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1 Italia ROMA Projects 26 Created 20-Feb-16 By Alejandro Romanutti, Córdoba, Argentina EUR district Rome, Marcello Piacentini urban plan Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana Auditorium Parco della Musica Palazzetto dello Sport Ara Pacis Museum Garbatella Monument of Fosse Ardeatine Jubilee Church Maxxi 7 Il Girasole Rome, Luigi Moretti apartment, private house Town Hall Fiumicino 14 Palazzo delle Poste 15 Lateran University Library Extension 16 Santo Volto di Gesu 17 Rome, Sartogo Architetti Associati church 8 Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church 18 San Giovanni Rotondo, Renzo Piano church 9 Street Lab 19 Rome, BRRE architects exposition space, skatepark, square 10 Lido di Ostia Post Office 20 Lido di Ostia, Angiolo Mazzoni commercial space, fountain, office 11 Rome, Zaha Hadid s museum Rome, King Roselli Architetti library Rome, Richard Meier church 6 Rome, Mario Fiorentino monument 13 Rome, Adalberto Libera office Rome, Innocenzo Sabbatini housing, urban plan 5 Rome, Richard Meier museum Olympic Village 1960 Fiumicino, Alessandro Anselmi government, square Rome, Pier Luigi Nervi sport 4 Rome, Renzo Piano auditorium, music theatre Rome, Luigi Moretti dwellings, housing, sport Rome, Giovanni Guerrini museum 3 La Sapienza University Campus 21 Rome, Marcello Piacentini laboratorium, student housing, university 12 La Rinascente Rome 22 Rome, Franco Albini cafe, commercial space, shop 1

2 MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, ODBC museum Baths of Caracalla Church San Pio da Pietralcina Rome, Studio di Architettura Anselmi & Associati church Stazione Tiburtina 26 Rome, ABDR train station 24 Rome, Giuseppe Milani information centre 23 Sensory Garden at Parco delle Rupicole 27 Rome, mtstudio garden 25 Federico Caffe 28 Rome, Spsk: Studio di Architettura e Ingegneria university 2

3 photo: Raban Haaijk photo: Raban Haaijk EUR district Viale della civiltà del lavoro Rome The Esposizione Universale Roma (EUR, originally called EUR42) is a large complex, now a suburban area and business centre, started in 1935 by Benito Mussolini and planned to open in 1942 to celebrate twenty years of Fascism In urban planning terms, EUR42 was designed to direct the expansion of Rome towards the south-west, connecting it to the sea The planned exhibition never took place due to 's defeat in World War II EUR offers a large-scale image of how urban might have looked, if the Fascist regime had not fallen; wide axially planned streets and austere buildings, inspired by ancient Roman architecture, or Rationalism, modern architecture but built using traditional limestone, tufa and marble 1942 Main designer, Urban planner Urban planner Marcello Piacentini Maarten_Scheurwater Giuseppe Pagano Benito Mussolini Metro B (blue line): termini Magliana/EUR marconi and EUR fermi 3

4 Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana Viale della civiltà del lavoro Rome The most representative building of the "Fascist" style at the EUR district is Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, an iconic project which has since become known as the cubic or the "Colosseo Quadrato" the Square Colosseum It is particularly symbolic of this district, exemplifying its monumentality The design of the "Square Colosseum" was inspired more to celebrate the Colosseum, and the structure was intended by Benito Mussolini as a celebration of the older Roman landmark Similar to the Colosseum, the palace has a series of superimposed loggias, shown on the façade as six rows of nine arches each These numbers are an allusion to the name of the Fascist dictator: "Benito" having six letters and "Mussolini," nine It is a parallelepiped on a square base, with six levels rising above a podium The scale is imposing: the base covers an area of 8,400 square meters, and the building has volume 205,000 cubic meters with a height 68 meters (50 meters from the base) 1943 Main designer, Giovanni Guerrini Ernesto Bruno La Padula Mario Romano Benito Mussolini Maarten_Scheurwater In 2003 a large renovation process started, allegedly turning the building into a museum, but in mid 2007 is still wasn't open Metro B (blue line): termini Magliana/EUR marconi and EUR fermi 4

