Final design, executive project, management of works, restoration and functional recovery of Torlonia Theater, within Villa Torlonia in Rome.
The Torlonia Theater, the construction of which began in 1841 and was completed in 1874, is one of the buildings that make up the historical complex and the landscape of the Villa Torlonia, on Via Nomentana.
It was made, from scratch, at the behest of Prince Alessandro Torlonia in the first half of the nineteenth century in order to have a theater within the garden, by the architect Quintilian Raimondi (born in Nerola in 1794, was a pupil of R. Stern, was appointed Academic merit of the Academy of St. Luke (1839) and the Accademia dei Virtuosi del Pantheon).
The restoration project of functional recovery combines philological restoration of the original environment and decorative technological innovation of the exhibition spaces of the floor below the main floor, and in the lighting solutions, stagecraft and plants in general, specially designed to complement the existing buildings . The building has been restored to its original function as a "theater of the court" and, simultaneously, to the museum of himself with dedicated spaces for temporary exhibitions and / or permanent.This required a careful and respectful intervention plant for the temperature control and the air humidity relative to air in all environments nevertheless for fire prevention requirements. The recovery of the system of the greenhouses on the main facade and the new exhibition is enriched by a bookshop and a café allow a new use of the spaces which incorporates the original space. Particular attention was paid to the recovery of the system of greenhouses located in the main front in the South.
