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Design Approach

In keeping with Bramante’s signature serliana as ‘front façade’, it was imperative not only to avoid disrupting its visibility from the East but to enhance its perception. To this affect, a Reflecting Pool is created, geometry bound by the ruin edges, reflecting the majesty of the 3 serliana:













The Chamber of Sound is then carved out below the Reflecting Pool, an Oculus puncturing through the plane of water; resulting in an equal exchange of water flowing down and sound wafting up through the oculus in perpetuity.

The theater programming below grade preserves the ruin and above grade site for peaceful introspections. 

The visitor loses themselves along the Meandering Pathspanning East-West; gazing down in awe upon the Octagonal Pool, lounging in theLinear Pool(once the south corridor), swinging under the arches or just floating in the pool, at all time, a sparkling soprano wafting across the water from depths below.


1 Chamber of Sound + Oculus
2 Reflecting Pool
3 Meandering Path
4 Linear Pool
5 Water Line + Stair
6 Octagonal Pool
7 Serliana Swings
8 Support Space