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Seven Studio Projects

Architecture & Landscape ArchitectureROME, 2011

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Outlines and profile edges were explored as an expressive drawing type early in the program. The rich slopes and edges of Cinque Terre and the sweeping brick landscape of Sienna challenged the students to consider the potential character of a line.

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Cerveteri

ManarolaShade and shadow were explored in Cerveteri, at the Maxxi Museum, and back around Rome. Students were challenged to consider light conditions, blending classic and modern Italy through the common condition of light.

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Diagram and Abstraction was explored as an analytical tool. Students explored, explained, and shared their observations and experiences of the spaces of Rome through diagrammatic analysis.

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Studio Projects

Jocelyn Reutebuch

Natalia Chetvernina

Sam Kraft

Adam Sharron

Chris Tritt

Monica Thompson

Tera Hatfield

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In Rome, one can often find a kind of polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water, though upon critical reflection, both are part of a single system. This project proposes to reconcile these different ways of interacting with water using a minimal insertion: a subtle topographical shift as well as the removal of temporary and restricting structures results in a large open exhibition space. Water, people and trash collected from the river are filtered across the site, their relationships rearranged and reframed.

museo del tevere: rivedere il gocciolamento

trickle filtration / exhibition space

crossing the cistern

embankment stairs / trash filters

entry / mostra fountain

pier seating

in the cut

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

site plan

transverse section A: pooling

transverse section B: spilling

Water from the Tiber will be pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into a settling cistern that will run along the entire length of the site. The water will then be pumped through a trickle filtration system, and released over the landscape. A cut into the embankment will allow people to experience the water as it is filtered back down to the river through the soil. The cut extends out into the river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the river.

The plan calls for the renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal Arsenale building, transforming it into offices, services for the museum and interior exhibition space. A smaller building will be stitched into the structure of the Arsenale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new structure will echo the scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will house trash rehabilitation activities.

An extensive planting of trees across the middle section of the site will aid in the filtration process, but also direct views toward the two significant prospects visible from the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine Hill to the east.

The soil at the extreme ends of the site will be higher at the street and river edges, allowing both the spilled river water and any runoff from the adjacent neighborhood to pool into the cistern. A protective metal mesh will sit just below the typical water level in the cistern.

The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

Alexandre ChemetoffWhite arkitekterSverre Fehn

In Rome, one can often find polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water. Still, both are part of a single system. This reconciles these different ways of interacting with water. Water from the Tiber is pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. After it flows through a cistern and a filtration system, the water is finally experienced as it is released back into the landscape, within the embankment cut.

Jocelyn Reutebuch

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In Rome, one can often find a kind of polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water, though upon critical reflection, both are part of a single system. This project proposes to reconcile these different ways of interacting with water using a minimal insertion: a subtle topographical shift as well as the removal of temporary and restricting structures results in a large open exhibition space. Water, people and trash collected from the river are filtered across the site, their relationships rearranged and reframed.

museo del tevere: rivedere il gocciolamento

trickle filtration / exhibition space

crossing the cistern

embankment stairs / trash filters

entry / mostra fountain

pier seating

in the cut

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

site plan

transverse section A: pooling

transverse section B: spilling

Water from the Tiber will be pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into a settling cistern that will run along the entire length of the site. The water will then be pumped through a trickle filtration system, and released over the landscape. A cut into the embankment will allow people to experience the water as it is filtered back down to the river through the soil. The cut extends out into the river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the river.

The plan calls for the renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal Arsenale building, transforming it into offices, services for the museum and interior exhibition space. A smaller building will be stitched into the structure of the Arsenale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new structure will echo the scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will house trash rehabilitation activities.

An extensive planting of trees across the middle section of the site will aid in the filtration process, but also direct views toward the two significant prospects visible from the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine Hill to the east.

The soil at the extreme ends of the site will be higher at the street and river edges, allowing both the spilled river water and any runoff from the adjacent neighborhood to pool into the cistern. A protective metal mesh will sit just below the typical water level in the cistern.

