Such bold structures had never been seen and the warfare past left room for modernity.

The Innocenti scaffolding is so designed: the iron pipes replace the wooden material while the joints are the binding points of a mesh of metal pipes arranged horizontally and vertically.

It was quick to build the support platform for the formwork that sustains the casting and the functioning of the clamps was very intuitive as Ferdinando understood that even the site workers could work better if their job was simplified. (A worker and two wrenches, in case one fell, were enough to assemble the pieces). He replaced the mechanism of the hinge-bolt pair with two T hinge-bolts and the pipe was placed in the opening of the phalanges by rotating the bolt around the axis of its head.

On the big construction sites of the 1960s, engineers Nervi, Morandi, Zorzi and Musmeci worked with Innocenti on perfecting the scaffolding. In fact, it was recurrently used on these construction sites. The Innocenti scaffolding is a castle of steel pipes arranged like a folding fan, very light yet very solid. It could be built in approximately two weeks and would also allow for a lot of savings on site because it replaced the classic wooden scaffolding. Therefore, using the Innocenti scaffolding meant saving tons of wood, cuts on the costs of shaping the pieces and, most importantly, no waste since metal, unlike wood, could be reused endlessly after stripping the hardened casting.

Thanks to its lightness, this type of scaffolding was easily settled in very steep gorges where any other type of scaffolding would have been impossible to use. Still it wasn’t all: an extra speed on construction times was given by a mechanism that allowed this scaffolding to be shifted even tens of meters without being disassembled!