5 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Auditorium Parco della Musica Viale Pietro de Coubertin Rome The Parco della Musica is a large public music complex on the north side of Rome, exploiting a spacious site that was part of the 1960 Olympic area It is composed of three separate giant bug-like halls whose forms are inspired by musical instruments Positioned around an open air amphitheatre, the halls look like three enormous music boxes, whose colours and materials recall those of the domes dotting the urban landscape of Rome Each concert hall differs from the other in terms of dimension and functions, but they are all characterized by an extreme flexibility and versatility of the space By these means, space can be regulated and adjusted to the nature of performance, where floor and ceiling can be moved to adjust the acoustic properties of the wall The interiors are entirely made of cherry-wood, which best resolved acoustic problems photo: Raban Haaijk Structural engineer Building costs consultant Renzo Piano Arup Davis Langdon & Everest City of Rome MI_MOA Weekdays: architectural tours by reservation only for groups min 10 people Saturday, Sunday and holidays: departures every 60 minutes from 1130 to 1630 Other shifts by reservation only for schools and groups of 10 to 40 people Tickets: guided tour: Adults 9 euros, reduction for groups of 10 to 40 people and over 65: 7 euros; to 26, students, school groups organized 5 euros Information via visiteguidate@musicaperromait The Auditorium Parco della Musica of Rome is in Viale Pietro de Coubertin, near the Palazzetto dello Sport, off Viale Tiziano, in the Flaminio district of Rome, by the Villaggio Olimpico and can be easily reached by public transport: Bus: 910 and 217 from Termini Station; 53 and 231 from Piazza Mancini; Linea M special bus route between Termini Station and Auditorium, from 17:00 every 15 min Tram: 2 from Piazzale Flaminio Trains: Metro A line to Flaminio stop then no2 tram 5

6 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Palazzetto dello Sport Piazza Apollodoro Rome Built for the 1960 Olympics, the palazzetto is a modest sports stadium in an innovative concrete dome Designed by Pier Luigi Nervi it hosted boxing among other sports during the Olympic Games The innovative dome is made of ribbed reinforced concrete The lower half of the dome has continuous ribbon of window the whole way around the circular stadium, beneath the elegantly ribbed, white-painted concrete ceiling A wonderful space Pier Luigi Nervi was educated and practised as a "building engineer" in After 1932, his aesthetically pleasing designs were used for major projects This was due to the booming number of construction projects at the time which used concrete and steel in Europe and the architecture aspect took a step back to the potential of engineering Nervi successfully made reinforced concrete the main structural material of the day He died in Pier Luigi Nervi City of Rome / 1960 Olympics MI_MOA photo: Naomi Schiphorst The stadium is in use and so not formally open to the public for visits But you can buy a ticket to a sports-event and enjoy! The stadium is in the former Olympic park towards the north of Rome, just north of the Stadio Flaminio (also by Pier Luigi Nervi) Piazza Apolladoro is at the intersection of the Viale Tiziano (running north-south) and Viale P De Coubertin (running east-west), home of the Parco della Musica 6

7 Ara Pacis Museum Lungotevere in Augusta Rome The Ara Pacis Museum, located along the Tiber River, near the Ponte Cavour, on the western edge of the Piazza Augusto Imperatore, is an integral part of the urban context of the Augustean Area It is designed to house the ancient relic, the Ara Pacis Augustae, a sacrificial altar dating to 9 BC, originally housed in a building designed by Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo in 1938 The only surviving part of the Morpurgo structure is a low travertine wall that Mussolini had engraved with the "Res Gestae" (the Acts of the Divine Augustus) The new design protects and enhances the relic The travertine comes from the same quarry as the stone that was used to build the Piazza of the Emperor Augustus in the Thirties; it was also, more recently, used by Richard Meier for the Getty Centre in Los Angeles and other important architectural works 2006 Richard Meier City of Rome Maarten_Scheurwater Tuesday-Sunday 900am-700pm; 24th and 31st December 900am-200pm (the ticket office closes an hour in advance) Monday, 1st January, 1st May and 25th December From Termini: METRO LINE A to BATTISTINI for 4 stops Get off at Flaminio Walk about 850 m down Via di Ripetta From Rome Ostiense station: Go to OSTIENSE/MATTEUCCI stop Take no 716 bus (marked for TEATRO MARCELLO) for 7 stops Get off at PETROSELLI Take no 628 bus (marked MARESCIALLO GIARDINO) for 9 stops Get off at LGT AUGUSTA/ARA PACIS On foot from Piazza di Spagna: Follow Via dei Condotti to its end, about 700 m Then continue down Via Tomacelli until you reach bank of Tiber 7

