Museo dell’Anastilosi

The subject site, located in close proximity to the archaeological centre of Rome, is considerably underused and inaccessible for pedestrians. This project seeks to reconnect the site to its environs and provide new thoroughfares between contextual points; concurrently, the transformation incorporates a new museum experience based on the philosophy of continuous connectivity, featuring an active anastylosis. The visitor is immediately confronted by two representations of Rome in Antiquity upon coming through the museum doors; a model commissioned by Mussolini in 1933 at a scale of 1:250, sitting on the floor of the gallery, and a continuously growing anastylosis of the Severan Marble Plan from the 3rd Century at a scale of 1:240. The visitor moves along ramped porticoes that line the open space of the gallery and the research lab on the other side of the hung plan. Successively, the visitor passes through the main gallery, temporary exhibitions, bust gallery and paintings gallery in the existing villa.