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1 gita roma Projects 13 Created 23-Jun-12 By francesco campagnari, verona, La Sapienza University Campus Marcello Piacentini laboratorium, student housing, university La Rinascente Rome Palazzo delle Poste Monument of Fosse Ardeatine Palazzetto dello Sport Auditorium Parco della Musica Il Girasole 9 Corviale 10 EUR district 11 Marcello Piacentini urban plan 5 Netherlands Embassy 12 Berlin, Germany OMA - Rem Koolhaas embassy, housing 6 Page Memorial 13 Berlin, Germany Zvi Hecker memorial space, monument 7 Renzo Piano auditorium, music theatre 4 Pier Luigi Nervi sport Maxxi Mario Fiorentino housing Mario Fiorentino monument 3 Adalberto Libera office Zaha Hadid s museum Franco Albini cafe, commercial space, shop 2 Serralves Museum 14 Porto, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira auditorium, library, museum 8 Luigi Moretti apartment, private house 1

2 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 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 2

3 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 3

4 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 4

5 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 Artist 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 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 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 7

8 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

9 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 6 9

10 Corviale Via Poggio Verde Rome Corviale is one of the housing projects built on the outskirts of Rome in the 1970's as part of the 1964 regional plan to alleviate crowding in the older central city It is well-known as the longest single residential building in Europe: an 11-story high slab of apartments nearly 1 km in length Conceived as an independent community for about 8000 people including other facilities such as schools, shopping, recreation facilities and even a church, the building was based on the idea of social housing to provide all needed infrastructures of a city within the complex itself, and to encourage social contacts between the occupants For internal and political reasons many of these originally planned structures were never realized or are, almost 20 years after the first occupants moved in, still unfinished The area suffers from the lack of an adequate metropolitan infrastructure and it remains isolated from the greater city of which it was intended to be a part photo: Letizia Gañan 1983 Mario Fiorentino Instituto Autonomo per le Case Populari Maarten_Scheurwater The general public places inside this housing block are open for the public to visit Better not go there at night! Metro A (red line): Termini Cornelia (10 stops) Bus 889: with direction Mazzacurati (26 stops), get out at poggio verde/quadrelli 10

11 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 11

12 photo: Piotr Krajewski photo: Piotr Krajewski Netherlands Embassy Klosterstrasse Berlin Germany The new Dutch embassy is located in the Berlin-Mitte district, the earliest heart of the German capital, in-between the River Spree and the omnipresent TV tower on Alexanderplatz In 2005 OMA won the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin: The jury felt that the embassy was a powerful reconceptualization of the notion of an embassy, a government agency, and a building block within a city OMA's refusal to either adapt to the city grid or create a monument, choosing instead to create a carefully formed fragment that leaves open the question of what the identity of a government or a country should be, was much appreciated It was also felt that the spiraling trajectory that winds its metal-clad way through the whole block while allowing carefully framed views of the neighbouring city, produced such a seductive series of spaces carried out with such a sophistication of materials and visual effects and so revealing of its context, that it should receive the prize Floor area/size m² Main designer, Interior architect Services engineer Cooperating designer Lighting designer Project manager Supplier OMA - Rem Koolhaas Inside Outside Huygen Elwako Inside Outside OVI, Washinton DC Royal Haskoning Lensvelt Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs MI_MOA photo: Piotr Krajewski 12

13 photo: Michael Krueger photo: Michael Krueger Page Memorial Axel-Springer Strasse Berlin Germany Many German synagogues were ransacked and more than two hundred of them were even burned down on Kristallnacht, November Among them was the Synagogue on the Lindenstrasse in Berlin, that had been built by architects Cremer and Wolffenstein in 1881 This modest page memorial for the Lindenstrasse Synagogue by the Polish-Israeli architect Zvi Hecker brings back the memory and traces of Jewish life in Kreuzberg that had been erased completely for many years Hecker has done so by reconstructing the arrangement of benches that had once stood in the synagogue The focus on this element reinforces a sensation of absence of the synagogue and even more, the loss of its congregation Floor area/size m² Artist Zvi Hecker Eyal Weizman Micha Ullman Barmer Ersatzkasse Berlin olivier_van_den_hoven photo: Michael Krueger unregular The memorial is located in the courtyard of the Barmer Erzatskasse Check the satellite images to see its exact location You can recognize the design clearly 13

14 photo: João Morgado photo: João Morgado Serralves Museum Rua DJoão de Castro Porto Portugal A roughly north-south longitudinal axis serves as the framework for the project Two asymmetrical wings branch off to the south from the main body of the museum, creating a courtyard between them, while another courtyard is formed at the northern end between the L-shaped volume of the auditorium and the public entrance atrium The volume of the main building is divided between exhibition spaces, offices and storage, an art library and a restaurant with adjoining terrace The auditorium and bookstore have independent entrances and may be used when the museum itself is closed The exhibition area is composed of several rooms, connected by a large U-shaped gallery - it occupies most of the entrance level, extending to the lower floor in one of the wings The large doors that separate the different exhibition spaces and partition walls can be used to create different routes or organize separate exhibitions simultaneously Floor area/size m² Alvaro Siza Vieira Fundação Serralves JMMM photo: João Morgado Winter: MUSEUM VILLA PARK Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 7 pm Summer: MUSEUM Tuesday to Friday: 10 am to 7 pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 10 am to 8 pm VILLA Tuesday to Sunday (and Public Holidays): 10 am to 7 pm PARK Tuesday to Friday: 10 am to 7 pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 10 am to 8 pmserralves Foundation is closed on Mondays, except for the Auditorium bar and Restaurant/Cafetaria Service and on December 25 and January 1 Near Avenida Marechal Gomes da Costa/Avenida da Boavista BUSES: 201, 203, 207, 502, 504 and Tourism Circuit METRO: Exit at the Casa da Música Station, with connection via the buses 201, 203, 502 and 504 at the Boavista Rotunda Entrance is via the Largo D João III (next to the French School) You can get a architectural tour through the museum on Sundays on 15h00-16h00 Tours are free upon purchase of an entrance ticket to the Museum 14