The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

Alexandre ChemetoffWhite arkitekterSverre Fehn

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In Rome, one can often find a kind of polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water, though upon critical reflection, both are part of a single system. This project proposes to reconcile these different ways of interacting with water using a minimal insertion: a subtle topographical shift as well as the removal of temporary and restricting structures results in a large open exhibition space. Water, people and trash collected from the river are filtered across the site, their relationships rearranged and reframed.

museo del tevere: rivedere il gocciolamento

trickle filtration / exhibition space

crossing the cistern

embankment stairs / trash filters

entry / mostra fountain

pier seating

in the cut

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

site plan

transverse section A: pooling

transverse section B: spilling

Water from the Tiber will be pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into a settling cistern that will run along the entire length of the site. The water will then be pumped through a trickle filtration system, and released over the landscape. A cut into the embankment will allow people to experience the water as it is filtered back down to the river through the soil. The cut extends out into the river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the river.

The plan calls for the renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal Arsenale building, transforming it into offices, services for the museum and interior exhibition space. A smaller building will be stitched into the structure of the Arsenale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new structure will echo the scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will house trash rehabilitation activities.

An extensive planting of trees across the middle section of the site will aid in the filtration process, but also direct views toward the two significant prospects visible from the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine Hill to the east.

The soil at the extreme ends of the site will be higher at the street and river edges, allowing both the spilled river water and any runoff from the adjacent neighborhood to pool into the cistern. A protective metal mesh will sit just below the typical water level in the cistern.

The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

Alexandre ChemetoffWhite arkitekterSverre Fehn

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In Rome, one can often find a kind of polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water, though upon critical reflection, both are part of a single system. This project proposes to reconcile these different ways of interacting with water using a minimal insertion: a subtle topographical shift as well as the removal of temporary and restricting structures results in a large open exhibition space. Water, people and trash collected from the river are filtered across the site, their relationships rearranged and reframed.

museo del tevere: rivedere il gocciolamento

trickle filtration / exhibition space

crossing the cistern

embankment stairs / trash filters

entry / mostra fountain

pier seating

in the cut

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

site plan

transverse section A: pooling

transverse section B: spilling

Water from the Tiber will be pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into a settling cistern that will run along the entire length of the site. The water will then be pumped through a trickle filtration system, and released over the landscape. A cut into the embankment will allow people to experience the water as it is filtered back down to the river through the soil. The cut extends out into the river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the river.

The plan calls for the renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal Arsenale building, transforming it into offices, services for the museum and interior exhibition space. A smaller building will be stitched into the structure of the Arsenale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new structure will echo the scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will house trash rehabilitation activities.

An extensive planting of trees across the middle section of the site will aid in the filtration process, but also direct views toward the two significant prospects visible from the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine Hill to the east.

The soil at the extreme ends of the site will be higher at the street and river edges, allowing both the spilled river water and any runoff from the adjacent neighborhood to pool into the cistern. A protective metal mesh will sit just below the typical water level in the cistern.

The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

Alexandre ChemetoffWhite arkitekterSverre Fehn

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In Rome, one can often find a kind of polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water, though upon critical reflection, both are part of a single system. This project proposes to reconcile these different ways of interacting with water using a minimal insertion: a subtle topographical shift as well as the removal of temporary and restricting structures results in a large open exhibition space. Water, people and trash collected from the river are filtered across the site, their relationships rearranged and reframed.

museo del tevere: rivedere il gocciolamento

trickle filtration / exhibition space

crossing the cistern

embankment stairs / trash filters

entry / mostra fountain

pier seating

in the cut

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

site plan

transverse section A: pooling

transverse section B: spilling

Water from the Tiber will be pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into a settling cistern that will run along the entire length of the site. The water will then be pumped through a trickle filtration system, and released over the landscape. A cut into the embankment will allow people to experience the water as it is filtered back down to the river through the soil. The cut extends out into the river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the river.

The plan calls for the renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal Arsenale building, transforming it into offices, services for the museum and interior exhibition space. A smaller building will be stitched into the structure of the Arsenale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new structure will echo the scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will house trash rehabilitation activities.

