Rome Projects 9 Created 12-Jun-17 By Maciek Grelewicz,?ód?, Poland EUR district Marcello Piacentini urban plan Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana Corviale 3 Auditorium Parco della Musica 4 Palazzetto dello Sport 7 Maxxi 8 Olympic Village 1960 9 Luigi Moretti dwellings, housing, sport 5 Renzo Piano auditorium, music theatre Jubilee Church Zaha Hadid s museum Mario Fiorentino housing Richard Meier church Giovanni Guerrini museum 2 La Sapienza University Campus 10 Marcello Piacentini laboratorium, student housing, university 6 Pier Luigi Nervi sport http://wwwmimoaeu/users/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 1
EUR district Viale della civiltà del lavoro 100 00144 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 Giuseppe Pagano Benito Mussolini Metro B (blue line): termini Magliana/EUR marconi and EUR fermi http://wwwmimoaeu/users/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 2
Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana Viale della civiltà del lavoro 10 00144 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 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 3
Corviale Via Poggio Verde 100 00148 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 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 4
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 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/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 5
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/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 6
photo: Eelkje Meindertsma Jubilee Church Via Francesco Tovaglieri 00155 Rome http://wwwdiopadremisericordiosoit/ 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 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 7
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 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/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 8
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 From termini station take busline 217 (XVII OLIMPIADE) for 17 stops get off at stop XVII OLIMPIADE http://wwwmimoaeu/users/maciekgrelewicz/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/maciekgrelewicz/guides/rome/ 10