Campidoglio 2 – Citizens’ Hall

Rome, Italy

Campidoglio 2 – Citizens’ Hall
Rome, Italy
2007

program: Preliminary design for the new seat of Municipality of Rome, near the railway station of Roma Ostiense
> built area: 142 000 m2
> floor area: 37 043 m2
> offices: 80 050 m2
> services: 2 800 m2
> archives: 20 000 m2
> parcking: 75 626 m2
> green areas: 10 791 m2
> squares and pedestrian areas: 7 902 m2
> streets: 35 874 m2
client: Comune di Roma
project: Alfonso Femia * with Rudy Ricciotti, Ricci & Spaini, Annalaura Spalla
landscape: Proap Ida
services and structural engineering: AI Engineering, AI Studio, 3TI Progetti Italia
roads and infrastructures: Stefano Migliaro
safety and building yard advisor: Studio Russo
images: Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Attu Studio
“The look, the steps, the light and the colours, the smell and the shade, the rain and the sun, everything is becoming park, in a space that becomes an articulated unicum, where the new buildings are either limit and background, or isolated and central, either monolithic or extraverted.
La Casa dei Cittadini is a park standing at the centre.
La Casa dei Cittadini is a new place specific to Rome.” AF
The park in the centre
Does the contemporary project still know how to be founding in the city?
Does the city manage to dialogue with the meaning and values of its territory?
We must refuse the temptation of creating a sequence of architecture “rich” in languages and styles but focused on itself and look for the construction of a place through the arms of heart and reason, the park, across the buildings. This is our duty.
The project becomes the citizen, with his movements either fast or slow, either of mass or solitary, either careful or distracted, either serious or amused.
The look, the steps, the light and the colours, the smell and the shade, the rain and the sun, everything is becoming park, in a space that becomes an articulated unicum, where the new buildings are either limit and background, or isolated and central, either monolithic or extraverted.
La Casa dei Cittadini is a park standing at the centre.
La Casa dei Cittadini is a new place specific to Rome.