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01) NUOVO MUSEO DEL COLOSSEO AL CELIO Francesco Petrone
Architetto
type: Master’s Degree Project

site: Rome
year: 2018-2019
The Colosseum valley and the roman forum are one of the most important archeological sites
in the world still under-exploited. Hundreds of archeological remains from this area laid for al-
most a century in the adjacent Antiquarium on Celio hill. Today the area of antiquarium is inac-
cessible and without a function. Actually this building is very damaged because of the foun-
dation soil and the works for the construction of the metro station in the fascist period. This
Master’s Degree thesis attempts to design a new museum for Colosseum like Tschumi in Athens.
The project is focused on different lines of research: recovery, design and structural checking.
-Recovery of the Antonio Muñoz wall. This wall is an historical perspective axis that frames on Colos-
seum and Costantine Arch.

-Design of a new urban centrality that not only hosts permanentand temporary exhibitions and their re-
lated turists but also the citizens who want to live this area every day. (Auditorium, Restaurant, etc..)
-Structural checking by using the CSI SAP 2000 computing programme to ensure that the structure be
stress-resistant and keep the weight of the wall that we want to recover and reuse inside the museum.

Urban Strategies

Hypogeal Museum Privileged View

The Intermediate
Square
Three Square
System

Scattered Museum

System of the
Access

Pedestrianisation
of the area