8 Garbatella Via Carlo Randaccio Rome On February 1920 the first stone was laid of this new neighbourhood King Vittorio Emmanuele III had planned a new harbour that would link the city of Rome with the coastal town of Ostia The hills in between were developed and these new houses were built for men working in the harbour The architecture of the quarter initially was modeled to the English Garden Cities, very connected and near the city The English Garden model was used to help the workers adjust to the new way of living in the city La Garbatella was developed by blocks (Italian Lotto) which were designed by different architects over a period of approximately twenty years: this produced a great variety of styles and decorations, with many details reminding the viewer of medieval, Renaissance or Baroque patterns The inhabitants did not find the alien landscape of so many modern urban developments, but the familiar mixture of styles existing in so many streets of Rome and they easily felt at home in their new houses 1922 Innocenzo Sabbatini City of Rome Maarten_Scheurwater Subway to Garbatella 8

9 Monument of Fosse Ardeatine Via Ardeatina Rome On 24 March 1944, German occupation forces took 335 people from prisons, houses, and off the street, and brought them to the peaceful Ardeatine Caves to the south of Rome, where the victims were massacred because 33 Nazi soldiers were killed by the resistance The Germans then mined the cliffs to make the caves collapse After the liberation, the site was dug out and turned into a monument to the worst German atrocity of the Second World War in Rome Today one of the most powerful national moments is erected on the location of the retaliatory massacre at the Pozzolana quarries along Via Ardeatina It is a beautiful place that honours those who died in the caves After World War II the bodies were re interred with honour, with their identities listed on the tombs At the top of a hill is a small museum that recalls the War, German occupation, and privations throughout after peace was declared 1952 Main designer, Artist Associate architect Associate architect Artist Associate architect Mario Fiorentino Giuseppe Perugini Mirko Basaldella Aldo Cardelli Cino Calcaprina Francesco Coccia Nello Aprile City of Rome Maarten_Scheurwater Free entrance Daily from 8:15 to 17:45 hr On holidays: 8:45 17:15 Bus 714 (PALAZZO SPORT) 6 stops get out at PZA S GIOVANNI IN LATERANO, take bus 218 (ARDEATINA/SCUOLA PADRE FORMATO) 10 stops or take bus 218 (ZANETTA) get out at FOSSE ARDEATINE 100 m walking to Via Ardeatina Reaching Fosse Ardeatine is easy, but at the same time a challenge The official name of the stop that most tourists take to the Catacombs of St Callisto is Fosse Ardeatine Instead of crossing the street to go to the catacombs you walk straight to the monument From Stazione Termini bus 714 stop at St John Lateran Square, then bus 218 stop at Fosse Ardeatine From Piramide di Caio Cestio (Tube Piramide, Railway Station Ostiense) bus 118 to Catacombs of St Callisto 9

10 photo: Eelkje Meindertsma Jubilee Church Via Francesco Tovaglieri Rome The Parisch Church of Dio Padre Misericordioso built as part of the Vicarage project 50 Churches for Rome 2000 was designed as a mark and symbol of the Grand Jubilee of 2000 it takes on the idea of a ship, a ship which ploughs the seas of the Third millennium The Jubilee Church has been conceived as a new center for a somewhat isolated housing quarter in the Tor Tre Teste area, located outside central Rome The three shells discretely imply the Holy Trinity, the reflecting pool symbolizes water in the ritual of Baptism 2003 Richard Meier City of Rome Maarten_Scheurwater morning 7:30 12:30 afternoon 15:30 19:30 Bus 105 (STAZNE GROTTE CELONI)for 24 stops, get out at CASILINA/TOBAGI Walk for another 100 m to the busstop TOBAGI, to take bus number 556 (GARDENIE) for another 12 stops, get out at the stop TOVAGLIERI / ERMOLI 10

11 photo: Raban Haaijk photo: Raban Haaijk Maxxi Via Guido Reni Rome The MAXXI_National Museum of the XXI Century Arts is a new institution of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities of In 1998 the ministry advertised the international call for tenders and among the 273 candidacies the winning project of Zaha Hadid convinced the jury because of its possibilities to integrate with the urban texture and the innovative and highly creative architectonical solution The complexity of shapes, their sinuous outline, the variation and interlacing of dimensions, determine a spatial and functional plot of great complexity The two museums - MAXXI art and MAXXI architecture revolve around the full-height grand hall, from where the reception services, the cafeteria, the bookshop, the didactic laboratories, the auditorium, the live event halls, the galleries dedicated to temporary exhibitions and the collections of graphics and photography are accessed 2008 Zaha Hadid s Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali Maarten_Scheurwater photo: Raban Haaijk Tuesday Sunday closed Monday From termini starion, take busline 910 (MANCINI) for 18 fermate, get of at stop FLAMINIA/RENI walk 250 metres to via guido reni

