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"Silvano Toti" GLOBE THEATRE, Rome
Situated in Villa Borghese’s "museum park", the Silvano Toti GLOBE THEATRE is a Rome’s Elizabethan Theatre. Conceived by Gigi Proietti, it was built thanks to the generous support by the Fondazione Silvano Toti and the Municipality of Rome. The Silvano Toti GLOBE THEATRE in Roma was designed like London’s Globe Theatre, which opened in 1576 in Shoreditch in central north London.
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Project:
arch. Giuseppe Viggiano
arch. Laura Levanti
Customer: Fondazione Silvano Toti
Construction company: Lamaro Appalti S.p.A. - Roma
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The Globe Theatre has a peculiar circular structure, with a rectangular stage above which there is a roof supported by two columns. It was built by 150 workers in just four months and has a capacity of 1.250, which include 420 standing places and three concentric covered balconies that are as high as ten metres from the floor. All balconies look onto the stage, which is 13.50 m wide and 7.50 m deep.
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Like all Elizabethan theatres, the Globe Theatre in Rome is also made of wood. It was built with 600 cubic metres of oak obtained from reforestation programs and worked in Italian sawmills.
The roof was made with Prestige Traditional metal tiles.
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"Prestige Traditional": the tradition of copper lives on
Ever since 2500 BC copper has been widely used as a roofing material because of its incomparable beauty. Tegola Canadese has adopted an exclusive modern technology to manufacture "Prestige", a line of copper-coated shingles. Prestige Traditional is a water-cut tile that is manufactured using advanced manufacturing equipment. It uses a 99.7% pure copper foil, which develops a grey and later green patina that is distinctive of copper. This patina protects copper from the effects of all weather conditions and pollution.
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