One street, one square, the flexible house

Laboratorio di progettazione 3 | Prof. Massimo Zammerini | 2016 Quartiere EUR | Rome

Individual project

The project theme is the flexibility, from the single public space to the private houses, with the terraced house design (from 60 to 200 mq) and technological drawings of basis house and bathroom. Masterplan, already provided, consists in a central street with houses and ateliers on either side, and it ends with a public facility building and a park. The chosen areas are two symmetrical areas on the sides of Cristoforo Colombo, in the EUR rationalist district in Rome. Considering the urban context, the project is like a hermetic quarter that uses an artificial enclosure (parking architecture) and a natural one (the front of Roman pines, typical EUR trees). Terraced houses, realised in concrete frame structure and combinable two by two, are a typological hybridization between a terraced house and a patio house. The roof garden becomes a continuous geometric carpet that follows the green and rationalist vocation of its surroundings.

Panoramic walk in Monte Mario

Optional course in Arte dei giardini | Prof. Andrea Di Carlo, Franco Zagari | 2017 Riserva naturale di Monte Mario | Rome Team masterplan | Martina Foschi| individual project

The Monte Mario natural reserve is my first meeting with landscape architecture. The goal is designing a pedestrian and horizontal path at 100 m slm that crosses the natural reserve from “Cimitero Militare Francese” to “Osservatorio astronomico”, for about 7 km. The path is like a sinuous line that thickens in the most beautiful points of the walk. Designing into a natural reserve, the project choices fell on more ecological solutions, such as the use of conteinment gabions, walk pavements in “terra stabilizzata” and panoramic points pavements in wood, balance between excavation and landfill operations in the sections. My individual project consists in a panoramic area near the pine forest of “Osservatorio astronomico”, in San Peter Church visual direction. It uses the horizontal line in different levels, manipulating the horizontal line in a sinuous one in the three directions.