12 Il Girasole Viale Brunno Buozzi Rome Nicknamed the sunflower, probably derived from the plan organization and the petal-like extensions which open -sunflower-like- to one side of the building, 2 large apartments per floor, spread outward from an interior courtyard The street façade is remarkable as an abstract surface turned, like a sunflower, to face the south sun The façade contains contradictory illusions The vertical cleft which reveals the depth of the courtyard within, with right and left sides misaligned at the top, would seem to invite the absolution of planer surface but does just the opposite Built in a district of apartment blocks, it had to respond to the same zoning limitations Moretti's reputation was established by 1936 when, at the age of 29, he designed the fencing hall at Mussolini's heroic new sports centre for Rome, the Foro Italico, an exercise in rationalist design during the Fascist period Later work reveal an architect preoccupied with "organic" building forms and ideas Project is not public! 1950 Luigi Moretti Private Maarten_Scheurwater From Termini: bus line 910 (MANCINI) to 12 fermate, get out at ANTONELLI/MERCALLI, walk 350 m to viale bruno buozzi, number

13 Olympic Village 1960 Viale Diciassettesima Olimpiade Rome The site selected for the 1960 Olympics was a strategic location along the ancient Via Flaminia This area along the flood plain of the Tiber had long been used as a site for sporting events Previously it had been the Piazza d Armi for horse events and there was a hippodrome Is was also easy accessible to Foro Italico across the river to the west where facilities built in the 1930's already existed including a stadium Planned Olympic facilities included 2 stadiums and housing for the athletes One stadium was to be used for football, the Stadio Flaminio, 1959, and the other for indoor sports, the Palazzetto dello Sport, 1958 Designed by Pier Luigi Nervi The apartments were to be used after the games as dwellings for 6500 people The Olympic Village was a showcase project for Rome in the years following World War II In addition to the 2 stadiums and 1500 or so dwellings, the Olympic Village is a more-or-less complete community including shopping, schools, and a church 1962 Main designer, Luigi Moretti Adalberto Libera City of Rome / 1960 Olympics Maarten_Scheurwater From termini station take busline 217 (XVII OLIMPIADE) for 17 stops get off at stop XVII OLIMPIADE 13

14 Town Hall Fiumicino Via Portuense Fiumicino The Fiumicino Town Hall follows the shape of the trapezoidal lot on which it stands The plaza is a public space whose variable elevation offers an unusual changing view over the surrounding landscape of the town, the river and the sea Rather than a building, the architect and the city wanted to create a town square, a place where institutions would not be separate from citizens, where people could meet and sit down and relax There is also a café, at plaza level The load-bearing structures of reinforced concrete have a continuous finish of tiles A continuous glass wall covers the opposite facades The lot, which is on a slope, is closed off by two linear blocks covered with aluminum chequer plate interrupted by strip windows The choice of materials reveals a desire to combine traditional elements characteristic of old town centers (the granite and bricks of the square) with materials used in the modern city (aluminum) Alessandro Anselmi City of Fiumicino Maarten_Scheurwater 14

15 Palazzo delle Poste Via Marmorata Rome The Post Office on Via Marmorata in Rome is designed by Libera, an extremely able and talented creative architect more influenced by Futurism than Rationalism His activity as founder and secretary of MIAR enabled him to establish a close working relationship with the high-up officials of the Fascist regime in Rome, where all the big decisions were taken about funding public construction programmes, and who were responsible for commissioning the hundreds of new public buildings required for Mussolini's modernisation programmes Thanks to these connections he had a prolific career throughout the Fascist regime and designed many notable buildings during the 1930s, some of which are masterpieces of the international modern movement One of the most important is his Palazzo dei Congressi (Palace of Congress) at the EUR in Rome This building shows Libera's great ability to design ambiguously in a spare, metaphysical language that sits on a knife-edge between modernism and neo-classicism 1932 Adalberto Libera City of Rome Maarten_Scheurwater 15