An extensive planting of trees across the middle section of the site will aid in the filtration process, but also direct views toward the two significant prospects visible from the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine Hill to the east.

The soil at the extreme ends of the site will be higher at the street and river edges, allowing both the spilled river water and any runoff from the adjacent neighborhood to pool into the cistern. A protective metal mesh will sit just below the typical water level in the cistern.

The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

Alexandre ChemetoffWhite arkitekterSverre Fehn

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In Rome, one can often find a kind of polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water, though upon critical reflection, both are part of a single system. This project proposes to reconcile these different ways of interacting with water using a minimal insertion: a subtle topographical shift as well as the removal of temporary and restricting structures results in a large open exhibition space. Water, people and trash collected from the river are filtered across the site, their relationships rearranged and reframed.

museo del tevere: rivedere il gocciolamento

trickle filtration / exhibition space

crossing the cistern

embankment stairs / trash filters

entry / mostra fountain

pier seating

in the cut

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

site plan

transverse section A: pooling

transverse section B: spilling

Water from the Tiber will be pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into a settling cistern that will run along the entire length of the site. The water will then be pumped through a trickle filtration system, and released over the landscape. A cut into the embankment will allow people to experience the water as it is filtered back down to the river through the soil. The cut extends out into the river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the river.

The plan calls for the renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal Arsenale building, transforming it into offices, services for the museum and interior exhibition space. A smaller building will be stitched into the structure of the Arsenale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new structure will echo the scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will house trash rehabilitation activities.

An extensive planting of trees across the middle section of the site will aid in the filtration process, but also direct views toward the two significant prospects visible from the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine Hill to the east.

The soil at the extreme ends of the site will be higher at the street and river edges, allowing both the spilled river water and any runoff from the adjacent neighborhood to pool into the cistern. A protective metal mesh will sit just below the typical water level in the cistern.

The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

Alexandre ChemetoffWhite arkitekterSverre Fehn

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pouring pouring pouring pouring pouring pouring

In Rome, one can often find a kind of polarization between pleasurable and practical uses of water, though upon critical reflection, both are part of a single system. This project proposes to reconcile these different ways of interacting with water using a minimal insertion: a subtle topographical shift as well as the removal of temporary and restricting structures results in a large open exhibition space. Water, people and trash collected from the river are filtered across the site, their relationships rearranged and reframed.

museo del tevere: rivedere il gocciolamento

trickle filtration / exhibition space

crossing the cistern

embankment stairs / trash filters

entry / mostra fountain

pier seating

in the cut

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

0’ 25’ 50’ 100’ 150’ 250’

site plan

transverse section A: pooling

transverse section B: spilling

Water from the Tiber will be pumped up along a former fortification, and released into a ‘mostra’ or exhibition fountain. This water will spill over into a settling cistern that will run along the entire length of the site. The water will then be pumped through a trickle filtration system, and released over the landscape. A cut into the embankment will allow people to experience the water as it is filtered back down to the river through the soil. The cut extends out into the river with mesh walls that will collect trash from the river.

The plan calls for the renovation of the workshop associated with the Papal Arsenale building, transforming it into offices, services for the museum and interior exhibition space. A smaller building will be stitched into the structure of the Arsenale building, reframing and reinforcing it. This new structure will echo the scale of the adjacent workshop building, and will house trash rehabilitation activities.

An extensive planting of trees across the middle section of the site will aid in the filtration process, but also direct views toward the two significant prospects visible from the site: Testaccio to the southwest and the Aventine Hill to the east.

The soil at the extreme ends of the site will be higher at the street and river edges, allowing both the spilled river water and any runoff from the adjacent neighborhood to pool into the cistern. A protective metal mesh will sit just below the typical water level in the cistern.

The soil in the middle section of the site will gently slope downward toward the embankment. Water from the gravel trickle beds will be spilled across the soil and then drain through this slower, larger filtration system. Extensive tree plantings will keep the saturated soils in place.

