STAZIONE TIBURTINA
Piazzale della Stazione Tiburtina
FIRST STATION
1939 Angiolo Mazzoni
Del Grande (1894/1979)
SECOND
STATION
Grand and
modern restructuring largely completed in 2012 by ABDR
Associates Architects directed by Paolo Desideri
The new
bold and remarkable structure is not yet fully used
It is the
second railway station in Rome and it is dedicated to Count Camillo Benso di
Cavour
SOME
FIGURES that give an idea of the magnitude of this station:
50,000 m²
(12.3 acres) of surface
4,000 m² (1
acre) of land for the primary services of the station
36,000 m²
(8.9 acres) of areas of secondary services, technical and connective
7,000 m²
(1.7 acres) of exterior glazing
10,000 m²
(2.5 acres) of commercial areas
140,000
visitors a day
1,100
parking spaces of which 430 covered
20 tracks
29 lifts
and hoists
52
escalators
“The
gallery, free minimum width of 10 meters, is characterized by the presence of suspended volumes (volumi sospesi, VOS) and is dotted with pillars
supporting the roof. The environmental comfort of the large space of the
gallery is guaranteed by the use of bioclimatic devices that, in addition to
reducing energy consumption and, therefore, operating costs, limit the use of a
system of forced ventilation and air conditioning. Microclimate thus obtained
will be characterized, consistent with its nature of space for passage, by an
attenuation of feeling hot or cold compared to the outside (...). The ‘volumes’
(VOS) suspended within the large gallery, characterize the space, building with
their reach toward the central area, those suggestions that are typical of a
public space, especially when this is both a railway station, a commercial
space, and a kind of urban street, able to connect two parts of the city”
(Official website of the Italian Railway www.rfi.it)
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Saturday, January 18, 2020
TERMINI TRAIN STATION
STAZIONE TERMINI
Piazza dei Cinquecento
FIRST STATION
1862/63 with the name Stazione Centrale delle Ferrovie Romane (Central Station of the Roman Railways)
In the sixteenth century in this area had been built the Villa Montalto-Peretti owned by Cardinal Felice Peretti, later Pope Sixtus V (1585/90)
The villa was later acquired by the Massimo family, who gave it to the Papal State just when the construction of the train station was being planned, and, as a result, the villa was demolished
The station was built in conjunction with the opening of the rail link from Rome first to Ceprano and later to Napoli
SECOND STATION
1868/74 by Salvatore Bianchi (1821/84) for a city of just 200,000 inhabitants
After switching to the Kingdom of Italy in 1870, the works suffered several interruptions and slowdowns
The decision was made to build a central station for Roma in this area, despite it would have had more sense to build a station for each line, such as Paris or London
The first two railway lines of the Papal States had in fact the last stops in the Porta Maggiore (the Rome-Frascati, 1856) and in Porta Portese (the Rome-Civitavecchia, 1859, later extended to Pisa). There were also existing projects for the Rome-Ceprano and Rome-Ancona
However, it was decisive the influence of the powerful Belgian Monsignor Francesco De Merode who had interests in the Termini area and in the current Via Nazionale, the street that him himself planned
The Master Plan of 1931 included two main stations in Rome: one in the north, on Campo Parioli where later the Olympic Village was built, and one in the south in the area of Casilino Mandrione. The two stations would have connected by a tunnel and Termini would have been a transit underground station
It was an idea that, with hindsight, was not so bad and would have avoided the huge wound of the railroad tracks that cuts the center of Rome
But then in 1936 it was decided to organize the Universal Exhibition and, with the new idea of developing Roma towards the sea, it was decided to have Termini as the only main station
THIRD STATION
Begun in 1938 with the sides longer than 2 km (1.2 miles) by Angiolo Mazzoni Del Grande (1894/1979)
“Angiolo Mazzoni Del Grande always tried new ways of expression, up to level of the heterogeneous language that defiled the rationalist lexicon with a rich materiality that Marinetti called futurist, but that demonstrates the need to meet the demands of the administration of which he was a dependent, in some circumstances, the result of mediation in situations of discord among its stakeholders, particularly complex and evident in the events related to the history of the important railway junctions of Florence, Rome and Venice” (Alessandra Capanna – Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
Front building
1947/50 designed by two groups of architects joint winners of the competition: the one of Leo Calini (1903/85) and Eugenio Montuori (1907/82) and that of Massimo Castellazzi (1901/77), Vasco Fadigati (1902/?), Achille Pintonello (1902/?) and Annibale Vitellozzi (1902/90)
The building is 53 m long (174 feet) and the huge CANTILEVER ROOF extends for 19 m (63 feet) to the outside with a bold technical solution. It is nicknamed the dinosaur
Bas-relief 1951 by the Hungarian artist Amerigo Tot (1909/84)
“The front building remains one of the most interesting works in the Italian post-war and it is a concrete testimony of the renewal effort that architectural culture had undertaken in those years” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
Termini Station was renovated in 2000 and a huge shopping mall was opened in the basement
It is the first train station in Italy and the second in Europe after the Gare du Nord in Paris for number of passengers
It has been figured out that every day about 480.000 people enter this train station, as mentioned on the official Stazione Termini web site
