Professor Bill Boswell - Design Studio: Architecture II

Spring 2022

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The Garden of the Good and Evil is an Italian Garden located in Rome, Italy, on the site of the Villa Farnesina. Villa Farnesina currently archives rare century old etchings and lithographs. This Villa is often visited by people who wants to see the beautiful perspective frescos. This Garden provides a visitor pass checkpoint and an orientation gateway that leads people into the garden and to the Villa Farnesina. The Garden of the Good and Evil displays the seven rules of a traditional Italian garden, which are containment, view, Grotto, Bosco (forest), Fresco,  trees in a row, and the water element. A perspective model was designed in lieu of frescos. The existing Secret Garden behind the Villa Farnesina was visible to everyone so, the landscape of this garden hid the Secret Garden behind its design in a way that the visitors would not see it or know that they are being led to the Secret Garden until they get there.

The Garden leads the visitors who enter through the visitor pass checkpoint and orientation gateway, through the arbor that leads them into the front yard of the Villa Farnesina, to the path through the Bosco, into a labyrinth of groves that leads them into various points in the garden, such as a courtyard, the Grotto that memorializes the old entrance of the site, and the Secret Garden that is in alignment with the Grotto.