TEAM:

Roberto Ferlito creative director

Alessandra Faticanti coordinator

Agita Putnina, main architect

Joanna Rodriguez Noyola, architect

Kazuyo Nishida, architect

Toby Nielson, architect

Rimesse in Gioco. 2010 Rome, Italy

Assigned Typology:    International Competition

Project:            Project design

Client:              Rome Municipality

Project phase:        Honorable Mention.

Date:            2010

International firm nabito architects received an honorable mention for their project of the Rimesse in gioco international compettition, located in the city of Rome, italy.

The design process aims to highlight the historical conceptual relationship between the Victories District and the areas covered by the competition, specifically the surroundings of Piazza Bainsizza.

This is an all-Roman relationship between full and empty spaces, and between intimate and public spaces.

Their interaction with green spaces and the spontaneous elaboration of romantic spaces.

Through the visual allusions of his film Roma, Federico Fellini captures some of the city's most significant characteristics. A particular combination of illusion and reality, generating a lyrical, oniric fusion. Rome, a city blended into its magic by its chameleonic and kaleidoscopic character.

Rome is therefore a 'romantic' city, unable to accept novelty. Nothing escapes Nuila in Rome.

Rome already has everything; it is already a contemporary city. Rome is just waiting to be discovered. Perhaps not by chance:The strategic motto is no longer growth and expansion, but transformation, which calls to mind an alchemical character possibly present in Rome, encrusted in its incredible stratification.Fortunately, this idea is also present in the notice regarding the reconversion of the Atac and Ater depots.One of the specific demands of the call for proposals becomes a profound design theme for us. The question ,what is the possible and existing relationship between fullness and emptiness.? becomes for us How to "build" an emptiness"?

The choice to work on the theme of emptiness, multiplying and densifying public spaces is dictated by two simple but precise reasons related to the anthropological and historical cultural character of the city.

The first is the great capacity of the population to appropriate an empty space, making it alive and useful, there is a continuous colonization and overlapping. Inhabitants ,whether lifelong or acquired, are able to live the city by "making do" giving a positive connotation to the fact.There is no need to design new public spaces but to seize the aspects of those that already exist, just find out where they are and bring them back to light. The "Romans" invent them.

The second is the desire to bring back to light the importance of the Lighthouse as an archetype of contemporary public space. Not only does ii fora constitute not only a square but the interactions between it and the buildings around , but also an ambiguous model with a strong but multiple identity.A space that was at once political social cultural sporting ,celebratory and religious and that today can continue to be so by adding complexity.