RIVA ROMA

“Riva Roma” is an individual collection that maps the history of Rome’s water supply by layering representative water features from different historical eras. Combining chronology, hydrology, and topography, “Riva Roma” is an invitation to explore the city along different routes. It reflects urban planning strategies and urbanization processes and reveals how they have shaped the city's morphology and the structure of public space to this day. “Riva Roma” prompts a shift in perspective in order to recognize urban-spatial relationships. It provides orientation within urban space and establishes a relationship with the landscape.

For the exhibition at the Martin Gropius Bau, the waterways were traced on the floor. The most representative water features, nodes within the water supply network, were suspended from the ceiling to depict Rome’s urban topography.