Following a study of apparatuses in Urban theory and design;from Pope Sixtus the Vth's basilica axes for Rome to Michel Foucault's definition of apparatus,the project marks a long lateral trajectory,culminating in a strategic design project for Ostia,an important coastal satellite of Rome.
The territory of Ostia is read as the result of the intersection (or absence of intersection) of different components: a seaside resort, a neighborhood of Rome, an agrarian landscape and a world level archaeological site.The growing disparity between these components arises out of a greater urbanising apparatus:tourism ,which ,if allowed to grow unchecked , threatens to flatten the urban identity of Ostia into the same touristic mass that other coastal touristic sites on the Mediterranean ,such as Benidorm and Rimini are made of.
The project seeks to expand on the prolific archaeological heritage of Ostia to create a new unifying apparatus that counters this,in the form of a 'territorial campus'
