PRG: Museo della Scienza
Rome, IT
An aerial master plan precedent demonstrating how a contemporary science museum can integrate green-roofed terraced massing and transparent volumes into a dense historic Roman urban context.
- What we like about this project
- The integration of agricultural or green-roofed planting grids directly atop the lower structural podium.
Materials
- masonry
- glass
- planting
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- green-roof-terraces
- glazed-superstructure
- historic-urban-integration
- civic-plaza
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- urban-integration
Visual tags
- master-plan
- urban-infill
- civic
- green-roof
- contextual
- Geometry
- An extensive low-rise intervention featuring a green-roofed terraced grid structure coupled with a transparent multi-story glazed volume, integrated into an existing historic urban fabric.
- Facade system
- Combination of solid punched-opening masonry bases and lightweight multi-story glass curtain walls.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete framing with heavy masonry base walls.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale aerial perspective showing city blocks, a large public square, and multi-story building volumes.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting muted, gentle shadows across the historic rooftops and new complex.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, overcast daylight emphasizing the dialogue between ancient Roman urban grain and modern intervention.
- Environmental context
- Dense historic European urban center with mixed mid-rise masonry buildings, churches, and distant topography.
- Spatial experience
- The complex acts as a large urban block that stitches together civic open plazas, historic churches, and dense residential surroundings.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal agricultural and green roof strips repeat systematically, contrasting with the irregular organic density of the historic neighborhood.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary urban design
- Program
- Museum of Science (Museo della Scienza)
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban
- Materials
- masonry, glass, planting, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- green-roof-terraces, glazed-superstructure, historic-urban-integration, civic-plaza
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, urban-integration
- Visual tags
- master-plan, urban-infill, civic, green-roof, contextual
- Geometry
- An extensive low-rise intervention featuring a green-roofed terraced grid structure coupled with a transparent multi-story glazed volume, integrated into an existing historic urban fabric.
- Facade system
- Combination of solid punched-opening masonry bases and lightweight multi-story glass curtain walls.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete framing with heavy masonry base walls.
- Spatial scale
- Macro-scale aerial perspective showing city blocks, a large public square, and multi-story building volumes.
- Lighting
- Soft, overcast daylight casting muted, gentle shadows across the historic rooftops and new complex.
- Atmosphere
- Calm, overcast daylight emphasizing the dialogue between ancient Roman urban grain and modern intervention.
- Environmental context
- Dense historic European urban center with mixed mid-rise masonry buildings, churches, and distant topography.
- Spatial experience
- The complex acts as a large urban block that stitches together civic open plazas, historic churches, and dense residential surroundings.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal agricultural and green roof strips repeat systematically, contrasting with the irregular organic density of the historic neighborhood.
- Style reading
- Contextual contemporary urban design
- Program
- Museum of Science (Museo della Scienza)
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- urban