Restoration of the Rome Stock Exchange, Piazza di Pietra - Temple of Hadrian

Rome, 1989

The seat is located in the temple of Hadrian (the remains of the temple were incorporated by Carlo Fontana in the palace of the Customs of Earth), only in 1831 the building was used as the seat of the Stock Exchange. This was one of the ten Italian stock exchanges active until 1997, when they were unified into the Italian Stock Exchange.

The objective of the project is the maintenance over time of the historical schedule for the purpose of transmission to posterity, intervening in the most compatible way possible with the existing and following the criterion of the minimum intervention dear to the school of restoration. The fundamental theme is the fixed furniture has been studied in a way consistent with the character attributed to the completion of the main room that is with a classical language that is to constitute a sort of commentary on the pre-existing architecture exalting the monumental values and with a clear differentiation of materials and finishes in order to constitute a reversible intervention and distinguishable from the point of view of the theory of restoration. The criterion, however, is to continue the formal and stylistic characteristics of the whole room with furniture harmoniously inserted in the interior architecture of the same