Alexandre ChemetoffWhite arkitekterSverre Fehn

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Adam Sharron

In an attempt to return agriculture to modern Rome, an intensive urban farm is installed. Greenhouses provide shade for crops in summer and protection in winter - an ideal growing environment year-round. Poultry and rabbits generate compost and protein. Produce and meat are consumed at an on-site restaurant. Tourist boats, re-purposed as water-borne greenhouses, add mobility and are used for product transport and demonstration.t

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Flows and PoolsMuseo del Tevere

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Sam Kraft

Flows and PoolsMuseo del Tevere

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Flows and Pools: This student’s statement will be supplied at a later date.

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Flows and PoolsMuseo del Tevere

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Flows and PoolsMuseo del Tevere

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Chris Tritt

Reintroducing people to the Tiber river revolves around reintroducing industry to the Tiber. With the already-defined industry of music in Rome, the site is used to bring people together in a public space. A new Museum of Music, a recording studio, practice spaces, performance spaces, and a music market frame and activate this new Roman piazza; the only one bordering the river.

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Monica Thompson

A landscape that operates ecologically as well as didactically explores a new paradigm for Roman perception of the Tiber. Through a public walk and an Ecological Learning Center, the community can redefine it’s relationship to the river, while improving it’s own welfare and development.

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COLLECT://HOLD DAY 1

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

:// DATA POOLS LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALEPools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUSDATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome.

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

FILTER://BREAKDOWN DAY 2-3

PRECEDENTS Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

A2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of

Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections).

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DECODING THE TIBERan urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

Decoder Ring

TIBER DECODER

WHATS IN YOUR WATER

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://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM Connect the dots downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

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UTILITY PATH LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

COLABVIA PORTUENESE

*TERA HATFIELD_LA_ROME2011

SEASONAL VOIDWinter: H20 StorageSummer: Path & Seating

PATH FILTERROCK DRAIN

SUNKEN LAWN DATA POOLS VIEW PATH

SEEDBANK Propogation tactics used to plant vacant lots and strenghten streambank

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COLLECT://HOLD DAY 1

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

:// DATA POOLS LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALEPools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUSDATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome.

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

FILTER://BREAKDOWN DAY 2-3

PRECEDENTS Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

A2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of

Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections).

Stormwater

Data from up + downstream

DECODING THE TIBERan urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

Decoder Ring

TIBER DECODER

WHATS IN YOUR WATER

Testing Sites, 123

Report an Incident

Connect:// CoLAB Tweets

Decoder Installations

SEED://INFORMATION DAY 4

1.

a.b.

c.

d.

2. 3.

4.

Stormwater Collection*Urban VII Wall+ Ponte Sublicio

+

*

:// DATA POOLS: Pool colors are linked to H20 quality at testing sites along the Tiber, changing temporally based on the health of the river.

1.ArsenaleInstallationsResearch model2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

:// SOFT Infrastructurea.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbankd.Biohaven Test Islands

LAB Circulation;x.Seating, y.Kayak Launchz.Lookout Arm

Stormwater + Tiber Circulationu.Cisternv.Wall Insertion/Slicew.Lookout Extension

u.

x.

y.z.

v.

w.

Testing, 123

://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM Connect the dots downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

://CHOOSE YOUR SATELLITE Connecting...

UTILITY PATH LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

COLABVIA PORTUENESE

*TERA HATFIELD_LA_ROME2011

SEASONAL VOIDWinter: H20 StorageSummer: Path & Seating

PATH FILTERROCK DRAIN

SUNKEN LAWN DATA POOLS VIEW PATH

SEEDBANK Propogation tactics used to plant vacant lots and strenghten streambank

250’150’100’50’25’0’

site plan_DECODING THE TIBERN

40’20’10’0’

section_DECODING THE TIBER

N

Environmental data on the Tiber River is lacking. Like the Tiber, the proposed site is lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people. ‘Decoding the Tiber’ proposes an urban river research center to investigate uncertain Tiber ecologies.The site allows a working and observed landscape, visualizing data disseminating knowledge.

COLLECT://HOLD DAY 1

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

:// DATA POOLS LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALEPools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUSDATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome.

