Renzo Piano
Auditorium, Parco Della Musica
Parco Della Musica, Is not just a new auditorium for the city of Rome, but is a city for music. With three in door concert halls and one outdoor, all with varying size, seating, and acoustic properties, it surely is laid out like a city. With auditoriums, numerous practice and recording rooms, shops, restaurants and even a museum for a roman villa discovered and accommodated when construction first began. There is much to offer to the people of Rome and the surrounding suburban communities that Parco is built in the center of. With its three indoor auditoriums it seats 750, 1200, 2800 spectators, it is considered one of the largest concert halls in the world, especially when topped off with its central exterior amphitheater which is a tribute to Roman and Greek Influences. With it interesting curves and design it is a building that will draw interest form visitors, all around the world and not just for the music played in its halls. It is a center space for culture that fills an urban void in Rome.
Historical Refrences
Parco Della Musica seems like the Greek amphitheater has had an influence in its design. The layout of the indoor and especially the outdoor of the auditorium looks like a Greek amphitheater, they all have an auditorium and orchestra and a skene and are shaped in the half circle layout just like a Greek amphitheater would. From the visual similarities, one could assume that a Greek amphitheater had some influence.
It also has similarities to a Greek Agora (or market place). but instead of stoa’s, civic buildings, and libraries, there are auditoriums a museum and various shops and restaurants in and around Parco Della Musica. Renzo in some interviews talked about how he meant to lay out Parco Della Musica as a city would have been, with a center square and surrounded by shops restaurants, a museum, auditoriums etc. this is where he would have taken influence form a Greek Agora
Image 1: Parco Della Musica, Rome, Italy, Renzo Piano, 2001
Image 2: Theatre of Dionysus, Athens Greece, 354 B.C.E
Image 3: Greek Agora Plan
Contemporary Architect
The Megaron, and the Parco Della Musica are similar in that they both use similar materials specific to their area, the materials used allows them to blend into the area, like the lead roofs, and the red brick used in Parco are also used in most of the other buildings in Rome. While the marble and columned look of the Megaron in Athens, is similar to all the ancient, residential and civic buildings all around Athens, effectively giving it a look of the area.
Image 1:Parco Della Musica, Rome, Itally, By Renzo Piano
Image 2: Megaron, Athens Concert hall, Athens Greece, by Christopher Alexander
Sections, Elveations, Plans, Sketches, and more
Image 1: Section of Parco Della Musica, Auditotrium
Image 2: Sketch of Parco Della Musica, Auditorium
Image 3: Floor Plan of Parco Della Musica, Auditorium
Image 4: Elevation of Parco Della Musica, Complex
Image 5: Model of Parco Della Musica, Complex