Bologna-based Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) recently completed the new administrative headquarters, known as the Rectorate, of Roma Tre University. The building houses spaces for several university functions: the Aula Magna (or great hall), the “piazzatelematica” (the principal IT center of Roma Tre), offices, and other dedicated Rectorate areas. In line with the building projects of universities around the world—facing new challenges for representing, branding, and updating the ever-evolving role of higher education—the architecture embodies an innovative vision of the synergy among technology supporting sustainability, nature, and (thanks to the new public spaces that are an intrinsic part of the design) enhanced social life.
MCA’s composition—three tall cylinders over one covered and one open public plaza, connected to two additional levels containing classrooms and meeting rooms—is intentionally fragmented to “remove the institutional character,” according to Cucinella, in favor of a more open and accessible idea of education. The project is part of the broader urban-redevelopment program for the Ostiense-Marconi-Garbatella area, in the south of Rome, where the university aims to fulfill the dual role of making higher learning accessible and generating social and spatial urban encounters.
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