Villa d’Este

Instructor: Bryan Fuermann

Fall 2021 Yale University

Villa d'Este, located in Tivoli, is an Italian Renaissance Garden famous for its terraced hillside and especially for its profusion of fountains, designed (1550s A.D.) by the Mannerist architect Pirro Ligorio for the Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este.

This model aims to tell the story of water, to diagram and categorize the various water strategies of this garden by isolating all key water features, including the five main fountains and pools, along with any related decorative, terrace, and planting strategies. Accordingly, water features were amplified, and all irrelevant geometries were simplified and rationalized. All fountain arching and pools are represented with frosted acrylic by laser cut.

Scale: 1:300 aprox.