Delle Bonifiche EcoMuseum is the name of the important restoration project designed by Archiplanstudio in Bondanello, a small town in Italy.
The architects have transformed an ancient building constructed in the 16th century (partially collapsed in 1960 and recostructed) into a museum of reclamation consortium and laboratories: the first phrase consisted in the restauration of the old building and the second phase concerned the construction of a new volume.
A new reticular steel structure with polycarbonate wall replace the volume that was destroyed and inside there is a polyfunctional space with the environment center of the Secchia river park; the materials of the new volume are concrete and steel, in order to resist the pressure of water and guarantee the reversibility.
The new covering in corten linked the restored facade with the new volume and show the stratification of the interventions, so the perception of the facades is dynamic and changes from every different angles, emphasizing the historical facade, the relation with the contemporary intervention or also the strength of the oxidised steel.
Finally, the polycarbonate wall during the night works like a lamp that emphasize the social function of Delle Bonifiche Ecomuseum and make it a signal in the landscape.
