representation of the eternal city
project description found here
The Campidoglio continues to be one of the more peculiar places in Rome. It has consistently been built upon since the Imperial Roman Empire and through the Holy Roman Catholic Empire. What is now the City Hall, Palazzo Senatorio holds evidence of that within each layer of it’s palimpsest like construction. It was once the center of the world, the most important of all seven hills in Rome. It is one of Michelangelo’s greatest designs, but still hold parts of it’s extensive history. It is complex and peculiar. It is symmetrical, but at the same time not. It has 12 different ways of accessing the piazza, yet only one is predominantly used. The project designed for this sight is proposed as a series of interjections to bring attention to the wonderful oddities that make up the Campidoglio. These interjections unfold from one to the other, affecting and framing the movement through the piazza, opening up and uncovering the splendor that already existed.