Ruiz Barbarin Arquitectos

The reading of the ruins of the Villa Adriana invites to discern between built and excavated, between material invaded and evicted. It is the space of experience, perception unregulated by the intellect, and thus it becomes more intuitive and sensory. In architecture, light emerges as the most precious asset, light shapes, qualifies and assesses the physical fact of the excavation, providing its result: a strange plastic quality. Hadrian built a luxurious villa in Tivoli so that it could include the biggest names of the various provinces and regions to designate their various parties calling, for example, the Lyceum, the Academy, the Pritaneo, the Canopus, the Stoa Poecile, or the vale of Tempe. And, not to overlook anything, he built even an underground world. Esparciano, Life of Hadrian.