Back to list CITY OF ROME,(Cultural equipment) MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy, 2001 Construction of the Museum of contemporary art in Rome on the former brewery site. Exhibition spaces, artworks storage, conference room, library, restaurants Competition (Prize winner) SENSUOUS TERRITORIES Inserted into the complexity of an ancient industrial estate and confronted to a historical patrimony, the new Museum is resonating to the existing static condition of the site with dynamism, movement and evidence. In the architectural work the section reveals the non-visible. In the Museum the section is shown through the translation from horizontal to vertical, from inside to outside, from the foyer to the roof-landscape-garden. The old and the new, the exhibition spaces and the other activities connected with it are at the same time articulated and specifically distincts. In the system of transition in which the new contaminates all around, every part wins a complex clarity and becomes attractive. The roof surface is a landscape. It is a projection surface of the art trail below. It creates an abstract continuity. It’s an abstract art garden. This landscape terrace is offered to the visitors of the Museum and to the city. It offers multiples textures under the feet of the visitors: roughness, deepness, smooth, softness, density, brightness, matness…The central volume of running water is there for refreshing the air. Sand, gravels, smooth limestone, bright surface of water, gramineous… the landscape terrace becomes a place of calm, freshness and sensual textures. The exhibition room, by its nature and the courses and flux introduced inside is a landscape. The all Museum is as a runing space, from the public space to the private space to the public space in a continuous fluidity. In opposition with the dynamism of the spaces around, the exhibition spaces are perceived as more neutral. They are developped in a non regular, but simple, space given to the artists, offered to multiple ways to exhibit : hanging, suspending, floating, on/in the floor… 12 000 m2, 22 M€ Public Opening Fall 2010     type Urbanism and infrastructureUrban planningTechnical equipment, art structureTechnical equipment and public facilitySports equipmentScenographyResidential, commercialPublic EquipementPublic administrationPublicPrivate, residentialPrivate, CommercialPrivate administrative buildingsOfficesNew housing, developmentNew housing and commercialNew housingInterior design, privateInstallationInfrastructureIndustrial buildingsHousing, publicHousing, privateeducational buildingDevelopment / DesignDesignCultural equipmentCommercial establishingCommercial and residencialCommercial and CulturalCommercialClub for firm staff     date 20102009200820072006200520042003200220012000199919981997199619951994199319911989     country USAUnited StatesTurkeyThe NetherlandsSwitzerlandQatarPolandMoroccoLuxemburgItalyFranceChinaBelgiumAustria