amputation and graft Vol.3 - VE(RY)NICE by annacatoserio

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VE(RY) NICE

A cura di Alejandra Esteve, Alexis Schachter & Anna Serio

Preface This book is part of a three-book publication that took form during the 21st edition of the Wave Summer Workshop at the IUAV University in Venice. It aims to summarise and collect the work of the 81 students in the WS_17 workshop led by Arch. Alexis Schachter, together with Alejandra Esteve and Anna Serio. The idea of the workshop was to create a new connection between the South American culture of Buenos Aires and the city of Venice by suggesting different ways of operating in the urban context. We proposed the theme: amputation and graft. Before being ready for their architectural graft, the students spent some time studying both the city of Buenos Aires and the city of Venice. This investigation work can be found in volumes 1 and 2, while volume 3 presents the student’s proposal for the city of Venice.

We would like to thank the students for their work and dedication and the wave staff for giving us this unique opportunity and helping us out when we were in need. Finally, a special thanks go to the guests who participated in this: Professor Roberto Lombardi from the University of Buenos Aires, Architect Juan Cruz Acevedo Diaz from PIEZA practice and Ignacio Fleurquin from BULLA practice.

Amputation and graft.

In Botany, the idea of the graft that appears from cutting gives place to fantasizing with hybrid species, in which the potency or resistance from one accompanies the growth of the other. In Architecture, the idea of grafting something that has been amputated can give place to imagining ruptures in the inertia of traditions and cultures, creating an open platform for debating the future of the problems of cities and buildings. From the American point of view, Venice and its imaginary universe appear as untouchable and fragile. Its buildings, eternal. Americans, tourists. From the Venetian point of view, how does Buenos Aires or any other Latin-American metropolis appear? Cities in which urban transformation happens faster than any other plan, and the self-management of habitat seems to do without Architecture as a discipline. Could a Latin American architect think in Venice? Could an architect formed in Venice think in Buenos Aires? Furthermore, if so, which disciplinary hybrids would result in such incursions? The workshop proposes to set an exercise of project exchange between these cultures, starting from the problem of the University Campus, to understand which hybridizations can exist between both as sources of new visions and possibilities. Several friends of the Monoblock office and colleagues who are thinking about the future of cities and the consequences that those visions can have in Architecture, together with students of the universities of Buenos Aires in which we are teachers, partecipaded in the workshop, exposing their experiences and opening moments of intercontinental debates.

Ve(ry)nice: a catalogue of the students’ proposal for the future of Venice

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NEW SPACE IN THE THIRD DIMESION group 1 Venezia 2030 In Venice there’s an issue that depends on the impossibility to build new spaces. The whole city is an historical patrimony. There’s nearly no possibility to demolish, and considering the saturation of the buildings, there’s no space to create new. So it is necessary to invent new surfaces. This issue comes from the low level of Venice’s roofs: the city doesn’t use the vertical dimension as a resource. This city, that develops horizontally needs a vertical trust. This project raises Venice to the sky, approaching the vertical dimension for the first time since the bell towers. It is a new solution, that with impressive heights changes the skyline of the city. This revolution occupies the least space possible and approaches the city at various points, giving an important possibility to the community to resolve local issues. The strategy begins with the insert of six skyscrapers that incorporate various possibilities for the community, such as libraries, places to study, housing, shops, free spaces and everything else the city can need. Depending on the location of the insert, the skyscraper adapts its resources. It is not a defined project that has an end in itself. It’s just the start of a new way of building in Venice, the beginning of a new strategy.

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everything is disneyland 2 A PROPOSAL FOR A FUNFAIR ISLAND IN FRONT OF SAN MARCO group2 Venezia, Italia The project is situated within the basin facing San Marco, so in a central position that connects the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal. The idea is to intervene with an ironic provocation to the dystopian concept “Venice is not Disneyland” born as a criticism of tourists’ behavior towards the lagoon city that is seen as an amusement park. The project consists of the construction of a floating platform, which houses a funfair inspired by Coney Island in New York, a water park and an infinity pool. In particular, the area dedicated to the amusement park includes an equipped area with a stage for performances and raves, a horse carousel, a roller coaster, a Ferris Wheel and a labyrinth. Inside the water park, however, there is a large swimming pool, slides and various equipment, such as refreshment places, kiosks, etc. The infinity pool overlooks San Marco and stands as a piece of Lido in the center of Venice with a beach and sunbeds. The platform is accessible on your own boat or vaporetto because the existing lines run the same stretch. In fact, the project also includes a small port. The main entrance is situated in front of Punta della Dogana and from here the entire park develops thanks to small streets and roundabouts. The theme that we wanted to deal with through this “project” is a criticism and reflection inevitably linked to the future of Venice and to everything that influences its changes from tourism, which is the main source in its thousand forms, to trade. So what is the destiny of Venice? Will it be prey only to tourists walking in the various museums or will it become even more?

