The restoration work of Scarpa is based on a balanced combination of new and old elements, as well as on a great workmanship of the materials. To Scarpa, the joints and connections between elements "are points every builder takes an interest in and always has, but the solutions are different in different periods."
The bridge structure is made of iron and starts in the square with two large blocks of Istrian stone to form the first two steps. The rest is larch planks. This new bridge is decidedly located by the old bridge built with traditional materials.
Water is the main character: it enters the building from the channel through the portal gates and it runs along the inner walls; It is located in the garden, in a capacious many-leveled copper basin made of cement and mosaic and in a little channel with two labyrinths sculpted in alabaster and Istrian stone by the sides. Each element of this small channel is designed to the smallest detail.
The floor of the original lobby, made in polychrome marble has a pattern similar to the outer facing of the Chapel of the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona. The roof is finished with red stucco. Elsewhere, the soil is made out of Istrian stone, and so is the structure which Scarpa used to cover the staircase that leads to the library, the gallery and offices on the first floor.
From the Portego, which is the space that links the access from the water with the access to the building, you can see the central hall through a glass wall. The hall walls are finished with panels of travertine equipped with special copper guides to hang paintings or other works of art.
The light comes from the two short sides, both protected by glass walls, is a combination of direct light and reflected light (from the water and the plants in the backyard).
A "mimetic" door, also in travertine, leads to a private room to the right of the room. The floor offers a modern reading of the traditional continuous terrazzo of stone and pebbles normally used in the Venetian Palazzo.
