Entry walkway to the Triennale Design Museum

A section of the Triennale building was converted into the permanent home of the Italian Design Museum. Helping to define the new exhibition facility was a bamboo walkway. From the first floor atrium this walkway surprisingly crosses the monumental grand staircase to construct a new independent circulation and a new entrance. With a span of 14.15 m and a 54 cm difference in height, the walkway is 162 cm wide and only 67 cm high in its structural section. It is in fact an end-supported isostatic and monolithic beam, constructed with bamboo planks interconnected using lamellar wood technology. The parapets jointed to the sides of the footboards are in extraclear, tempered and stratified glass sheets, interconnected by two slender handrails in grey painted steel. The rooms are equipped with all the necessary lighting and conditioning systems without altering Giovanni Muzio’s original architecture.