Villa Mutti Bernardelli is an important historic building in the center of Gardone Val Trompia, which had once belonged to one of the most ancient families of gunsmiths. It is a vast complex with rooms built from the 15th to the 18th century, consisting of a central three-floor building above the ground and a smaller two-floor side building, also above the ground, which delimit an interior courtyard and the park on the east. Especially interesting are some chambers on the ground floor, such as the large room with a stone fireplace, the adjacent fifteenth century hall with sail vaults, under which some large lunette painted on canvas are set, and the lounge room with a coffered ceiling.
The intervention was essentially aimed at the structural recovery of certain areas of the building by reinforcing the cross vaults and the barrel vaults, after removing and substituting the architraves in bad preservation conditions, and a general redevelopment of the attic floor, with a considerably high central area, used as an exhibition hall. Lastly, an architectural reassembly of the entire building with repositioning of the old refurbished fixtures and external painting using silicate paint in shades and colors identical to the original ones, sought on pictorial essays.
A new roof was made by substituting the bearing structure with two retrieved visible trusses, laying on irregular wall sections with a rustic finish, simply reinforced and cleaned. On the north side, facing less visible spaces, four dormers were created to increase the supply of light and air to the rooms; for the flooring, the original planks in chestnut wood were re-used, after being appropriately disassembled, stacked, sanitized and returned to their place with great care, with subsequent sanding and final mould and moth proof treatments.
The new stairways connecting the floors, designed to improve escaping in the event of a fire and breaking down the architectural barriers, were built with a steel structure, and with visible laser cuts and stone finish.
The original division of the rooms was maintained, whereas the doors were eliminated so as to create a continuity of the functional space of the library room. In the lower body of the building, on the ground floor, a meeting room and an archive for the Museum of Weapons were created; on the first floor, the Historic Hunting Archive for the collection of documents relevant to hunting was created, as well as the exhibition area in the south gallery and on the west side of the same floor.
SCHEDA LAVORO
