Enzo Ferrari Museum opens its doors

A museum commemorating the life and goals of Ferrari namesake Enzo Ferrari has been opened in Modena, Italy. The ambitious project has not been without its complications, however.

Originally awarded to Future Systems, the project had to be handed over to Shiro Studio when the designer, Czech architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický passed away in early 2009.

The Enzo Ferrari Museum was completed under the direction of former Future Systems associate Andrea Morgante.

The museum comprises two buildings: the first is the early nineteenth century former house and workshop of Ferrari’s father, renovated to house a 40-metre-long gallery, while the second is a new glass-fronted structure that curves around it.

The sculpted yellow aluminium roof with its ten incisions – which have been designed to mimic air intake vents on the bonnet of a car – allows for natural ventilation and day lighting. With 3,300 square metres of double-curved aluminium, the roof is the first application of aluminium in this way on such a large scale and is created using the tongue-in-groove system implemented during boat building.

In case you're wondering why it's not red, the bright Modena yellow of the roof is Ferrari’s corporate colour, as seen on the Ferrari logo and is also the official colour of Modena.

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Mm I will be near Modena next month, I have to think about it...

 

Thanks for the post KP, worth a visit for sure!

 

I went there on the opening day, there was LITERALLY a queue of over a thousand of people! It was insane!

 

greetings from Switzerland )

 

more pics please!