Rome

Maxxi

We visited Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI to see an exhibition on Gio Pointi, which enjoyed a lot. The MAXXI surprised me, and i liked it more than i expected. Particularly the Staircases.

The staging project saw us begin to flesh out our individual responses to the site and brief. For my own work, this meant analysing the site in greater depth, researching around its key issues, and beginning to develop an architectural response. Primarily, staging helped me clarify the key issues my intervention would try to solve. Namely the relationship between Tourists and Parisians on the Ile de la Cite and the way these two groups interact with one another and use the island. Staging was also where I began to develop how my design might interact with Notre Dame and the historical context of the Ile de la Cite, looking specifically at our relationship with historical architecture.