Smaller works, studies and drawings

A library on the banks of the Aniene, in the northern outskirts of Rome. The river is a forgotten place of great natural beauty and dramatic topography in a historically underserved part of the city. The proposal connects the rocky hill with the wide meadow below — a space that could one day become a beach for the city. More than a place for books, it offers the neighbourhood somewhere to gather and to reconnect with the landscape. Faculty of Architecture, La Sapienza, Prof. Alessandro Lanzetta.

Ascent to Antiquity, Descent to Modernity. The tension between the permanence of historic architecture and the fleeting sharpness of modern construction, worked out as a sculpture that can be read in two directions: ascending through the clean lines of the modern towards the weight of antiquity, or descending from the classical into the contemporary. Modernity appears as minimal, angular form; antiquity as one of the oldest architectural gestures, the arch. Moulded in plaster and concrete during the first year of studies, under Prof. Graff.

Alongside these: a proposal for a chapel with a coffered vault, the moulds and casts made for it, model photography, and the survey drawings and sketches that run through all of the work.