PRG: Museo della Scienza
Rome, IT
A public science museum facade precedent that layers a modern multi-story glass volume above a historic masonry base, creating a transparent urban threshold.
- What we like about this project
- A central helical ramp or stair pierces the multi-story glass volume behind the main entrance frieze.
Materials
- masonry
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- historic-masonry-base
- glass-superstructure
- central-courtyard
- helical-stair
- signage-friaze
Style tags
- contemporary
- adaptive-reuse
- transparent
- civic
Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse
- cultural
- public-realm
- transparency
- urban-infill
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a low, heavy masonry base framing a central courtyard view, topped by a multi-story glass-and-steel rectilinear volume.
- Facade system
- Restored masonry wall at grade with a structural steel and point-fixed or curtain-wall glazing system above.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame superstructure rising above reinforced concrete or masonry perimeter base walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large public science museum scale, spanning a low historic ground level beneath a multi-story transparent upper expansion.
- Lighting
- Even, diffuse daylight with balanced illumination between the shaded street plane and illuminated interior display screens.
- Atmosphere
- Open, public, and transparent; bridging historical weight with high-tech exhibition spaces.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with parked vehicles and pedestrian activity, integrating a restored historic low-rise facade with a contemporary superstructure.
- Spatial experience
- A monumental street-level threshold opens inward past a planted courtyard toward a central transparent volume anchored by a helical stair.
- Composition rhythm
- Axial symmetry with horizontal datum lines established by the historic frieze and stacked glass floors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention atop historic industrial fabric
- Program
- Science Museum and Public Forum
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- masonry, glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- historic-masonry-base, glass-superstructure, central-courtyard, helical-stair, signage-friaze
- Style tags
- contemporary, adaptive-reuse, transparent, civic
- Visual tags
- adaptive-reuse, cultural, public-realm, transparency, urban-infill
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a low, heavy masonry base framing a central courtyard view, topped by a multi-story glass-and-steel rectilinear volume.
- Facade system
- Restored masonry wall at grade with a structural steel and point-fixed or curtain-wall glazing system above.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame superstructure rising above reinforced concrete or masonry perimeter base walls.
- Spatial scale
- Large public science museum scale, spanning a low historic ground level beneath a multi-story transparent upper expansion.
- Lighting
- Even, diffuse daylight with balanced illumination between the shaded street plane and illuminated interior display screens.
- Atmosphere
- Open, public, and transparent; bridging historical weight with high-tech exhibition spaces.
- Environmental context
- Urban street edge with parked vehicles and pedestrian activity, integrating a restored historic low-rise facade with a contemporary superstructure.
- Spatial experience
- A monumental street-level threshold opens inward past a planted courtyard toward a central transparent volume anchored by a helical stair.
- Composition rhythm
- Axial symmetry with horizontal datum lines established by the historic frieze and stacked glass floors.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention atop historic industrial fabric
- Program
- Science Museum and Public Forum
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture