3.12.2006

The Serpent

I haven't been blogging lately and it's this building's fault.



It is called the Corviale. It is also called many other things like the serpent, the starship, etc.

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One kilometer long, it is an Italian experiment in public housing.



Any experiment is not foolproof against unexpected results. Since it is so large, it is kind of difficult to maintain, and people don't feel secure with its long hallways and large open spaces around it. It also feels quite isolated from the rest of Rome. The city seems to have given it a wide berth having grown right past its location in the periphery.

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So how do you dock a starship into a city that doesn't have a proper port? In some ways that is my approach to this exercise, though things really aren't that simple.