seems to represent Ferrari, to me anyways, which I have a feeling is what the designers intent was to do.
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