Workshop Case Study: Salottobuono / Matteo Ghidoni - Teatrino

In this workshop, children explored the Salottobuono / Matteo Ghidoni - Teatrino pavilion project as a hands-on study case. They learned about architectural scale, new vocabulary such as cuvea and aerostatic, and geometric shapes including hexagons and octagons. Through step-by-step guidance, participants practiced drawing these shapes and learned basic symbols used in technical drawings.

The workshop then moved to a creative phase: children completed a pavilion model prepared by me and had the oportunity to design their own sail. To end the session, we engaged in an immersive storytelling and podcast activity, imagining ourselves inside the pavilion and interviewing or discussing playful questions with each other, fostering creativity, collaboration, and imaginative thinking.

Teatrino Pavilion

Teatrino Pavilion

Text and images adapted from Divisare- Salottobuono/Matteo Ghidoni

The TEATRINO is a temporary pavilion designed to host interviews and conversations on architecture in presence of an audience of about 90 people- to be placed in front of the main entrance of the Triennale building in Milan or in the rear garden. It consists of a base and an aerostatic roofing structure.

The base consists of an octagonal structure hosting a circular cavea of abot 50 square metres. The cavea is accessed tgrough two small stairs on opposites sides. Interviewees and interviewers seat on the lowest step of the cavea, inside a circular space of 1.5 meter in diameter.All of the rest of the space, divided into 50 centimetres high and 75 deep steps, is reserved for the public. The structure of the entire base is made of a wooden frame covered with fir playwood panels for flooring and diagonal wooden slats for wall cladding.

The roof structure is made of 8 cables anchored at the top of the base and tensioned by a helium balloon of 5 metres in diameter. The balloon is able to develop an upward force of 42 kilos. Along the cables there is a triangular wedges covering in micro-perforated natural fabric (70gr/m2) printed. The entire roof structure, from the anchorage base of the cables to the bottom of the ball is 11 metres high and weights about 16 kg.

The TEATRINO is designed as an immersive, participatory and symbolic space. A small pagan template to celebrate the rite of the interview in its collective dimension.