Colosseo Metro Station

The Colosseo Metro Station in Rome has been tiled using the Pietre di Paragone porcelain stoneware collection by Casalgrande Padana, in the colour Gré Nero.

The design project for the Colosseo Metro Station in Rome, by the architects Andrea Grimaldi and Filippo Lambertucci, with the architects Livio Carriero, Amanzio Farris, Davide Leogrande, Edoardo Marchese, Valerio Ottavio and Leo Viola, has won first prize in the Large Surfaces and Façade Cladding category of the 13th edition of the Grand Prix architecture competition, for the reasons indicated below:

“The dark grey cladding material used for both flooring and vertical surfaces draws attention to the dimensions of the spaces, and together with the incisions in the architectural layouts obtained by sanding, gives a museum-like appearance to the through areas and the surface connections, creating an immersive space projected towards the monument above.”

These evocative scenarios have been shaped through an extremely limited range of materials and colours, called upon to deliver a supremely clear representation of the twofold narrative device. The rough, cavernous dimension of the area underground is evoked, almost as if freshly quarried, by the seamless, continuous floor and wall surfaces, clad with stoneware tiles from the Pietre di Paragone collection by Casalgrande Padana, in the colour Gré Nero, particularly effective in creating continuous, material surfaces, without a dominant direction, while the salient archaeological and architectural features are marked with gold-coloured finishes on part of the sheet steel coverings, which light up in contrast with the background to highlight elements that are not only beautiful to look at, but also help guide users of the metro station.