Roman Villa
Proposal for a Roman villa developed for the exhibition Re-constructivist Architecture.
The actual site of the countryside as mythical place, as locus amoenus, is the periphery. This anthropized arcadia was turned into fragmented spaces and partial representations, as contemporary production of space is free from urban tasks, poor in urban ideology, a sprawl of individual residential and meta-commercial settlements. We focused our Urban Villa on the ambiguous reality of Commercity, connected and detached from the city itself and a global desire, between Rome and Fiumicino airport. Taking the scale-less of the anonymous logistic hall architecture as a starting point to confront the deficient privacy with an idea of communality, to turn the scale-less size into domestic generosity, and to create an incentive juxtaposition of nature and architecture and of dream and reality.
