Rome Projects 15 Created 28-Sep-16 By Levente Szczuka, Budapest, Hungary Auditorium Parco della Musica Rome, Renzo Piano auditorium, music theatre Palazzetto dello Sport Ara Pacis Museum Maxxi Olympic Village 1960 Lateran University Library Extension 5 Street Lab MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art 11 Baths of Caracalla 12 Public Garden in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 13 Rome, Giuseppe Milani park, square 6 Ponte della Musica 14 Rome, Powell-Williams s bridge 7 Cafe Canova 15 Rome, T-studio cafe, restaurant 8 Rome, King Roselli Architetti library 10 Rome, Giuseppe Milani information centre Rome, King Roselli Architetti hotel 4 Rome, Luigi Moretti dwellings, housing, sport Radisson Sas ES La Sapienza University Campus Rome, ODBC museum Rome, Zaha Hadid s museum 3 Rome, Richard Meier museum Rome, Marcello Piacentini laboratorium, student housing, university Rome, Pier Luigi Nervi sport 2 Federico Caffe 16 Rome, Spsk: Studio di Architettura e Ingegneria university 9 Rome, BRRE architects exposition space, skatepark, square http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 1
photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Auditorium Parco della Musica Viale Pietro de Coubertin 15 00196 Rome http://wwwauditoriumcom/ 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 12-2002 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 2
photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Palazzetto dello Sport Piazza Apollodoro 1 00196 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 1979 1957 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 3
Ara Pacis Museum Lungotevere in Augusta 00100 Rome http://wwwarapacisit/ 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 4
photo: Raban Haaijk photo: Raban Haaijk Maxxi Via Guido Reni 6 00196 Rome http://wwwfondazionemaxxiit/ 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 1100-1900 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 5
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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 6
Radisson Sas ES Via Filippo Turati 171 00185 Rome http://wwwradissonsascom/ Designed in a minimalist style, the Radisson SAS Es Hotel is the ideal place from which to explore the historic city of Rome Built on one of the seven hills of Rome, known as the Esquiline quarter, the hotel has imperial surroundings where history harmoniously coexists with contemporary lifestyles Esquilino hill is one of the highest in Rome so the views from the wooden decking of the terraces give a panorama of the whole of the north, south and east of the city out to the Alban hills urally speaking, the project has very little to do with the 19th century style of the other areas and rather more to do with the play of volumes originating in the 2km travertine wall of the station lying to the north side of the building This reference is reinforced by the use of a special plaster using a very traditional mix to give a travertine colour which in time and with help of the smog and the reddish rail dust will become part and parcel of the station complex 2002 King Roselli Architetti Radisson Sas Maarten_Scheurwater from termini: walk from piazza dei cinquecento to via Giovanni giolitti The Radisson SAS Hotel is in the Esquiline quarter, one of the Seven Hills of Rome Located just a short distance from the train station, the hotel is 30 minutes away from the Fiumicino Airport http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 7
photo: Santi Caleca photo: Santi Caleca Lateran University Library Extension Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano 4 00120 Rome http://cmspulit/ 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 10-2006 2660 m² Lighting designer King Roselli Architetti iguzzini Pontificial Lateran University Luigi_Prestinenza Monday - Friday: 0830-1845 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: 06-69895609 Library Fax: 06-69886107 e-mail: 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 8
photo: Jherry Max photo: Jherry Max Street Lab Piazza dei Cinquecento 1 00100 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 2007-2007, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner BRRE architects BRRE_architects Grandi Stazioni http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 9
photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff La Sapienza University Campus Sapienza University of Rome 00185 Rome http://wwwuniroma1it/ 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 10
photo: FD photo: FD MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Via Reggio Emilia 54 00198 Rome http://wwwmacroromamuseum/ 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 12-2010 12000 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 11
photo: Milani Guiseppi photo: Milani Guiseppi Baths of Caracalla Via delle Terme di Caracalla 52 00153 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 5-2000 Giuseppe Milani EXGRAU Tue-Sun: 900-1630 h Mon: 900-1400 h http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 12
photo: Milani Guiseppe photo: Milani Guiseppe Public Garden in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 1 00185 Rome The project has returned a new life to an untended garden located in one of the largest squares of the historical district of Rome The area shows a palimpsest of historical layers: fountains and aqueducts from Imperial City, the Renaissance urban plan by Pope Sixtus V, Baroque villas and gardens A regular urban development after 1870 including some modern technical plants of the Rome Subway The new design tends to celebrate and ideally connect all the historical fragments A set of streams and new fountains keep memory of the lost aqueducts The technical plants in the central area have been masked by some forms recalling elements of the Renaissance Italian Garden, such as a 'Green Theatre', the 'Stone Tree', a ramp and a 'Belvedere' They stand on a paved semicircular place like metaphysical pieces of scenery, on a stage which wants to be inhabited by people photo: Milani Guiseppe Floor area/size 1994 33600 m² Giuseppe Milani Comune di Roma EXGRAU 5 minutes walk from Termini train Station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 13
photo: Fabio quici photo: Fabio Quici Ponte della Musica Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 1 00100 Rome The 'Music Bridge' named due to its vicinity with the prestigious Parco della Musica Auditorium by Renzo Piano is a key part of the Rome city plan which involves the development of a new east-west axis along the Via Guido Reni on the east bank of the Tiber It connects the various cultural and sporting facilities of the Flaminio district with the Olympic stadium and other sports facilities on the west bank in Monte Mario photo: Fabio Quici 2011 Technical engineer Structural engineer Structural engineer Powell-Williams s Buro Happold Carlo Lotti & Associati Mario Petrangeli Associati Comune di Roma FABIO_Q http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 14
photo: T-studio photo: T-studio Cafe Canova Piazza del Popolo 16-17 00187 Rome http://lnxcanovapiazzadelpopoloit/ The reconstruction of the "Canova cafe" placed on one of the most famous place in Roma "Piazza del Popolo" It involved renovating the inner spaces, as well as the service area and the garden to make the place more comfortable and inviting Because of the historical context the project joins together contemporary interior with the history of the place Four different theme have been used The entrance, such a representative area, with the long counter, welcomes the guests Next to the bar, the so called?giardino segreto? (secret garden) shows itself as an illuminated box, made of glass Along this box, a green area which gives name to the place The third theme is dedicated to Federico Fellini, who daily visited the Canova bar the corridor to go to "Fellini hall" is made of illuminated bands and niches The last theme involves the service areas with bathroom and kitchen A warm light, placed over the guest tables and indirect light to give character to the space are involved Floor area/size 2009 400 m² T-studio ARBA srl T-studio photo: T-studio 8:00-00:00 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 15
photo: Carola Clemente photo: Carlo Peiser Federico Caffe Via Silvio D'Amico 77 00145 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 10-2006 15000 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nselence/guides/rome/ 16