CIVIC SKIN / Architecture Library, Rome

This project reimagines an abandoned industrial warehouse in the heart of Rome as a civic threshold between learning, making, and gathering. The existing structure becomes the ground for a new infrastructural skin, layered with a library, students’ laboratories, and collective spaces.

Rather than erasing, the intervention listens to what is already there—the texture of the walls, the void of the courtyard, the memory of industrial labor. A light steel structure overlays the old shell, holding programs that can shift, expand, and contract with use.

The project works as an urban interface, filtering movement between street and campus, interior and exterior, individual and collective time. It explores the architectural skin not as enclosure but as mediating infrastructure, porous and temporal.

Its sensibility resonates with my current research: infrastructures as living membranes, civic architectures as shared terrains of negotiation, learning, and care.