St. Regis Rome — Garden Requalification Visualization

A garden proposal made legible through the precision of a photograph.

The Challenge

The St. Regis Rome garden project required more than a plan. The proposal needed to be understood as an inhabited exterior: a place where existing architecture, city context, planting and hospitality could be read together in one frame.

Working in collaboration with architect Sara Murru, I developed the photographic visualisation of a proposed garden requalification. The task was to make the design believable at human scale without turning the image into generic landscaping decoration.

The Direction

The visualisation began with the existing site and treated photography as a project instrument. The point was to hold the historical facade, the urban edge, mature trees and new garden components in the same visual field.

Planting, shaped greenery, lawn, seasonal flowers and containers were introduced as a coherent atmosphere rather than isolated objects. The outcome was a pair of photographic simulations that allowed the proposed intervention to be understood from both panoramic and internal points of view.

Process Notes

• A panoramic image established the relation between garden, street and hotel setting.

• An internal garden view showed planting density, pathways and the scale of the intervention.

This work sits between photography and spatial direction. It uses the credibility of the existing image to test how a project may feel before it is built.

Scope and Credits

Role: Photographic visualisation and project image direction
Collaboration: Architect Sara Murru
Project: Garden requalification, St. Regis Rome
Date in project documentation: 30 May 2022
Client in project documentation: Director Giuseppe De Martino

Selected collaborative work. Architectural design and photographic visualisation are credited separately.