Tourist Vortex

Located in Rome, Italy the project aims to resolve the issue of heavy traffic due to all the buses stopping along the site, and the difficulty for pedestrians to walk across the site, as the Via del Teatro Marcello creates a strongly perceivable division into two separate areas.

The intervention approach focuses on two aspects: (1) creating a bus station for a capability of 60 tourist buses thus taking them away from the street to free that zone and a smaller one which contains the 4 city bus stops that currently exist along the site; and (2) Re-connecting the two sides of the site through a series of “crosswalk moments” that also revitalize the area to that attract and entertain both locals and tourists.

In the same way there is this continuous flow in the site, the bus station and the circulation through it is equally continuous, with a permanent balance or transition between inside an outside space, so the station blends into the landscape and feels part of it.

The crosswalk moments are located in areas analyzed as being key moments where a lot of the main axes connect. They are intended to be a sort of stepped flow, allowing for program to exist on top of them (green areas, piazzas, restaurants) as well as beneath them (retail, urban market). 

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