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    The Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome was designed by Michelangelo to be the center of civic power in Rome. It is located atop Capitoline Hill and surrounded by important monuments. Michelangelo added geometric and classical elements to the design, including an elliptical pavement and ramp leading up to the piazza. He also added new palaces to help regulate the irregularly shaped space and solve issues caused by the trapezoidal shape of the land. The design features symmetrical layout and orientation facing away from the Roman Forum and towards St. Peter's Basilica, representing the prevailing power of the popes at the time.

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    The Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome was designed by Michelangelo to be the center of civic power in Rome. It is located atop Capitoline Hill and surrounded by important monuments. Michelangelo added geometric and classical elements to the design, including an elliptical pavement and ramp leading up to the piazza. He also added new palaces to help regulate the irregularly shaped space and solve issues caused by the trapezoidal shape of the land. The design features symmetrical layout and orientation facing away from the Roman Forum and towards St. Peter's Basilica, representing the prevailing power of the popes at the time.

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    The Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome was designed by Michelangelo to be the center of civic power in Rome. It is located atop Capitoline Hill and surrounded by important monuments. Michelangelo added geometric and classical elements to the design, including an elliptical pavement and ramp leading up to the piazza. He also added new palaces to help regulate the irregularly shaped space and solve issues caused by the trapezoidal shape of the land. The design features symmetrical layout and orientation facing away from the Roman Forum and towards St. Peter's Basilica, representing the prevailing power of the popes at the time.

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    Piazza

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    The Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome was designed by Michelangelo to be the center of civic power in Rome. It is located atop Capitoline Hill and surrounded by important monuments. Michelangelo added geometric and classical elements to the design, including an elliptical pavement and ramp leading up to the piazza. He also added new palaces to help regulate the irregularly shaped space and solve issues caused by the trapezoidal shape of the land. The design features symmetrical layout and orientation facing away from the Roman Forum and towards St. Peter's Basilica, representing the prevailing power of the popes at the time.

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    Piazza del Campidoglio

    Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Presented by Reem Ibrahim


    ID: 21100391
    ABOUT Piazza del Campidoglio
    It is located in the center of the city
    of Rome, Italy.
    Located atop Capitoline Hill, it is
    surrounded by other important monuments
    of the city as the Capitoline Museum, Santa
    Maria in Aracoeli and Tabularium.
    Around the base of the hill there is also the
    monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the Altar
    of the Fatherland, and the Roman Forum at
    its end farthest from Colosseum.

    2 20XX
    ARCHITECTURE OF THE PIAZZA
    This project shows the geometrical and classical revival trend while announcing
    the way to introducing Baroque figures in tension as the ellipse pavement. It also
    incorporates the issue of regularization of public spaces through architecture, as
    it would be on the set of a theater.

    Michelangelo added the New Palace to the square to help regulate space. Still,
    the architect had to solve the trapezoidal shape of it, which made the buildings
    were not in relation to any right angle, and the fact that the land fell to the
    northern corner of the square. The radical solution of Michelangelo beginning
    with the addition of the ramp-ladder called Cordonata. This ascent leads the
    passerby look skyward up to get prior municipal power space, located at the top
    of the hill. Once in the square pavement it seems to regularize the space thanks
    to its oval geometry. This, however, is not true, because due to the trapezoidal
    shape of the space, the pavement actually gets more like that of an egg geometry,
    with one end narrower than the opposite oval.
    The ramp-staircase that rises to the
    square marks the center axis of the symmetrical
    space.

    When you has to decide which side of


    the square pass, since its center is occupied by
    the statue of Marcus Aurelius, later to retake
    the choice of why flight of stairs up to enter
    the Senator palace.

    This space, marked by axialidad forces the passer


    to realize completely symmetrical arrangement
    of elements facing him to them first and then
    make those around them.

    4 20XX
    In Roman times the city watched from the Capitoline Hill to
    the forum, while in medieval and Renaissance happened to
    be faced to the opposite side. The opening of the square
    towards the Basilica of St. Peter’s Basilica and not to the
    Roman Forum is showing the prevailing power of the time,
    the popes.

    The combination of oval shape with Diamond


    pavement forms collects and transforms a geometric
    game between the circle and the usual square in the
    Renaissance. The oval part of the pavement of the
    square sets a floor anivelado that relates to the slopes
    around through steps going up or coming down from
    coda as needed. The exception to this level ground is
    located in the center of the square, raised slightly to see
    the passerby located in the center of the city and the
    world, as the historian, specializing in Michelangelo,
    Charles de Tolnay explained. In the center of the
    pavement also you find a twelve-pointed star as a
    subtle reference to the constellations. This

    5 20XX
    History of

    Michelangelo changed the orientation of the buildings on the hill by turning it downwards towards Campo Marzio which
    was the beating heart of Rome. The objectives for the urban rearrangement of the whole complex for Michelangelo were:
    1. it must have been a nice entrance to the city
    2. the plateau was to be leveled
    3. declining buildings had to be restored
    4. it had to become a whole, a unit and have five entrances.

    6 St. Peter's Basilica 20XX


    ABOUT Piazza del Campidoglio

    7 20XX
    Inside the basilica

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