The cultural center is conceived as a compact building, visually permeable on the ground floor, and more introverted on the first level, characterized by a brick cladding engraved on the street fronts by a few measured openings. The choice of compactness is aimed at minimizing the occupation of the soil within the lot, so as to guarantee on the one hand the greater permeability of the same and on the other a fair allocation of external areas.

A material mass counterpointed on the roof by the presence of ceramic-clad volumes: skylights in the great hall, elevator towers and stairs.

These volumes recall the roof terraces of the noble palaces which, together with the domes and statues of sacred and representative buildings, mark the skyline of the historic city, and sometimes surmounted by trees, they evoke the ancient monumental remains, from the mausoleums of the near via Appia, to the ruins of the Celio and the Palatino, where nature and artifice merge into an inextricable whole, the very archetype of the image of Rome.