Situated on the Celio Hill in Rome overlooking the Colosseum, this design incorporates the language of the traditional Roman villa and garden to create a mixture of public and private garden space. The private portion is designed to house a new museum of cartography featuring maps of the city of Rome. The most impressive member of this collection is a plastico model of the city situated beneath a large brick pavilion such that it can be viewed both up close from below and within the context of the city from above.
Alongside existing buildings on the site, I also designed a museum in the Roman villa style, a botanical plan featuring local fauna, and several other features throughout the park. In the second half of the semester, I have the opportunity to develop these ideas in more detail to complete the intervention on this site.
