The small urban intervention by Amanzio Farris, BigMat National Prize France’19 winner, proposes a place for staying and enjoying the landscape made of concrete and stone.

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

The transformation of a tiny place at the top of an ancient village. An open space with tiny dimensions – quite like in inner spaces – living toghether with a large landscape view.

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person in Rome, Italy, by Amanzio Farris Architetto
BigMat National Prize Italy’19

Year: 2015
Location: Roma, Italy
Office: Amanzio Farris Architetto
Authors: Amanzio Farris, architect
Collaborators: Anna Rocchetta, architect
Leo Viola, light designer
Francesda De Felice, light designer
Type of work: Public
Photographs: Amanzio Farris

You can discover it – just when the walk through the village seems to end – jumping on the narrow steps of a ladder: reaching the top, the built elements and the landscape appear as a whole composition, in which the big and the little have ottically the same weight.

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

A lonely seat absorbs all the different directions of existing elements, and it’s shaped to lift the observer’s eyes over the edge of railing, to look without obstructions. The vertical stone – slightly rotated on the wall closet o it, to improve the visión of it from down – it’s the setting for the silhouette of the person that seats.

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

It’s an invitation – made of stone – for staying and for contemplation of landscape.

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris

Belvedere per una persona / View for just one person, 2015, Roma, Italy, Amanzio Farris Architetto © Amanzio Farris