- Year 2006
- Location IT - Piazza Augusto Imperatore - Rome
- Client Comune di Roma - Dipartimento VI
- Program
Restauration of the ancient Augustu's Mausoleum, accessibility and new public venue. Requalification of the surrounding square, to become fully pedestrian.
- Dimensions
80 m exterior diameter
- Status Competition - 2nd Prize
- Design E. Garnaoui (in group association)
- Team
Elies Garnaoui (project leader)
Francis Soler Architecte
Sandro Benedetti (prof. arch. restorer, historian and conservator)
Antonino Gallo Curcio (prof. eng. restorer)
Heinz-Jürgen Beste (archeologist)
Werner Sobek (structure eng.)
Michel Desvigne (landscape)
- Cost 26.7 M €
- Renderings © artefactory
The « urban void » of Piazza Augusto Imperatore, caused by the '30s demolitions, has finally the opportunity to become a new space of social aggregation, characterized by the prevalence of the vegetation.
Without trying to create a small urban park, which could not rival the magnificent historic villas, and without creating an archaeological reservoir that would effectively prevent the construction of a real public square,
The new pine "pergola", leaves a large visual opening at pedestrian level and at the same time interprets the "silvae et ambulationes", described by Svetonius.
Perhaps a new chapter, this time reversible, can be added to the bi-millennial story of the remains of the monumental grave of the First Emperor: after being exploited, stripped and abused; after being abandoned and forgotten in a pit, the Mausoleum can be part of the city of the living people and regain that dignity that belong to him.