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

FILTER://BREAKDOWN DAY 2-3

PRECEDENTS Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

A2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of

Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections).

Stormwater

Data from up + downstream

DECODING THE TIBERan urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

Decoder Ring

TIBER DECODER

WHATS IN YOUR WATER

Testing Sites, 123

Report an Incident

Connect:// CoLAB Tweets

Decoder Installations

SEED://INFORMATION DAY 4

1.

a.b.

c.

d.

2. 3.

4.

Stormwater Collection*Urban VII Wall+ Ponte Sublicio

+

*

:// DATA POOLS: Pool colors are linked to H20 quality at testing sites along the Tiber, changing temporally based on the health of the river.

1.ArsenaleInstallationsResearch model2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

:// SOFT Infrastructurea.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbankd.Biohaven Test Islands

LAB Circulation;x.Seating, y.Kayak Launchz.Lookout Arm

Stormwater + Tiber Circulationu.Cisternv.Wall Insertion/Slicew.Lookout Extension

u.

x.

y.z.

v.

w.

Testing, 123

://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM Connect the dots downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

://CHOOSE YOUR SATELLITE Connecting...

UTILITY PATH LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

COLABVIA PORTUENESE

*TERA HATFIELD_LA_ROME2011

SEASONAL VOIDWinter: H20 StorageSummer: Path & Seating

PATH FILTERROCK DRAIN

SUNKEN LAWN DATA POOLS VIEW PATH

SEEDBANK Propogation tactics used to plant vacant lots and strenghten streambank

250’150’100’50’25’0’

site plan_DECODING THE TIBERN

40’20’10’0’

section_DECODING THE TIBER

N

COLLECT://HOLD DAY 1

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

:// DATA POOLS LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALEPools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUSDATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome.

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

FILTER://BREAKDOWN DAY 2-3

PRECEDENTS Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

A2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of

Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections).

Stormwater

Data from up + downstream

DECODING THE TIBERan urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

Decoder Ring

TIBER DECODER

WHATS IN YOUR WATER

Testing Sites, 123

Report an Incident

Connect:// CoLAB Tweets

Decoder Installations

SEED://INFORMATION DAY 4

1.

a.b.

c.

d.

2. 3.

4.

Stormwater Collection*Urban VII Wall+ Ponte Sublicio

+

*

:// DATA POOLS: Pool colors are linked to H20 quality at testing sites along the Tiber, changing temporally based on the health of the river.

1.ArsenaleInstallationsResearch model2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

:// SOFT Infrastructurea.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbankd.Biohaven Test Islands

LAB Circulation;x.Seating, y.Kayak Launchz.Lookout Arm

Stormwater + Tiber Circulationu.Cisternv.Wall Insertion/Slicew.Lookout Extension

u.

x.

y.z.

v.

w.

Testing, 123

://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM Connect the dots downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

://CHOOSE YOUR SATELLITE Connecting...

UTILITY PATH LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

COLABVIA PORTUENESE

*TERA HATFIELD_LA_ROME2011

SEASONAL VOIDWinter: H20 StorageSummer: Path & Seating

PATH FILTERROCK DRAIN

SUNKEN LAWN DATA POOLS VIEW PATH

SEEDBANK Propogation tactics used to plant vacant lots and strenghten streambank

250’150’100’50’25’0’

site plan_DECODING THE TIBERN

40’20’10’0’

section_DECODING THE TIBER

N

24

COLLECT://HOLD DAY 1

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

:// DATA POOLS LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALEPools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUSDATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome.

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

FILTER://BREAKDOWN DAY 2-3

PRECEDENTS Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

A2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of

Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections).

Stormwater

Data from up + downstream

DECODING THE TIBERan urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

Decoder Ring

TIBER DECODER

WHATS IN YOUR WATER

Testing Sites, 123

Report an Incident

Connect:// CoLAB Tweets

Decoder Installations

SEED://INFORMATION DAY 4

1.

a.b.

c.

d.

2. 3.

4.

