The Tiber River embankment has long served as flood-control infrastructure, but this protective role has also led to its isolation from daily urban life. Frequent flooding, hard retaining walls, and limited access have rendered the riverbank largely underutilized, perceived more as a leftover or abandoned edge than an active public space. 

 

The Tiber River Repairation project reimagines the riverfront as an active, inhabitable landscape by creating a gradual transition between architecture, ground, and the river. The design allows built form to emerge from and dissolve back into the landscape, using fragmentation to echo the process of water erosion while creating moments for access, gathering, and waste collection guided by river currents. A hexagonal geometry organizes both circulation and program, shaping a continuous system of ramps and spaces that connect the Tiber River Museum, Tourist Piazza, and Pilgrim’s Housing. Through shifts in scale and density, the architecture gradually flattens into the park, transforming the embankment from a boundary into a layered public destination.