08 URBAN INNVERSIONSTUDY ABROAD fall ‘22
Axon of the market and pavilion
Professor:
Andrew Kranis
For the end portion of my study abroad in Rome, Italy, the studio was tasked with creating some form of urban intervention along Via Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, a long street that links Vatican City to Campidoglio. I decided to produce a temporary and permanent market pavilion. The pavilion is located at the end of the Corso. The site I chose along this route was the intersection in front of the Chiesa del Gesù. This is an area where a tributary road cuts through the middle of the piazza, causing it to be spatially awkward. As a result, there are no comfortable zones in which an individual or group can settle, whether it be to figure out where they need to go or if they want to take a rest. As well as not having any spatial solace, the area has zero shade, causing it to become extremely hot, particularly during the summer.
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To mitigate this effect, the intervention I proposed would close this road and center a pavilion and marketplace within the space. The pavilion piece, inspired by the beams in Italian buildings (and by instance, like much of Kengo Kuma’s work), served as a way of taking up space without doing so directly. The shade fragments produced by the canopy would provide implicit edges around which people could gather, sit under, or layout tables. A cut was made in a section of the canopy that was facing the chiesa. This reduces the canopy’s obstruction of the chiesa. Below are two types of market systems. One is towards the street, which serves more as a pop-up space, and the other, farthest from the street, has more permanent stalls.
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