Casa Sanlorenzo project
Venice, Casa Sanlorenzo: a cultural project that marks a new chapter in the evolution of Sanlorenzo Arts, made possible thanks to the vision of Cav. Massimo Perotti. Within the spaces of a historic palazzo, revived through the essential touch of Piero Lissoni, a place takes shape where the city’s memory meets the experimentation of the present.
Conceived as a crossroads of art, culture, design, and sustainability, Casa Sanlorenzo is a permanent laboratory of research and dialogue, created to foster encounters between different languages and to redefine the idea of responsible innovation. Exhibitions, residencies, talks, and educational programs weave together into a fluid and inclusive path, where every intervention becomes an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between creativity, material, and environment.
The project rises in the Dorsoduro district, an area historically tied to Venice’s intellectual life, and positions itself as an architecture of the future: a space in constant metamorphosis, capable of uniting historical regeneration with contemporary sustainability. Its identity rests on a subtle balance between heritage and transformation, tradition and experimentation, vision and responsibility.
Within this context, our collaboration with Sanlorenzo Arts emerges through two distinct interventions, a staircase and a bridge, conceived as elements of both physical and symbolic connection. This same vision resonates with the philosophy of Sanlorenzo Yachts, where design and craftsmanship meet through a continuous dialogue between engineering, beauty, and proportion, guided by the same care that shapes every vessel.
Lines, proportions, and materials reflect the very creative tension that drives the entire project: the intention to merge design and sustainability into an architectural gesture that narrates the relationship between space, light, and thought.
Casa Sanlorenzo thus becomes a manifesto of contemporary culture: a place where art and industry converse in the name of a new idea of beauty, conscious, enduring, and alive.
Suspended between water and vision: two works shaping a new Venetian threshold
In Venice—where design meets culture and architectural gestures become invitations to encounter—stands Casa Sanlorenzo, a space created to host art, thought, and transition. Within this context, we worked on two passages: one interior, that rises; one exterior, that connects.
Inside, the structural glass staircase is conceived as a continuous line that links levels and languages.
Outside, the bridge is an essential metal structure completed with Istrian stone, reconnecting the palazzo to the lagoon city— the first new bridge built in Venice in over sixty years: a sober yet powerful gesture, suspended between memory and innovation.
It is more than architecture. It is matter transformed into invitation, space that becomes experience—a threshold, an opening.
The bridge
Connecting the two banks that frame Casa Sanlorenzo, the private access bridge—also designed by Lissoni & Partners—was conceived as a highly technological structure, fully aligned with the modern era.
Born from a rigorous design process, its essential and precise form is deeply rooted in the emotional topography of the lagoon city.
The staircase
At the heart of Casa Sanlorenzo, the Struktura glass staircase—discreet yet deeply expressive—becomes the point where light and material converge. Suspended in space, it connects the building’s levels with the precision of engineering and the grace of design intent.
It is not merely an architectural link, but a visual passage—a transparent gesture that restores continuity.
