The Internal Gallery | Location: Rome, Italy | Scale: 10000 SF | Time: 2004

The site is a strip of old housing settlement developed at the beginning of the 20th century near the station Numidio Quadrato on the metro line A of Rome. Being incoherent with the grid of the surrounding post-war neighborhood, the site is like an urban fence which causes circulation, parking, and abandoned public spaces problems. In order to respect the current residents and their properties, the project is a series of interventions linked by an “internal gallery” that reorganizes and transforms this old strip in a subtle way. Along this semi-public gallery, two new streets, a cinema complex, a public piazza, a neighborhood center, fountain pools and two underground parking garages are proposed to solve the problems and bring public recognition to this strip of pre-war neighborhood. The Internal Gallery is a new type of urban implementation that re-modifies the “old” for the new context.