Scope: 4B - Rome Program - Final Project
Supervisor: Beatrice Bruscoli
Year: 2022
Tools: Rhino | InDesign | Twin Motion | Hand Sketching
Collaborator: Garrett McGill

Janus is the gateway. Contemporary Rome is disconnected from the River Tiber, once deified and forever the source of life in Rome. Just outside the Janiculum walls, lies the Arsenale complex for ship-building, once a busy shipping connection, now a forgotten Baroque fragment. Finally, the Porta Portese Market, a long-standing cultural icon in the city visited by more on a weekly basis than mass in St. Peter’s, exists only on a stretch of road outside the official city.

Janus proposes a connection of all these socio-political, urban, suburban, and natural phenomena. To make the market’s place official, to bring people up and down to the Tiber, and to link the classical museum landscape within the city to its counterpart.

The project is a campus of buildings creating urban rooms through landscaping, and exposing the public to the museum of the Tiber in a fabric of lively pavilions and shops.

PLAN

The plan shows the combinations of interior and exterior rooms which make up the composition. The temporary gallery, or “temple”, makes up the river-edge condition and draws the eye and passers by up to the museum level. This is an architectural intervention which plays with the porosity of the staunch flood walls which make up the Tiber-side today.

The market plan shows weekly temporary stalls filling up the market square between the permanent stall pavilions. This gives an official, planned, and well needed permanent presence to the Porta Portese Market in the city of Rome.