Stormwater Collection*Urban VII Wall+ Ponte Sublicio

+

*

:// DATA POOLS: Pool colors are linked to H20 quality at testing sites along the Tiber, changing temporally based on the health of the river.

1.ArsenaleInstallationsResearch model2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

:// SOFT Infrastructurea.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbankd.Biohaven Test Islands

LAB Circulation;x.Seating, y.Kayak Launchz.Lookout Arm

Stormwater + Tiber Circulationu.Cisternv.Wall Insertion/Slicew.Lookout Extension

u.

x.

y.z.

v.

w.

Testing, 123

://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM Connect the dots downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

://CHOOSE YOUR SATELLITE Connecting...

UTILITY PATH LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

COLABVIA PORTUENESE

*TERA HATFIELD_LA_ROME2011

SEASONAL VOIDWinter: H20 StorageSummer: Path & Seating

PATH FILTERROCK DRAIN

SUNKEN LAWN DATA POOLS VIEW PATH

SEEDBANK Propogation tactics used to plant vacant lots and strenghten streambank

250’150’100’50’25’0’

site plan_DECODING THE TIBERN

40’20’10’0’

section_DECODING THE TIBER

N

COLLECT://HOLD DAY 1

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

:// DATA POOLS LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALEPools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUSDATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome.

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

FILTER://BREAKDOWN DAY 2-3

PRECEDENTS Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

A2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of

Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections).

Stormwater

Data from up + downstream

DECODING THE TIBERan urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

Decoder Ring

TIBER DECODER

WHATS IN YOUR WATER

Testing Sites, 123

Report an Incident

Connect:// CoLAB Tweets

Decoder Installations

SEED://INFORMATION DAY 4

1.

a.b.

c.

d.

2. 3.

4.

Stormwater Collection*Urban VII Wall+ Ponte Sublicio

+

*

:// DATA POOLS: Pool colors are linked to H20 quality at testing sites along the Tiber, changing temporally based on the health of the river.

1.ArsenaleInstallationsResearch model2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

:// SOFT Infrastructurea.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbankd.Biohaven Test Islands

LAB Circulation;x.Seating, y.Kayak Launchz.Lookout Arm

Stormwater + Tiber Circulationu.Cisternv.Wall Insertion/Slicew.Lookout Extension

u.

x.

y.z.

v.

w.

Testing, 123

://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM Connect the dots downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

://CHOOSE YOUR SATELLITE Connecting...

UTILITY PATH LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

COLABVIA PORTUENESE

*TERA HATFIELD_LA_ROME2011

SEASONAL VOIDWinter: H20 StorageSummer: Path & Seating

PATH FILTERROCK DRAIN

SUNKEN LAWN DATA POOLS VIEW PATH

SEEDBANK Propogation tactics used to plant vacant lots and strenghten streambank

250’150’100’50’25’0’

site plan_DECODING THE TIBERN

40’20’10’0’

section_DECODING THE TIBER

N

COLLECT://HOLD DAY 1

://SLICE IN THE WALL RIVER WATER IS RECYCLED FOR TESTING AND WATERING OF ADJACENT SEEDBANK, 5YR FLOOD MARK INDICATOR

:// DATA POOLS LOOKING SOUTH TO ARSENALEPools reflect toxicity testing results from up & down stream along the Tiber’s sickly edge. Pool colors are thus mutable & temporal, changing seasonally, monthly and perhaps daily.

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING DATA: “Connect people with what? The rats?” The Tiber is uncertain, unknown, & undesirable. “Sampling at the Tiber’s mouth found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted.”

DECODED: The trajectory for active physical exploration of the Tiber by Romans is a ways off. For now, the dots between upstream and downstream are connected digitally. A playful platform to forecast and receive real-time information regarding conditions of bike/runnning paths, testing sites, avian habitats, art installations and water quality. Illegal sewage discharge and outflows after heavy rains are broadcasted. Users have the ability to map their own intersections and investigations of the Tiber, graphically connecting users to their contextual surroundings.

