Architecture / Landscape Architecture in Rome 2011 by Chris Tritt

ARCHITECTURE / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN ROME 2011

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ecture & Landscape Architecture ROME, 2011

outline & Profile

Shade & Shadow

Diagram & Abstraction

Seven Studio Projects

Outlines and profile edges were explored as an expressive drawing type early in the program. The rich slopes and edges of Cinque Terre and the sweeping brick landscape of Sienna challenged the students to consider the potential character of a line.

Outline & Profile

Siena, Florence

“View From Loggia”

Cerveteri

Shade and shadow were explored in Cerveteri, at the Maxxi Museum, and back around Rome. Students were challenged to consider light conditions, blending classic and modern Italy through the common condition of light.

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Shade & Shadow

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Diagram and Abstraction was explored as an analytical tool. Students explored, explained, and shared their observations and experiences of the spaces of Rome through diagrammatic analysis.

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Jocelyn Reutebuch

Natalia Chetvernina

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Adam Sharron

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Monica Thompson

Tera Hatfield

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embankment stairs / trash filters In Rome, one can often find polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water. Still, both are part of a single system. This reconciles these different ways of interacting with water. Water from the Tiber is pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. After it flows through a cistern and a filtration system, the water is finally experienced as it is released back into the landscape, within the embankment cut.

r will be pumped up along a former fortification, and tra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into t will run along the entire length of the site. The water d through a trickle filtration system, and released over t into the embankment will allow people to experience ered back down to the river through the soil. The cut river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the

e renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal ansforming it into offices, services for the museum on space. A smaller building will be stitched into the nale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new he scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will tation activities.

ng of trees across the middle section of the site will aid ess, but also direct views toward the two significant m the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine

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tra The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

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Natalia Chetvernina

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In an attempt to return agriculture to modern Rome, an intensive urban farm is installed. Greenhouses provide shade for crops in summer and protection in winter - an ideal growing environment year-round. Poultry and rabbits generate compost and protein. Produce and meat are consumed at an onsite restaurant. Tourist boats, re-purposed as water-borne greenhouses, add mobility and are used for product transport and demonstration.t

Adam Sharron

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“the sheer joy of vertical movement”

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Sam Kraft

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Reintroducing people to the Tiber river revolves around reintroducing industry to the Tiber. With the already-defined industry of music in Rome, the site is used to bring people together in a public space. A new Museum of Music, a recording studio, practice spaces, performance spaces, and a music market frame and activate this new Roman piazza; the only one bordering the river.

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A landscape that operates ecologically as well as didactically explores a new paradigm for Roman perception of the Tiber. Through a public walk and an Ecological Learning Center, the community can redefine itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship to the river, while improving itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own welfare and development.

Monica Thompson

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Installations Research model

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2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus 4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

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a.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbank d.Biohaven Test Islands

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LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALE

Pools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

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Environmental data on the Tiber River is lacking. Like the Tiber, the proposed site is lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people. ‘Decoding the Tiber’ proposes an :// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH urban river research center to investigate uncertain Tiber ecologies.The site allows a working and observed landscape, visualizing data disseminating knowledge.

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Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

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In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed PATH landscape. design VIA PORTUENESE COLAB ROCK TheFILTER deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” DRAIN platforms

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DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

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2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is N that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling  of seawater FILTER at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% was not polluted.”

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DATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome. DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

PRECEDENTS

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SEASONAL VOID Winter: H20 Storage Summer: Path & Seating

LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALE

Pools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE SUNKEN LAWN

DATA POOLS

VIEW PATH

2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

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In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections). VIEW PATH

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DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

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2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus 4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

a. :// SOFT Infrastructure

a.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbank d.Biohaven Test Islands

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:// DATA POOLS: Pool colors are linked to H20 quality at testing sites along the Tiber, changing temporally based on the health of the river.

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Stormwater + Tiber Circulation u.Cistern v.Wall Insertion/Slice w.Lookout Extension

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SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUS

LAB Circulation; x.Seating, y.Kayak Launch z.Lookout Arm

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

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://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

DECODING THE TIBER

Decoder Ring

site plan_DECODING THE TIBER

an urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

0’ 25’ 50’

100’

150’

:// DATA POOLS 250’

Testing, 123

Report an Incident ://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM

Testing Sites, 123

LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALE

Pools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

Connect the dots downstream

Connect:// CoLAB Tweets Decoder Installations

TIBER DECODER

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR WHATS

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YOUR

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://CHOOSE YOUR SATELLITE

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COLLECT

Data

://HOLD DAY 1

from up + downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.” DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

COLAB

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ROCK DRAIN

FILTER

SEASONAL VOID Winter: H20 Storage Summer: Path & Seating

SUNKEN LAWN

DATA POOLS

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://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

VIEW PATH

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UTILITY PATH

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

AIR/LAIR 2011