The project for the Museum Ludus Magnus represents the mending and completion of a block of the historic city, a corner of enormous archaeological value, reduced to an urban void.
Following an urban planning study, on a larger scale, the intervention proposes the repetition of the urban fronts towards Via Labicana and San Giovanni in Laterano and reproducing a new scenic backdrop through the facade of the monumental architectural object.
The first objective of the intervention is to re-propose the underground connection between the height of the marble of the Colosseum and the archaeological level of the excavation. The upper walkway allows the path to reach the atrium and therefore the urban level.
Made by two simple rectangular elements placed side by side, the volume is generated, causing a splay, a volumetric compression, in such a way to obtain a regression between the two different volumes in proportional terms. Finally, on the facade, a triangular cut is engraved to mark the entrance, almost scenic, like a curtain inside the museum's "tunnel" structure.