TIBERMILL

4th Year Study Abroad Semester | Flaminio District, Rome, Italy
University of Arkansas Rome Center | Spring 2020
Professor Andrew Kranis
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TIBERMILL, inspired by the push of the river’s currents and generative power, aims to create a new experience of the waterscape that shaped the city of Rome. This rotating Restaurant and Bar, powered by the current by water mills, provides a 360-degree view featuring the Flaminio and Prati neighborhoods, and serves local Roman culinary using fresh ingredients from the urban farm upstream. The bridge attaches from the restaurant to the existing Trident street layout by extending Viale Pinturicchio, Also providing space for a weekly neighborhood farmer’s market to occur. TIBERMILL not only becomes a powerful new architecture in Rome, but also engages the local community of the Flaminio district.

This semester has been a roller coaster. In early March of 2020 I was drastically sent home from my semester abroad in Rome due to the situation of Coronavirus. A month lost because of uncertainty and adapting to a new learning style. While the wrap of the semester was spent in front of computer screens back in the United States, the push for studio was remarkable despite the circumstances.