{"id":482019,"date":"2026-03-18T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:54:11","slug":"amdl-circle-designs-visitor-centre-for-carlo-scarpas-brion-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482019\/","title":{"rendered":"AMDL Circle designs visitor centre for Carlo Scarpa’s Brion tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milan studio AMDL Circle has unveiled its design of a visitor centre<\/a> for the Brion tomb in San Vito d’Altivole, Italy, created by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conceived by AMDL Circle<\/a> as a “new threshold” for the renowned concrete memorial, the brick-wrapped pavilion<\/a> will house a reception and cafe alongside exhibition and study space.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorAMDL Circle has designed a visitor centre for Carlo Scarpa’s Brion tomb in San Vito d’Altivole<\/p>\n

Scarpa was commissioned to design the Brion Cemetery, or Brion tomb, in 1968 by the widow of Giuseppe Brion, co-founder of electronics firm Brion-Vega. It is considered one of Scarpa’s most significant projects.<\/p>\n

The centre is being created in response to the growing number of visitors and will occupy an existing residential building on the site linked to the Scarpa-designed tomb by a tree-lined avenue.<\/p>\n

\"RenderedIts brick exterior will have cruciform openings<\/p>\n

According to AMDL Circle, the renovation aims to create a “liminal space” that will serve as a “contemplative” entrance to the Brion tomb.<\/p>\n

“Carlo Scarpa’s delicate work was difficult to represent in a suburban house,” studio founder Michele De Lucchi said,” said studio founder Michele De Lucchi.<\/p>\n

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“We had to create a space of decompression that would allow visitors to leave behind the traffic of the provincial road and enter the space of the sacred,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“We needed to make it a transitional architecture, as free from emphasis as possible, capable of a silent refinement, to establish a relationship not of competition, but of respectful dialogue with the monument.”<\/p>\n

\"ClassroomIt will house a reception, cafe, exhibition space and study area<\/p>\n

Renders of the centre reveal the rectilinear brick structure topped with a thin, flat roof. It will be punctuated at its upper level by a grid of cruciform openings that will filter light and air through the interior.<\/p>\n

Deliberately raw and weathered elements, such as wood-framed openings and unfinished walls, were chosen to complement the centre’s red-brick walls.<\/p>\n

AMDL Circle said it will design the interior as a “porous environment” with flexible interiors capable of accommodating different configurations and changes in function over time.<\/p>\n

\"ExhibitionA basement-level exhibition space will be dedicated to the memorial<\/p>\n

Once complete, the centre will house the reception and cafe at ground level. Below this, a concrete-lined basement level is set to contain an exhibition area dedicated to the memorial.<\/p>\n

Study spaces for workshops will be held on the first floor, which is seen in the renders with wood-lined walls, red-toned flooring and wooden furniture.<\/p>\n

\"CarloThe tomb is considered one of Scarpa’s most significant projects. Photo by Martino Pietropoli via Unsplash<\/p>\n

The pavilion is currently under construction, set to be completed in November 2026. A landscaped garden, designed with landscape architect Camilla Zanarotti, will wrap around the centre.<\/p>\n

Other visitor centres recently featured on Dezeen include one at the medieval Ightham Mote manor house in Kent<\/a>, which London studio Reed Watts designed with an exposed timber and hempcrete structure, and a circular structure dedicated to Maiji Mountain in China<\/a> by ZXD Architects and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design.<\/p>\n

The renders are courtesy of AMDL Circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milan studio AMDL Circle has unveiled its design of a visitor centre for the Brion tomb in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,171282,17784,9103,40339,40340,40341,56,54,55,50522],"class_list":["post-482019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-michele-de-lucchi","tag-pavilions","tag-public-space","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-sectionnews","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-visitor-centres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}