PRG: Museo della Scienza
Rome, IT
An aerial site precedent demonstrating how a contemporary science museum massing integrates with historic Roman urban fabric through terraced green roofs and transparent vertical additions.
- What we like about this project
- The upper transparent volume acts as a luminous pavilion floating above the planted terraced roof.
Materials
- masonry
- glass
- planting
- terracotta
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- stepped-green-roof
- glass-superstructure
- historic-context
- urban-masterplan
Style tags
- contextual
- contemporary
- urban-integration
Visual tags
- aerial
- urban-design
- historic-integration
- green-roof
- public-realm
- Geometry
- Low-rise terraced building volumes integrate with existing historic urban grain, stepping up with a stepped green roof and a lightweight glazed superstructure.
- Facade system
- Combination of solid punched-window masonry base and fully glazed upper floors.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame base supporting lightweight steel and glass upper volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale aerial perspective showing multi-block urban integration and pedestrian-scaled plazas.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows across the cityscape and hardscapes.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic atmosphere bridging historic context with forward-looking architecture.
- Environmental context
- Dense historic European urban fabric with terracotta roofs, traditional churches, and modern residential blocks in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The masterplan weaves new museum massing between historic basilicas and mid-rise residential fabric, creating continuous public plazas and accessible roof gardens.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating linear rows of green roof plantings align with the base building's structural rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary urban integration
- Program
- Museum and public realm masterplan
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban
- Materials
- masonry, glass, planting, terracotta, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-green-roof, glass-superstructure, historic-context, urban-masterplan
- Style tags
- contextual, contemporary, urban-integration
- Visual tags
- aerial, urban-design, historic-integration, green-roof, public-realm
- Geometry
- Low-rise terraced building volumes integrate with existing historic urban grain, stepping up with a stepped green roof and a lightweight glazed superstructure.
- Facade system
- Combination of solid punched-window masonry base and fully glazed upper floors.
- Structural guess
- Concrete frame base supporting lightweight steel and glass upper volumes.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale aerial perspective showing multi-block urban integration and pedestrian-scaled plazas.
- Lighting
- Diffused overcast daylight casting soft shadows across the cityscape and hardscapes.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, civic atmosphere bridging historic context with forward-looking architecture.
- Environmental context
- Dense historic European urban fabric with terracotta roofs, traditional churches, and modern residential blocks in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The masterplan weaves new museum massing between historic basilicas and mid-rise residential fabric, creating continuous public plazas and accessible roof gardens.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating linear rows of green roof plantings align with the base building's structural rhythm.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary urban integration
- Program
- Museum and public realm masterplan
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban