Lecture excerpts from “Sustainability in Garda Festival” 2017 april 23. Ugo Da Como Foundation owns an exceptional monumental site including a House-Museum, the Viscontean-Venetian Fortress and a small group of old houses part of the Medieval village of Lonato. The foundation estate left by Senator Ugo Da Como not only includes the above mentioned buildings but also the library, art and furniture collections housed inside the House of The Mayor. © Ugo da Como Foundation The estate is not just an economical asset but it is made of historical buildings of cultural signifiance...

The glass pavilion we designed in the ancient Lonato fortress is not the first building with an exhibit function built in an historical environment in Italy and internationally. The most famous example is the glass Pyramid in the Louvre courtyard, finished in 1989. The main concept was to create a new space to welcome visitors, as an expression of cutting-edge architectural style but also of harmonious coexistence between the new and the ancient spaces of the museum. This was conceived as a sort of skylight, 20 meters high, over the underground entrance to the museum; the new building...