16 photo: Santi Caleca photo: Santi Caleca Lateran University Library Extension Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano Rome The Lateran University Library in Rome found itself unable to cope with the growing number of books and the increasing requests from users This resulted in the decision to create a new building to house a large, public reading room with annexed archives, easily accessible from both the external plaza and, via a first floor corridor, from the adjacent university buildings The new structure with the reading rooms is volumetrically characterized by a sharp contrast between solids and voids or, in terms of effect, between light and shadow These effects are obtained by significant cuts in the masonry and long strip windows that illuminate the interior spaces What is more, the decision to recess the glazing means there is no need for any 'add-on' form of shading; the façade itself functions as a brise-soleil Inside, the reading room is designed as an open central space encircled by a succession of three ramps Their stepped form is rendered lightweight by the use of glass balustrades photo: Santi Caleca Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Lighting designer King Roselli Architetti iguzzini Pontificial Lateran University Luigi_Prestinenza Monday - Friday: The library is normally not public, but with some luck you can encounter a visitor with keys Entry into the reading room is allowed for students of the Pontifical Lateran University, through a card smart Such a card can be issued to external students following a request to be presented at the reception Library Service: tel: Library Fax: biblioteca@pulit The library lies in-between the Via dei Laterani and the Palazzo del Laterano, somewhat hidden and accessed from a smaller street The Library is accessible from the center with lines Atac 81, 85, 87, is also reachable from Termini by metro line A, Manzoni and S Giovanni 16

17 photo: Andrea Jemolo photo: Andrea Jemolo Santo Volto di Gesu Via della Magliana Rome How to reconcile a vision of the divine, something that has generally been represented using the symbolic forms of the circle, sphere and central plan, with the requirements of a modern culture that tends to avoid the ideals of wholeness, perfection and hierarchy? Sartogo Architetti intelligently resolved this problem in Rome The first step entailed designing a semi-circular church hall and adding to this solid the void of an exterior apse, also semi-circular in form, so that the two forms complete one another The second step consisted of placing a large round window, reminiscent of medieval rose windows, in the perimeter wall This is coupled with the emerging form of a semi-dome, containing a parish centre, suggesting the possible transformation of the virtual circumference of the plan into a sphere The path that separates the church from the parish centre is a highly symbolic space and converges towards a focal point that is dominated by a narrow and elongated cross photo: Andrea Jemolo 2006 Artist Sartogo Architetti Associati Eliseo Mattiacci (Cross) Vicariato Opera Romana per la Preservazione della Fede e la Provvista di Nuove Chiese in Roma Luigi_Prestinenza 17

18 photo: René Rutgers photo: René Rutgers Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church Viale de Padre Pio San Giovanni Rotondo The newly inaugurated church, will serve the large number of pilgrims visiting the place where Saint Padre Pio used to live The materials, selected to express simplicity and solidity, are local stone, wood and glass The immense roof skin is finished in pre-patinated copper with a supporting structure of wood and limestone The supporting structure consists of two intermeshing rows of Apricena stone arches arranged in a circle, a total of 21, that form an inner and an outer The arches of the inner ring originate in the centre of the three-quarter circle, where the altar is located Since the spans of the arches steadily decrease, with the decreasing radius of the circle, a spiral shape is created that is reminiscent of a snail s shell The radial structure brings the assembly as close as possible to the altar The cost of the building, which took 10 years to design and build, has been met entirely by contributions from the faithful [source: arcspacecom] photo: René Rutgers Floor area/size m² General consultant Structural engineer Acoustics consultant Structural engineer Renzo Piano Arup Favero & Milan Ingegneria Helmut Müller Merk Holzbau Frati Minori Cappuccini (Foggia province) rrutgers 18

19 photo: Jherry Max photo: Jherry Max Street Lab Piazza dei Cinquecento Rome The installation aims to create a space for the 'urban performance art' such as mural painting, skating and hip hop culture in general, where two activities can interact: the 'actor' of the performance and the 'viewer and user' of it, in an attempt to undo time and space barriers between 'work' implementation and its fruition The final idea is therefore a kind of 'square for graffiti' in which brutal elements of design furnishing (such as containers, 'Innocenti' pylons) deliberately collide and interact with the background objects (Serviane Walls, the roof of Termini railway station, subway stairs, etc) This forms a defined, fluid but visually open space The space could be contemporarily experienced by artists and spectators inside but also, for subsequent views, from the outside, without a clear division into functional areas, but creating instead a sort of urban, controlled chaos photo: Jherry Max , Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner BRRE architects BRRE_architects Grandi Stazioni 19