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS
The building is located on the former site of a popular quarter of the second century AD
The frescoes found during construction are now exposed on the top floor of the nearby archaeological museum of Palazzo Massimo
At the side of the front building and inside the station itself are visible sections of the ancient Servian Walls
Piazza dei Cinquecento
FIRST STATION
1862/63 with the name Stazione Centrale delle Ferrovie Romane (Central Station of the Roman Railways)
In the sixteenth century in this area had been built the Villa Montalto-Peretti owned by Cardinal Felice Peretti, later Pope Sixtus V (1585/90)
The villa was later acquired by the Massimo family, who gave it to the Papal State just when the construction of the train station was being planned, and, as a result, the villa was demolished
The station was built in conjunction with the opening of the rail link from Rome first to Ceprano and later to Napoli
SECOND STATION
1868/74 by Salvatore Bianchi (1821/84) for a city of just 200,000 inhabitants
After switching to the Kingdom of Italy in 1870, the works suffered several interruptions and slowdowns
The decision was made to build a central station for Roma in this area, despite it would have had more sense to build a station for each line, such as Paris or London
The first two railway lines of the Papal States had in fact the last stops in the Porta Maggiore (the Rome-Frascati, 1856) and in Porta Portese (the Rome-Civitavecchia, 1859, later extended to Pisa). There were also existing projects for the Rome-Ceprano and Rome-Ancona
However, it was decisive the influence of the powerful Belgian Monsignor Francesco De Merode who had interests in the Termini area and in the current Via Nazionale, the street that him himself planned
The Master Plan of 1931 included two main stations in Rome: one in the north, on Campo Parioli where later the Olympic Village was built, and one in the south in the area of Casilino Mandrione. The two stations would have connected by a tunnel and Termini would have been a transit underground station
It was an idea that, with hindsight, was not so bad and would have avoided the huge wound of the railroad tracks that cuts the center of Rome
But then in 1936 it was decided to organize the Universal Exhibition and, with the new idea of developing Roma towards the sea, it was decided to have Termini as the only main station
THIRD STATION
Begun in 1938 with the sides longer than 2 km (1.2 miles) by Angiolo Mazzoni Del Grande (1894/1979)
“Angiolo Mazzoni Del Grande always tried new ways of expression, up to level of the heterogeneous language that defiled the rationalist lexicon with a rich materiality that Marinetti called futurist, but that demonstrates the need to meet the demands of the administration of which he was a dependent, in some circumstances, the result of mediation in situations of discord among its stakeholders, particularly complex and evident in the events related to the history of the important railway junctions of Florence, Rome and Venice” (Alessandra Capanna – Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
Front building
1947/50 designed by two groups of architects joint winners of the competition: the one of Leo Calini (1903/85) and Eugenio Montuori (1907/82) and that of Massimo Castellazzi (1901/77), Vasco Fadigati (1902/?), Achille Pintonello (1902/?) and Annibale Vitellozzi (1902/90)
The building is 53 m long (174 feet) and the huge CANTILEVER ROOF extends for 19 m (63 feet) to the outside with a bold technical solution. It is nicknamed the dinosaur
Bas-relief 1951 by the Hungarian artist Amerigo Tot (1909/84)
“The front building remains one of the most interesting works in the Italian post-war and it is a concrete testimony of the renewal effort that architectural culture had undertaken in those years” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
Termini Station was renovated in 2000 and a huge shopping mall was opened in the basement
It is the first train station in Italy and the second in Europe after the Gare du Nord in Paris for number of passengers
It has been figured out that every day about 480.000 people enter this train station, as mentioned on the official Stazione Termini web site
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS
The building is located on the former site of a popular quarter of the second century AD
The frescoes found during construction are now exposed on the top floor of the nearby archaeological museum of Palazzo Massimo
At the side of the front building and inside the station itself are visible sections of the ancient Servian Walls
Friday, September 9, 2016
RECREATIONAL CLUB FOR RAILWAYS WORKERS
PALAZZO DEL DOPOLAVORO
FERROVIARIO
1925/29 Angiolo Mazzoni Del Grande (1894/1979)
and Efisio Vodret
External
decorations by Attilio Selva (1888/1970), Pietro Melandri (1885/1976) and Napoleone Martinuzzi (1892/1977)
Interior
decorations by Pietro Vigni and Pietro Melandri
It is
partly occupied by the TEATRO ITALIA active
with drama, opera and ballet
“Mazzoni was
considered a Futurist architect especially for his polychromy and his
'polimateria' as he used to describe a wide range of materials and colors used
for his accomplishments. (...) In fact, the experimentation and the variety of
figurative results that characterize the work of Mazzoni make it difficult to
reduce his language to a single common denominator. Proof of this is his
particular method adopted in the preparation and presentation of projects;
usually he would propose a series of solutions in different styles: classicist
for the regime, traditionalist required by the local administrations, modern
according to his personal sensitivity” (Alessandra Capanna - Dizionario Biografico degli
Italiani Treccani)
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