Advisor: Andrew Zago

The following project is a proposal for an urban development and science center in the North district of Rome. Situated across from Zaha Hadid's MAXXI Museum - the brief called for the development of approximately 500 housing units and a 27, 000 square meter science center. The urban development was created from folding a set of bars along a series of predefined axes relating the science center to the surrounding neighborhoods. Simultaneous to this urban idea, a series of formal studies were conducted to develop the massing for the project. Building on the idea of folding, a block was selected from the Nolli Map of Rome and contorted as a response to the MAXXI across the street.