20 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff Lido di Ostia Post Office Piazzale della Posta Lido di Ostia The central post office of Lido di Ostia, the small port town south of Rome, was constructed as part of Mussolini's rebuilding efforts of the 1920s and 1930s The architect's style varied widely depending on the commission (from a stripped-down classicism, to streamline modern) and he was associated with second-wave Futurism for a time (co-authoring the Manifesto of Aerial ure with FT Marinetti) Mazzoni's ties to the Fascist regime led him to build many post offices, train stations, and other public buildings throughout This post office in Lido di Ostia contains a mix of styles, with a circular colonnade recalling precedents from antiquity, and a large tower reminiscent of Sant'Ellia's sketches and showing influence from the Viennese Wagner school The cladding is in thin Roman brick and travertine, an attempt to recall the glory of ancient Rome in this eclectic, modern structure photo: Evan Chakroff 1934 Angiolo Mazzoni evanc Monday - Friday: From Rome Metro B Piramide, take the Ostia Lido train line (1 Euro each way) to the Lido Centro station The post office is two blocks south and one block west of the station, at Piazzale Della Posta 20

21 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff La Sapienza University Campus Sapienza University of Rome Rome Piacentini was appointed by Mussolini to design the masterplan for what is now known as 'La Sapienza' (Università di Roma) campus He designed the main building, but many young Italian architects of the day contributed to the scheme: Arnaldo Foschini (Monumental Entrance), Pietro Aschieri (Faculty of Chemistry), Giuseppe Pagano (Institute of Physics), Giuseppe Capponi (Botany & Pharmacology), Gaetano Rapisardi (Faculty of Law), Gio Ponti (Institute of Mathematics) and Giovanni Michelucci (Mineralogy & Geology) The masterplan was intended to include "very Roman" buildings in brick and travertine, but the young designers used these materials primarily as cladding on buildings constructed using the latest building technologies and stripped of ornament in a Roman interpretation of international Modernism The complex stands in contrast to the EUR district of several years later, as it represents Fascist modernism yet still retains a human sense of scale photo: Evan Chakroff 1935, Urban planner Associate architect Associate architect Associate architect Associate architect Marcello Piacentini Arnaldo Foschini Gaetano Rapisardi Gio Ponti Giovanni Michelucci evanc La Sapienza is within a 20 minute walk of Termini Station From Termini, head south-west on Via Marsala (which runs along the north side of the tracks) Turn left on Via Castro Pretorio, follow this as it turns into Viale dell'universita Turn right on Viale della Scienza The main entrance will be on your left 21

22 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff La Rinascente Rome Piazza Fiume Rome Albini's work had always dealt with history and tradition but here he used varied historical references in concert to produce something contemporary Perhaps taking the meaning of 'La Rinascente' - 'the rebirth' - too literally, his design maintains the basic massing of the 1887 Rinascente building on Via Del Corso and transmutes the geometry of its cornice profiles into steel The expressed steel frame structure is complemented by red masonry infill panels whose material mirrors the immediate context However, these are not simply flat infill panels; they are folded, and the subtle geometry suggests engaged columns: a Renaissance façade redone with contemporary technology photo: Evan Chakroff 1961 Main designer, Franco Albini Franca Helg La Rinascente evanc 22

23 photo: FD photo: FD MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Via Reggio Emilia Rome The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO) is a municipal art museum located in the north-east of Rome,, on Via Reggio Emilia The project began in the late 1990s over the site old factories Peroni After an initial phase of restructuring of the site which allowed the opening of six rooms in September 1999, the museum was officially opened October 11, 2002 Since 2003 the museum also have an annex entitled MACRO Future and composed of two refurbished flats of 1000 m2 each, in the former slaughterhouse of Rome, located in the neighborhood Testaccio Since July 2004, an extension is being built in order to present all of the permanent collection These arrangements have been entrusted to the French architect Odile Decq The extension consists of an exhibition space and a roof terrace, connected with the old museum through a fluid and continuous route Floor area/size m² ODBC MACRO haaijk photo: Raban Haaijk Tuesday-Sunday 900am-700pm; 24th and 31th December 900am-200pm (the ticket office closes half an hour in advance) Walk from Metro Castro Pretorio 23

