Villaggio Olimpico — Davide Luccini Portfolio

In the plain between the Villa Glori and the Tiber, an agglomeration of shacks of displaced persons, known as Campo Parioli, had formed in the 1940s due to the war events. To clear and demolish the agglomeration, the occasion of the 1960 Rome Olympics was seized. To accommodate the athletes, a new building complex, called the Olympic Village, was built on the plain in 1958-59, designed by architects Vittorio Cafiero, Adalberto Libera, Amedeo Luccichenti, Vincenzo Monaco and Luigi Moretti // A structure enabling overland communication routes to cross watercourses or depressions. Often as an element of great importance not only functionally, but also monumentally and historically