The Project The truly original aspect of the project is the new museum itinerary which, in line with the sequences indicated in the museum design, extends over the original “Corridors”, which are linked by new vertical connections: the East Staircase (alongside San Piero Scheraggio) and the West Staircase (in the Cortile dei Portalettere).
Through a discreet and rigorous architectural and engineering operation of enhanced technological content, the executive project gives shape to the museum design, indicating the most appropriate technological solutions for the achievement of the set objectives. These objectives comprise the doubling of the display capacity of the museum through the extension of the gallery to the first floor of the building, the display of works to date not accessible to the public in the new areas liberated by the transfer of the State Archive, with the display organised in a more rationally conceived sequence, and the overall transformation of Vasari’s complex into a more homogenous functional organism.
"We are now in a position to foresee for the Uffizi a logical and universally accepted evolution of the display layout, comprising an ascent to the present floor of the Gallery, an itinerary along the three corridors as far as the end of the west side towards the Loggia dei Lanzi, a descent to the first floor below via currently non-existentvertical connections, and a reverse itinerary as far as the opposite end of the east side, with descent to the ground floor via a new set of stairs-lifts".
