INA CASA MAMMOLO BRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD

QUARTIERE INA-CASA PONTEMAMMOLO

Via Tiburtina km 9,2, Via Lanciano, Via Campotosto

1959/62 Giuseppe Vaccaro (1896/1970) designed the SOUTHERN AREA and Luigi Vagnetti (1915/80) the NORTH WEST AREA

It is situated between the Via Tiburtina and the Aniene River and it is inhabited by about 3000 people in 562 apartments

“It is distinguished by the peculiarity of the typological and architectural solutions adopted and the richness of the internal distribution of individual blocks. It constitutes a reference model for settlements with low population density” (Giorgio Muratore)

“He worked often in official commissions, and participated in the monumentality of the time by searching sometimes a futuristic interpretation, with elements in the language of Rationalism (Rome, Ministry of Corporations, today of Industry, Via Veneto, 1928/31, with Marcello Piacentini, Naples, Palazzo delle Poste, 1929/35, with Gino Franzi). His executive accuracy and the use of rationalist terms within a symmetrical architectural system (...) had considerable influence on Italian architecture” (Enciclopedia Treccani)

MAMMOLO BRIDGE

PONTE MAMMOLO

Via degli Alberini

Built in the Republican period so that the VIA TIBURTINA could pass the ANIENE RIVER

It was made in opus quadratum of travertine marble and tuff stone with two large arches, of which remains only part of the eastern span and the base of the pillar of the central one

Its original structure probably consisted of three arches with the central one larger

It was known as Mammolo since 1338 perhaps for having been attributed to Giulia Mammea, the mother of Septimius Severus (193/211), or more likely for a language contraction from marmoreus being the original in travertine

It was destroyed by the French in 1849

The NEW MAMMOLO BRIDGE further north was rebuilt in the years 1853/57 for Pius IX Mastai-Ferretti (1846/78) and restored in 1871