A low pavilion of brick and stone in the residential quarter of Marghera, older than the foundation whose name it now carries in letters along its roofline.
At a glance
The building runs low and long behind a line of plane trees in Via Fratelli Bandiera, a single storey under a flat roof, its brick walls divided by broad panels of pale stone. Across the parapet, in raised letters, it says FONDAZIONE ENZO E SILVIO CHIARI. The charity of that name was constituted in 1963; the building is older, and belongs to the architecture of the nineteen-thirties in Marghera.
Key facts
- Where: Via Fratelli Bandiera 112, 30175 Marghera, Venice
- What you see: a single-storey pavilion in brick, with wide vertical panels of pale stone, a flat roof with a projecting cornice, and a portico at the entrance end
- The lettering: FONDAZIONE ENZO E SILVIO CHIARI, in raised letters on the stone parapet
- The foundation: constituted a legal entity by presidential decree of 24 July 1963, published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale of 3 September 1963, with its seat in Marghera
- Dated by the contributor to: 1936
What you see
The composition is plain and deliberate: a base course of brick, then alternating bays of brick and stone running the length of the front, each stone panel the full height of the wall, each brick bay carrying a single window with a stone surround. The roof is flat with a thin projecting slab, and at the far end the wall steps up into a taller block. At the entrance, square piers carry a shallow porch and the parapet lifts to take the lettering.
It is the material that makes it: brick and stone used in flat alternating panels, without mouldings and without a cornice of the old kind. That handling belongs to Italian building of the nineteen-thirties, and it is the reason the building is here on this archive.
The name on the parapet
The Fondazione Enzo e Silvio Chiari was erected as an ente morale by a decree of the President of the Republic dated 24 July 1963, published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on 3 September of that year, with its seat in Marghera. It still has its address here. What the building was before that date, and who designed it, is not recorded in any source we could reach.
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Getting there
Via Fratelli Bandiera runs through the residential quarter of Marghera, on the mainland, ten minutes by bus from Piazzale Roma in Venice. The building is in use and is seen from the street.
Nearby
- The houses on Via Zambeccari, in the same quarter.
- Molocinque, the former Dopolavoro club of Marghera.
Sources
- The photographs — the front, the brick and stone panelling and the lettering, photographed on 7 September 2013.
- OpenStreetMap and Nominatim — Via Fratelli Bandiera 112, Marghera, Venice, 30175, and the coordinates.
- Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, 3 September 1963 — erection of the Fondazione Enzo e Silvio Chiari as an ente morale, decree of 24 July 1963.
- Stefano Vigolo, who photographed the building and dates it to 1936.
Gallery
Photograph by Stefano Vigolo, 2013.
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