WALL WALK WORKSHOP
The week before spring break, our class did a collaborative workshop with the Iowa State University students and some Roma Tre students. This was an opportunity for us to work with people from other schools and even other countries.
The project was to design the upper atrium of a new subway station in Rome while accounting for the surrounding context as well as the ruins that were discovered beneath the site. Our solution was to cut a large outdoor "green piazza" in the center of the site. This serves to open up the lower level to allow light in so the atrium is not dark, as well as to have a central greenspace where people can gather. A large ramp that wraps around the piazza serves as the primary vertical circulation into the subway station's atrium level. This level contains the turnstiles and two shafts of vertical circulation to the actual subway platforms. The ramp provides views and a connection between the Aurelian wall remains to the north and the castra ruins to the south of the site, while tying together the old ruins and the new station. |