SEEDING THE CITY: CIRCUS MAXIMUSDATA: Italy is the 13th most hardscaped country in the world with over 487,700 km of paved road networks. Urban stormwater runoff is a major pollutant of the Tiber. The Urban Architecture Project identified over 60 vacant lots in and around Rome.

DECODED: Partner with local munipalities/organizations to strengthen key stream bank areas. The Research Center’s seedbank project constructs soft urban landing locations in derilict hardscaped lots in and around Rome. Circus Maximus is a currently underutilized & neglected landscape, and thus would be an ideal test candidate for transfering propogated seeds from the Research Center’s seedbank. Results: stormwater filtration, habitat, recreation.

:// TERRACE & KAYAK LAUNCH DOWNSTREAM TO LOOKOUT ARM

FILTER://BREAKDOWN DAY 2-3

PRECEDENTS Paisajes Emergentes & Olafur Eliasson

A2008 study by environmental group Legambiente sampled the Tiber River mouth and found that only 22.5% of seawater was not polluted. Other than general reports, environmental data on the Tiber River is significantly lacking. What we do know from scattered reports is that the quality of the river’s water decreases remarkably after its confluence with its main tributary, the Aniene river, in the city of

Rome. This is due in part to polluted urban stormwater runoff and illegal sewage overflow from Rome’s basalt and asphalt hardened streets as well as the city (and the country’s) noncompliance with the European Union’s 1991 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. In addition and much like the Tiber itself, the proposed site is heavily bounded by wall and water, lacking in transparency and largely neglected by people.

In response, Decoding the Tiber proposes an urban river research center to investigate the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber—a place for researchers and artists from all over Rome and Europe to connect on site in the lab and on the water in order to radically engage the river and its urban narrative. The design focuses on how the site may serve both as a projection and forcast of larger processes and sites working up and down river. The design scheme proposes a process of decoding, where flows of polluted water, data, and human circulation are collected, filtered and seeded. These flows are intentionally overlapped and work together on site to create a working and observed landscape. The design deploys open landscape constructs with its “seeding the city” platforms (physically softening hardened vacant lots throughout the city, visualizing data and disseminating knowledge in artful and curious ways via on-site physical displays of water and off-site digital projections).

Stormwater

Data from up + downstream

DECODING THE TIBERan urban river research center investigating the uncertain ecologies of the Tiber

Decoder Ring

TIBER DECODER

WHATS IN YOUR WATER

Testing Sites, 123

Report an Incident

Connect:// CoLAB Tweets

Decoder Installations

SEED://INFORMATION DAY 4

1.

a.b.

c.

d.

2. 3.

4.

Stormwater Collection*Urban VII Wall+ Ponte Sublicio

+

*

:// DATA POOLS: Pool colors are linked to H20 quality at testing sites along the Tiber, changing temporally based on the health of the river.

1.ArsenaleInstallationsResearch model2.CoLAB 3. Equipment Haus4.Seasonal Kayak Rental & Roof Bar

:// SOFT Infrastructurea.Filtration, b.Lab Lawn, c.Seedbankd.Biohaven Test Islands

LAB Circulation;x.Seating, y.Kayak Launchz.Lookout Arm

Stormwater + Tiber Circulationu.Cisternv.Wall Insertion/Slicew.Lookout Extension

u.

x.

y.z.

v.

w.

Testing, 123

://CORDOBA DAM 3:00 PM Connect the dots downstream

SEEDING THE CITY: TIBER DECODER RING

://CHOOSE YOUR SATELLITE Connecting...

UTILITY PATH LUNGOTEVERE PORTUENESE

BIOHAVEN TEST ISLANDS

COLABVIA PORTUENESE

*TERA HATFIELD_LA_ROME2011

SEASONAL VOIDWinter: H20 StorageSummer: Path & Seating

PATH FILTERROCK DRAIN

SUNKEN LAWN DATA POOLS VIEW PATH

SEEDBANK Propogation tactics used to plant vacant lots and strenghten streambank

250’150’100’50’25’0’

site plan_DECODING THE TIBERN

40’20’10’0’

section_DECODING THE TIBER

N

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