Un nuovo paesaggio per la GRANDE VILLA ADRIANA - Concorso Internazionale per la progettazione della Buffer Zone UNESCO

The proposal for the GRANDE VILLA ADRIANA is a new territorial unit, whose ordering fulcrum is the archaeological site of the Villa Imperiale, that defines new identities among the different components of the area. Overcoming a constraining concept of planning, and with the aim of reunifying the Buffer Zones of the two UNESCO sites of Villa Adrianna and Villa d'Este, the project seeks the creation of a landscape composition that reconnects sites today destined to a merely touristic fruition to the socio-economic fabric of the area. This approach is extended to the adjoining areas, involving public and private actors for their proper development.

The masterplan is based on the geographical sequence of four elements: the archaeological area, the slope that extends between the villa and the Via Maremmana, the road itself and the Aniene river. There, the nature-artifice dialectic configures new forms of reinterpreting soil, vocations, necessity and innovation. A composition which combines building interventions with the landscape of a new “Garden-nature”, which offers to the visitor a visions recalling the Ciceronian idea of the countryside as a “Second nature”, in the spirit of an "Ancient ecology", where the exploitation of nature and the creation of landscapes influenced one another.

THE PARKWAY has its roots in the imaginary of the quarries known as Latomie. The accesses to interventions are placed in thick vegetation and the tectonic forms produced by the ground excavation and modeling, amplify and multiply the relationships with the surrounding environment.

THE HORTI HADRIANEI looks at the garden as a scenario. Hortus as a great structure, a garden-landscape to replace the conventional idea of park; a “well-nurtured garden" as a place with endless interpretations of the nature in the many Topias traced inside.

THE SPECTACULARIZATION OF ANIENE is a sequence path dedicated to the water, inspired by the "water pilgrimage" by C. Moore, and with the aim of valorize water resources.

THE MUSEUM AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL VILLAGE are two extensions of the existing Museum, where the phenomenal-spatial experiences are based on the communication ability of the archaeological material.