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The Science Museum of Rome was born as a vision of cultural architecture that interprets the contemporary museum as a place of connection between knowledge, city and community, in which the educational path is intertwined with the experiential and playful.
In the urban context of Via Guido Reni – a strategic axis of the Flaminio district, dense with cultural institutions – the project imagines the museum as an open organism, capable of dialoguing with the city and its history. Here the memory of places is intertwined with a new perspective of urban transformation, where existing traces are welcomed and reinterpreted in a contemporary key.
The museum space thus takes shape as a landscape of knowledge: a system of architecture, paths and relationships that makes science a shared experience, projecting the heritage of the past into new possibilities for research, discovery and participation.
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Contemporaneity and memory of place
The project dialogues with the history of the site, reinterpreting pre-existing architectural elements and integrating them into a coherent contemporary organism. The historic barracks on Via Guido Reni become the basis for new exhibition rooms and immersive paths, transforming architectural stratification into a metaphor for scientific knowledge.
The architecture narrates a continuity between past and future, between urban memory and cultural innovation, enhancing the museum as a space of experience and an identity reference for the city. The facades vibrate with light thanks to a three-dimensional weave of glass tiles that composes an iridescent and deep surface. Natural light refracts and modulates there throughout the day, transforming the building envelope into a luminous diaphragm in continuous dialogue with the sky and the city.
Architecture as an immersive experience
The museum is conceived as an experiential system: the double-helix promenade, evocative of the structure of DNA, runs through the entire project creating a dynamic and continuous path. This element connects the different levels and exhibition rooms, defining a coherent spatial narrative between compression and openness, between emptiness and fullness.
Urban and social relations
The public space of the museum opens toward the Flaminio district and the MAXXI spaces, generating paths of direct connection with the city. The large covered square on Via Guido Reni becomes an urban access, a meeting space and a place for permanent relations, consolidating the museum’s function as a civic and social infrastructure.
Spatial and functional structure
The organization of the proposal combines solids and voids to create functional and flexible environments: permanent and temporary halls, reconfigurable modular environments, spaces for educational and research activities, and bioclimatic greenhouses with indoor gardens. The matrix structure, composed of reinforced concrete and steel, allows ample interior light and high spatial performance.
Integrated sustainability and impact
The proposal integrates environmental, social and economic sustainability strategies. The museum pursues near zero energy building (NZEB) standards and LEED Platinum certification goals, focusing on psycho-physical comfort, energy performance and space quality.
The project approach is supported by a social return on investment (SROI) impact assessment, with the goal of quantifying long-term benefits for communities and the local area.