24 photo: Milani Guiseppi photo: Milani Guiseppi Baths of Caracalla Via delle Terme di Caracalla Rome Two existing basement artifacts in the area of the Baths of Caracalla have been completely restored, masked and reused as a coffee bar and information office The new artefacts want to carry on a soft dialogue with the landscape and the huge Roman ruins, without competing but borrowing some of their features: the geometry from the softly rolling land and the colours and texture of the Ruins photo: Milani Guiseppi Giuseppe Milani EXGRAU Tue-Sun: h Mon: h 24

25 photo: Fabio Quici photo: Fabio Quici Church San Pio da Pietralcina Via Giorgio de Lullo Rome The plan is on a square, but the spectacular elevation of the frontage is formed from three parabolic arches of different sizes in one broad white concrete strip forming the roof line, with the centre of the strip recessed Two arches form the left hand side of the façade, the middle one having a vertical axis and being the highest, and the left hand one having its axis tilted to the left and being half the height The right hand side of the façade is a low sweeping arch with its axis tilted to the right The infill is white walling either side of the entrance under the low arch, and horizontal tessellated rectangular windows interspersed with white panels within the curves of the arches The curve of the roof gathers up the three arches at the front, and merges them into one low arch at the sanctuary end The façade here has a white panel completely surrounded by tessellated rectangular windows in clear glass photo: Fabio Quici 2010 Studio di Architettura Anselmi & Associati Giovanna De Sanctis Ricciardone Mauro Angeletti Opera Romana per la Preservazione della Fede e la Provvista di Nuove Chiese in Roma, SE Monsignor Ernesto Mandara Artist Services engineer FABIO_Q 25

26 photo: Antonino Saggio photo: Antonino Saggio Stazione Tiburtina Piazzale della Stazione Tiburtina Rome Roma Tiburtina is the second largest railway station in Rome, after Roma Termini Located in the north-eastern part of the city, it is being redeveloped as a hub for the Italian high speed rail services instead of Termini, which is a terminal station Outstanding new example in Rome of a large scale project The bridge-like railway station organization solves many issues The building presents itself with a story cantilever to the city and its long span organization creates several spatial surprises The new station is expected to reach a daily ridership of over 450,000 by 2015 It is served by 140 high speed trains and 290 regional trains every day photo: Antonino Saggio Floor area/size m² ABDR AntoninoSaggio 6 am 12 pm take subway line B Exit Stazione Tiburtina 26

27 photo: mtstudio photo: mtstudio Sensory Garden at Parco delle Rupicole Via delle Rupicole Rome photo: mtstudio Rupicole Park is located in the east part of Rome, close to the GRA The district has one of the highest percentages of residents with physical, sensory or psychic disabilities The decision to locate the "sensory garden" in this position is the result of the consideration that on the border, with direct access to the garden, stands a housing community for persons with disabilities The goal is to create a space for all residents of the neighborhood, where they can be carried out in play, socialization, job placement and rehabilitation, such as: training of gardening for people with various disabilities; laboratories in the green areas for children, teens and adults with disabilities; ortotheraphy and aromatherapy practice; job placement in the management and arrangement of the garden by guests of the community housing; integration among the guests of the housing community, residents of the neighbourhood (children, adults and elderly) and institutions in that area Floor area/size m² Landscape designer mtstudio Prof Antonella Canini Rome Municipality mtstudio Every day from 9:00 am to 18:00 h By car, by train line Roma - Giardinetti stop Walter Tobagi 27

28 photo: Carola Clemente photo: Carlo Peiser Federico Caffe Via Silvio D'Amico Rome The building plan is a projection of the three functions that will assume: didactic, research and general management It is composed by three joined constructions: The classrooms and library building; the laboratory, workshops and studios building connected to the general management The space and morphologic articulation of the complex reflects the functional articulation of the activities hosted inside This was planned to help spatial recognition and, as well, to put emphasis on the functions The three buildings are formally self dependant, but in a clearly interlocked manner, tough keeping their own identities The urban fitting of the new university complex is a chance to create a new space acting as a reconnection element between urban systems and architectural modules, nowadays split Toward this goes the ability for neighbour citizens to access spaces properly built by the university administration: the cafeteria, the parking and many other public areas inside the complex Floor area/size m² Contractor Spsk: Studio di Architettura e Ingegneria Astaldi Spa Università di Roma Tre clementeca photo: Carlo Peiser 8:00 am - 8:00 pm metro B, Basilica di SPaolo 28