This design project for the Villa Rosa in Florence, Italy is treated as an extrusion of private space using the boundary of the site. The program is an expansion to the existing institutional building of Syracuse University. Pure geometric spaces begin to be carved out of this mass to establish the public areas in white. The remaining space is designated for the private use of students and faculty like classrooms and meeting rooms.
Villa Rosa
The 1748 Nolli map of Rome is the first figure ground map that includes the depiction of public spaces in white such as squares, churches and libraries that appear to be carved out of the black mass representing the private realm.