Ludovica Di Falco - SCAPE Architecture, Susanna Nobili - SNA Architettura, Margherita Guccione - Direttore scientifico Grande MAXXI
Hangars, warehouses, archives, datacenters, garages, logistics platforms... compose an indefinite typological set, a kind of behind-the-scenes, traditionally associated with the dark face of cities and territories.
Effective places, but insensitive to their context and human presence.
Awareness of the environmental challenges, the impact of the pandemic on the perception of workplaces, individual needs with respect to a new balance between personal and professional life, are some of the factors that require today to redefine the settlement, use, and needs of these buildings and thus the role of architecture in their construction.
The design of the GREEN MAXXI, and more precisely, of the MAXXI HUB and the MAXXI GREEN, fits precisely into this vision.
A truly innovative operation, in which programmatic, functional, architectural and technical ambition converge to give life to a totally new, hybrid building, at once a place of culture, dissemination and preservation of knowledge, a place of pedagogy and openness to the public.
A true support and programmatic complement to the MAXXI Museum, the MAXXI Hub is a multifunctional building, composed of exhibition halls, laboratories, archives, and classrooms for training, which coexist around a large central void open to the sky. A new system of public spaces, MAXXI GREEN, will serve as a container for the buildings, and will culminate in the MAXXI HUB's roof garden, from which one's gaze embraces the exceptional landscape dedicated to modernity that is the bend of the Tiber River north of Rome.
Moderator Arianna Callocchia
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