Villa Maraini

Villa Maraini Roma2012

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Competition entry for the con­ver­sion of the Swiss Institute (an Artist in Residence Complex) in the Villa Maraini; work of the Swiss archi­tect Otto Maraini, broth­er of Emilio Maraini, a for­tuned indus­tri­al­ist from Lugano, known for hav­ing intro­duced with great suc­cess in Italy the pro­duc­tion of sug­ar from beet. The villa was built in 1903-05. The villa, which was donated in 1946 by the wid­ow of Maraini, Carolina Maraini Sommaruga to the Swiss Confederation, stands on an arti­fi­cial hill and is sur­moun­ted by a Belvedere Tower, which boasts a 360-degree view of Rome and its sur­round­ings. The build­ing draws on the tra­di­tion of Roman vil­las. The dec­or­a­tions of the build­ing con­sist of ori­gin­als and cop­ies of antique sculp­tures. The main idea was to con­nect under­neath the earth the base­ment of the Villa with the recently con­struc­ted res­id­ence /​work­shop-stu­dio build­ing situ­ated on the bor­der of the plot. References as the Boullé sug­ar-cake of Peter Greenaway, the Catacombs and Piranesi’s Carceri were very close while work­ing on the project.

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Title of the com­pet­i­tion entry: Barbabietola

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Barone Emilio Maraini with his wife and broth­er Otto, the archi­tect, who’s tak­ing the pic­ture, and the driver… on search for sugar… 

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Piranesi’s under­ground world.

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Babl Rome 14

Competition entry for the con­ver­sion of the Swiss Institute (an Artist in Residence Complex) in the Villa Maraini; work of the Swiss archi­tect Otto Maraini, broth­er of Emilio Maraini, a for­tuned indus­tri­al­ist from Lugano, known for hav­ing intro­duced with great suc­cess in Italy the pro­duc­tion of sug­ar from beet. The villa was built in 1903-05. The villa, which was donated in 1946 by the wid­ow of Maraini, Carolina Maraini Sommaruga to the Swiss Confederation, stands on an arti­fi­cial hill and is sur­moun­ted by a Belvedere Tower, which boasts a 360-degree view of Rome and its sur­round­ings. The build­ing draws on the tra­di­tion of Roman vil­las. The dec­or­a­tions of the build­ing con­sist of ori­gin­als and cop­ies of antique sculp­tures. The main idea was to con­nect under­neath the earth the base­ment of the Villa with the recently con­struc­ted res­id­ence /​work­shop-stu­dio build­ing situ­ated on the bor­der of the plot. References as the Boullé sug­ar-cake of Peter Greenaway, the Catacombs and Piranesi’s Carceri were very close while work­ing on the project.

Babl Rome 09
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Babl Rome 01
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Babl Rome 11
Babl Rome 07
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