This project serves as an urban design solution for the busy neighbourhood between il Teatro di Marcello e il Campidoglio. The project started with a generative study of how the urban fabric of Rome is generated, and how the different urban gestures can be transformed and catalogued in order to create harmonious interventions. The studies were applied to the site, as well as projecting important site-lines tra de’ll Campidoglio e il Teatro, e il Monumento di Vittorio Emanuele. The program for such intervention was a “Tourist Vortex”, a place in which tourists can become acquainted with the city with a large performance theatre, shops, and exhibition.

In section, the building uses the slope of the site to accommodate the performing arts theatre, while having viewing platforms to have spatial dialogue with the stage. The main entrance to the north is shared with the exhibition space, in which a descending stair undulates below a suspended glass volume containing a bar, and sight line viewing il Teatro di Marcello. The roof consists of a gradually descending stair the leads from the Campidoglio down to il Teatro. The roof planning encourages pedestrian passage across and through the site, while masking the mass of the building below. This makes such a large intervention easier on the delicate urban fabric that makes Rome such a wonderful place to be.