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The Museum of the Mud Angels is designed in memory of a group of young people who voluntarily gathered to save the artefacts of the 1966 Florence flood. The museum is located in Piazza dei Giudici, Florence. The building is designed around three principles: Prevent, Defend and Escape. It includes a library, an exhibition space and a restaurant, doubling up as an example of architecture prepared for flooding. Lifeboats on docks act as private rooms for the restaurant on the west side of the building and the roof garden incorporates candle lights that flow in water that is powered by a water clock, lighting the roof’s landscape of a miniature Florence. The roof acts as a monument to the young people of Florence 60 years ago.
The cone in the centre of the building leads rainwater into a collecting device, driving the water clock.
On a daily basis, the lifeboats are used as both private rooms for the restaurant and as an educational model for visitors.
View of the building from the street to the west.