Yi Tao_ROME PROGRAM STUDIO FALL 2017

FINAL WORK PORTFOLIO

ARCH 5002 / 7005 Fall 2017 Professor Jeff Carney Student: Yi Tao

ARCH 5002 / 7005 Fall 2015 Professor Jeff Carney STUDENT NAME Yi Tao TIMELINE

ACQUA-STORIA

SURFACE WATER

753 B.C. Found of Rome

312 B.C. First Aqueduct

Rome was famous for its fresh water all the time. The built hydrologic infrastructures, the aqueducts, fountains and nasoni, fostered and prospered the eternal city. After thousands of years, some of them still are functioning nowadays. In Rome, the role water played changed from the daily supply for life to the privilege of power, to now a democracy and welfare of public life that every citizen and tourist can enjoy free. Nonetheless, in this past summer, along with the global warming and the water shortage, Rome went through a serious drought and had to turn off the fountains that ran for hundreds of years.

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The way people interacted with water in Rome had changed over the pasted nearly three thousand years. In nowadays, do people know what happened to the water system in Rome? Do they know what’s going on in contemporary? Do they know what will happen in the future? In the case that the historical hydrologic structures felt apart and the modern water system can’t fulfill the need of present, what will be the hydraulic future of Rome?

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The ambition of this project is to introduce visitors the experience relates to the characteristics and moments of the historical and contemporary water system in Rome. It attempts to inspire the re-thinking of the human interaction with the hydrology in the future of this eternal city.

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The building site locates at the middle of the park, which is one of the main entrances now. To get in the center part of the park, people need to go over the aqueduct. And four pathways stretch out from the other side of the aqueduct.

The existing pedestrian pattern would be preserved and a gathering space will be created at where the paths converge. The original structure of the aqueduct will be revealed by digging done the ground.

Instead of go over the aqueduct, people can cross the arches of the aqueduct to enter the welcoming space that surrounded by the three sections of the visitor center should. A grid system is implemented base on the aqueduct and the two major paths.

The idea to tell the story of water by a building with different levels is the main problem the design scheme encountered. Based on multiple concept plans, sections, and program analysis, a complex route is designed to connect different parts and levels.

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USE OF PRECEDENTS Trajan’s Market is an ancient Roman architecture that smoothly connected the different levels of the city.

The typological language of architecture, the experience of the space and the rough material it exposed are the characteristics the new visitor center of the aqueduct park should bring with.

The Jewish Museum Berlin was built based on three insights: it is impossible to understand the history of Berlin without understanding the enormous contributions made by its Jewish citizens; the meaning of the Holocaust must be integrated into the consciousness and memory of the city of Berlin; and, finally, for its future, the City of Berlin and the country of Germany must acknowledge the erasure of Jewish life in its history. The concept of this building was similar to the park visitor center. Thus the strategies Libeskind implemented in his building, the strong circulation with implicit meaning, and the depressed experience integrated with the form and space of the architecture, are the start point of the new building.

And the Hedmark Museum by Sverre Fehn is a built up project with a concrete route that connected the building and site. The concept is simple but very strong.

APPLIED RESEARCH

TIMELINE

The history of water in Rome is a dynamic changing complex. It was closely connected to the rise and fall of the city. At the very beginning, the Tiber River bred the Rome in 735 B.C. After the first aqueduct was built up 312 B.C., Romans erected numerous water facilities around the city. Whereas around 537 A.D., Rome was almost abandoned after the Gothic War, and the aqueducts were all out of function, which sieged the city in water shortage for about 1,000 years. People had to go back to the polluted Tiber River for water. This last until the Renaissance time, the Popes began to restore to aqueducts and the volume of water went into Rome city goes up. At the beginning of 19th century, the modern water system was implemented in Rome. The population of the city started to boom.

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This stream of water went up and down generates a route connects different parts of the building. The distance reflects the time. The elevation means the volume of water. It’s base on how low it’s from the existing aqueduct on site – the lower you are, the more water you get.

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And the three sources where people got water from, the Tiber River, Aqueducts and Modern Water System, will be applied to the three sections of the architecture that inhabit the characteristics of those three water delivery pattern. Tiber River is a linear center. Aqueducts are multiple canals that end in the fountains in the city and become public space. What’s more, the Modern Water System is a multilayer that water comes from different sources, the pipes follow the grid of the city to deliver the water to fountains, nasoni and private homes. Meanwhile, the different sources Romans choose to get water direct the landing point of the route in those three sections of the building.

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On the review, we discussed the complexity and complex of the design. The feedback I got was my project became too complicated that it was hard to explain it thoroughly. The design strategy I had was overlaying different layers of meanings on the building so that can solidify the abstract concept. But at the end, all these layers didn’t work together as an integrated project. Nonetheless, the other way to deal with the abstract concept was extracted a strong idea from the abstract concept at the beginning. Then develop different layers base on the ideal. So the design scheme will be complex rather than complexity.

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