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Francesca Donatelli
Thesis in Architectural Design
Redevelopment of the former Snia Viscosa industrial area in Rome
Thesis by Francesca Donatelli
Email: frn.donatelli@gmail.com
Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia - Sapienza University of Rome
Degree in Architecture EU
Speaker: Prof. Laura Valeria Ferretti
Academic Year 2013 - 2014
Just a few hundred meters from Porta Maggiore, in a dense and completely built-up area, I discover a void: the former Snia Viscosa. In a neighborhood where there is never enough space to socialize, to move away from the chaos of traffic, an unplayed possibility arises.
From the street front, you can see the old buildings beyond the heavy surrounding wall, but inside the vegetation is massive, you can hear the birds singing and beyond the thick treetops you can glimpse a small lake.
It is the secret garden of Snia Viscosa.
The area is abandoned to itself, forgotten by its owners: a private individual for a portion and the municipality for the remaining part. The old factory complex also included the adjacent portion of land, the one that includes the Energy Park and the social center, in addition to the small nucleus of a few businesses in the narrow alley that winds through the middle of the park.
It is a place representative of the birth of the Prenestino Labicano neighborhood, a lively and colorful neighborhood that owes its connotation to the industries, such as Snia Viscosa, that first chose this territory to settle, decisively characterizing the neighborhood as a proletarian neighborhood. Today the workers have been replaced by students, but the popular spirit still lives in the streets of this first Roman suburb.
What remains of the Snia Viscosa is a monument to history.
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