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LABORATORI MAXXI Rome
LABORATORI MAXXI Rome
Rome, Italy
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LABORATORI MAXXI Rome
Rome, Italy
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STATUS
Concept
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The proposed extension acts as a connection between urban planning, landscape design and architecture. The main purpose of the project is to boost the urban regeneration process already put in place by the MAXXI itself: the project fits into the palimpsest of the previous visions elaborated for the city of Rome, broadening their scope with a whole new attention and setting their direction towards the most important themes of our time, such as sustainability and innovation. The symbol of the whole system is the new building, an architectural object that serves as the main focal point of the entire proposal. The extension of the museum strives to create a strong physical and ideal relationship with the MAXXI and the urban fabric of its surroundings. It is a project that aims to equip the entire intervention with the tools to deal with a changing world without distorting its past and deepening its complementarity to an iconic pre-existence with which to establish a direct relationship.
DESCRIPTION
Fragments and memories represent the main ideas behind the new concept. This intervention is intended as an act of maximum integration between urban, landscape, and architectural design. Moving within the framework of a sought-after mutual influence, the building and the landscape share the same creation mechanism. First and foremost, the landscape is a tool to link the city of Rome and the lines drawn on this piece of its public space by Zaha Hadid. Splinters of memories related to the past design legacy help to draw the new public space and, consequently, the new building. The linear park proceeds from west to east as a succession of fragments with multifaceted characteristics: different botanical episodes and varied functional characterization follow one another until they reach the project lot which represents the end of the landscape itself. The first strong relationship between the building and the park is created here. The main facade of the former is set by an alignment with the city plot sought by the latter. The new architectural mass is cut to gain tension in the corner between Masaccio Street and Alghiero Boetti Square. The uniformity of the urban design is extended to the rest of the intervention area, catalyzing attention, once again, to the concept of the fragment and its related formal counterpart of the splinter. The polygonal lines of the landscape are mixed with those of the building: the new architectural mass takes up the thrusting articulation of the MAXXI, making it its own with a deliberately less sinuous and more angular touch. The project is thus configured as a dynamic succession of different contours, juxtaposed one on top of the other to generate a coherent form. Its hard, monolithic shell unfolds into a system of hanging terraces that proceed from the lowest floors to the roof, connecting, in fact, to the linear park and ideally continuing its path.
Finally, the crowning of the new building is the conceptually strongest element of architectural design. By aligning at the same height as the Museum of National Arts of the 21st Century, the project creates the conditions for an ideal, physical and formal relationship with Zaha Hadid's intervention. Just as the MAXXI ends with a distinctive cantilevered telescope over Alghiero Boetti Square, the new building embraces the same canon, mirroring a belvedere similar to that of the existing museum: two privileged points of visual enjoyment of the surrounding city, looking at each other, tracing a direct line capable of physically connecting past and future.
TEAM
SPACE TRAVELLERS
Matteo Arietti
Andrea Bulloni
Matteo Ciabattini, Sara Maria Camagni, Aurora Fleres
Visualisation
NUBE Architetture
DESCRIPTION
Fragments and memories represent the main ideas behind the new concept. This intervention is intended as an act of maximum integration between urban, landscape, and architectural design. Moving within the framework of a sought-after mutual influence, the building and the landscape share the same creation mechanism. First and foremost, the landscape is a tool to link the city of Rome and the lines drawn on this piece of its public space by Zaha Hadid. Splinters of memories related to the past design legacy help to draw the new public space and, consequently, the new building. The linear park proceeds from west to east as a succession of fragments with multifaceted characteristics: different botanical episodes and varied functional characterization follow one another until they reach the project lot which represents the end of the landscape itself. The first strong relationship between the building and the park is created here. The main facade of the former is set by an alignment with the city plot sought by the latter. The new architectural mass is cut to gain tension in the corner between Masaccio Street and Alghiero Boetti Square. The uniformity of the urban design is extended to the rest of the intervention area, catalyzing attention, once again, to the concept of the fragment and its related formal counterpart of the splinter. The polygonal lines of the landscape are mixed with those of the building: the new architectural mass takes up the thrusting articulation of the MAXXI, making it its own with a deliberately less sinuous and more angular touch. The project is thus configured as a dynamic succession of different contours, juxtaposed one on top of the other to generate a coherent form. Its hard, monolithic shell unfolds into a system of hanging terraces that proceed from the lowest floors to the roof, connecting, in fact, to the linear park and ideally continuing its path.
Finally, the crowning of the new building is the conceptually strongest element of architectural design. By aligning at the same height as the Museum of National Arts of the 21st Century, the project creates the conditions for an ideal, physical and formal relationship with Zaha Hadid's intervention. Just as the MAXXI ends with a distinctive cantilevered telescope over Alghiero Boetti Square, the new building embraces the same canon, mirroring a belvedere similar to that of the existing museum: two privileged points of visual enjoyment of the surrounding city, looking at each other, tracing a direct line capable of physically connecting past and future.
TEAM
SPACE TRAVELLERS
Matteo Arietti
Andrea Bulloni
Matteo Ciabattini, Sara Maria Camagni, Aurora Fleres
Visualisation
NUBE Architetture
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