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Forestry

Cafe, Used Bookstore and Research Center
Rome, Italy

Fall 2021

The project is located in the Flamino neighborhood of Rome within the MAXXI Café. The initial site analysis involved a critical look at the existing column grid, apetures, symmetry, and the existing structural elements within the space, as well as the surrounding green spaces.  O ur client is the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (also known as ISPRA), who’s goal is to utilize their research and funding to create a venue for community outreach through the means of a used bookstore. 





“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Cicero


project created with Audrey Wolz and Abby Vaught
University of Arkansas Rome Center




Bachelor of Interior Design, May 2022.

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Megan Paul

“Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.”
- Peter Zumthor