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Location: Rome
Type: Urban Renovation
Studio Instructor: Peter Eisenman
Time of Design: 2013.9~12
Status: Theoretical Work
Design: Xiaodi Sun
Collaborator: Jing Han
As of today, Piazza dei Cinquecento is a piece of chaotic urban space. Throughout the history of time, a variety of built forms have taken place on or near the site, each embeded with their own theory about planning or political visions. These waves of changes have shaped the site into what Piazza dei Cinquecento is today.
The project aims to turn the unstructured piazza between the termini station and the Baths of Diocletian into an urban space that is aggregated with multiple organizational logics related to what happened in history. Through the operations of mirroring, framing, figuring, urban carving and urban infilling, the proposal addresses the monuments’ inherent autonomy as well as their conflicts with the surrounding context.
The re-structured piazza becomes a place rich in various readings of urban figures and frames. This project is an addition and a connection, a fragment itself but a full embrace of the past and the present.
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Location: Rome
Type: Urban Renovation
Studio Instructor: Peter Eisenman
Time of Design: 2013.9~12
Status: Theoretical Work
Design: Xiaodi Sun
Collaborator: Jing Han
As of today, Piazza dei Cinquecento is a piece of chaotic urban space. Throughout the history of time, a variety of built forms have taken place on or near the site, each embeded with their own theory about planning or political visions. These waves of changes have shaped the site into what Piazza dei Cinquecento is today.
The project aims to turn the unstructured piazza between the termini station and the Baths of Diocletian into an urban space that is aggregated with multiple organizational logics related to what happened in history. Through the operations of mirroring, framing, figuring, urban carving and urban infilling, the proposal addresses the monuments’ inherent autonomy as well as their conflicts with the surrounding context.
The re-structured piazza becomes a place rich in various readings of urban figures and frames. This project is an addition and a connection, a fragment itself but a full embrace of the past and the present.