Museo dell'Ara Pacis - Exterior
Left Side - facing the Tiber River
The closely related paving levels inside and outside the museum's vast window-wall visually connect those inside and outside the museum. Nevertheless, the remarkably successful sound-proofing protects museum visitors from the often extreme traffic noise, providing an ideally contemplative museum environment.
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 Viewers outside the left (west) side of the grand hall. photo May 2010
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 For those within the museum, the glass wall provides visual transparency, while maintaining remarkable sound and temperature isolation from the outside. photo July 2008 |
 The tempered glass panes are approximately 16 1/2 feet long; those on the ground level about 10 feet high, those above about 5 feet tall. photo May 2010 |
 Looking from the front of the grand hall to the west and buildings on the opposite side of the Tiber River. photo July 2008
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 View through the west glass wall to Lungotevere in Augusta and buiidings on opposite side of the Tiber River. photo Oct. 2008
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 Tourist visible through the
west photo Oct. 2008
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 Dramatic perspective of the museum's external, horizontal planes. photo May 2010 |
 Opening between the massive travertine wall at left and lower wall at right, allowing access to the museum entrance. View of the Church of photo Oct. 2008 |
 Traffic along west side of the museum. Current plans call for this main artery to be lowered into a tunnel to reduce noise and provide for a green area between the museum and the Tiber embankment. photo May 2010 |
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