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exhibition park 3 FLOATING PARK FOR THE FLOATING CITY group 3 Venezia, Canel della Giudecca 2300

The park ends with a large theater (a sort of “theater of the world”) located in front of the San Marco complex inspired by the utopian buildings of Etienne-Louis Boullée and consisting of two perfect geometric shapes, a parallelepiped and a sphere. The big buildings do not have a specific functional program defined but they will have multiple uses and functions.

The park-buildings complex is located on a floating platform that occupies almost the entire Giudecca canal, leaving a space between the fondamenta, allowing the water to flow and be an integral part of the project.

The idea of the great theater that concludes the park originates from the utopian projects of Aldo Rossi already in relation with the Venetian urban landscape, proposing them through the filter of the great utopias of the French Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century in which the geometric shapes create a perfect utopian ideal and without resorting to well-defined architectural categories but creating a universal space that merges with the new park and creating a totally innovative and ideal space for the city of Venice.

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Although having a large utopian component, this idea allows the creation of new green spaces and a new complex of buildings that are completely unusual for the city; which allow to enormously increase the otherwise very limited soil. Furthermore, the project contains a provocation in stimulating awareness of the use of the land as an otherwise green surface absent in the city and a new skyline that is completely unusual and in contrast with the historic buildings that create a great immobility of competitive and innovative ideas. PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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Urban farming seems to be one of the most successful responses in the modern world to problems related to pollutions and lack of quality food.

Venice has been the subject of a reflection about the sustainable development of the city. Increasing urbanization and climate change are among the most serious problems Venice is facing in this last years. Our design proposal consists in the installation of urban gardens on platforms at different heights that overlook the roofs of existing buildings.

Urban farming offers a valuable opportunity for sustainability because, by shortening the food supply chain, it allows to reduce pollution related to long-distance transport such as greenhouse gas emissions, and food waste, providing fresh, high quality and local products to the inhabitants, involving them both from the educational and working point of view. In addition, the increase of plants within the urban system also provides several positive externalities of environmental type thanks to the release of oxygen by plants due to chlorophyll photosynthesis. By storing atmospheric CO2, plants favor an urban environment with cleaner air, reducing carbon dioxide levels. They also contribute to the regulation of temperatures, air humidity and increase the shady areas that offer shelter from the summer heat, given that the plants can absorb much of the light radiated by the sun. From a social point of view, urban farming helps to increase psychophysical well-being, thanks to the colors and scents of plants and flowers that, in addition to subconsciously reconnecting the hectic environment of the city to a more relaxing environment like that of the countryside, allows a pleasant feeling of natural harmony, all to the advantage of design and urban living spaces. It is possible to live in a self-sufficient and sustainable way even living in highly urbanized cities.

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The cultivable platforms are located in urban units: GREEN TERRACES IN VENICE specific areas of the cityPER characterized by a Campo, group REALIZZATO 4 CON UN PRODOTTO AUTODESK VERSIONE STUDENTI one or more canals and a building of historical and Venezia cultural importance. 2022

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green net 5 NEW ECOSYSTEM FOR VENICE group 5 Venezia 2022

be used by students and placing it near the university location of Cotonificio and Magazzini, which are the biggest ones, and the headquarter of IUAV. The green road seems to go outside its “shores” and invade the space nearby. The site is surrounded by the facades of the existing buildings around it, that make a very specific and geometric draw. There will be a double space. An external space, on the surface, that continues the green road, also with brushes and grass. And an internal space, under this green surface, which will host other functions which are linked to the university. It can be considered as two layers that overlap one on the other. The green layer that overlaps the urban layer.

The Project “Green Net” is an urban project that consider all the island of Venice, with the exception of Giudecca. We identified two main issues linked to the venetian urban tissue and the university locations around the city. The first one was the scarcity of green spaces around the city. There aren’t spaces where you can enjoy nature, breath clean air and leave the caos of the city. The second problem was the big distance between every university location, which makes it difficult to every student to attend lessons and conference or just to study in these places. We realized that we could combine the green areas with the accessibility by tracing many green roads across the urban tissue in the place of some canals. The canals that we chose were the ones which link all the different university locations. By making this we could create a green path that expands on the surface of the city by following the current forms and lines of the urban tissue. In addition to this green path, we wanted to insert a space which could

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the new way 6 A WALK OF ART ON WATER group 6 Venice 2022

So the project consists of a floating catwalk in the middle of the channel, a new pedestrian way on water. This floating platform is a temporary architecture that allow to see at Venice by new perspectives, always on the water, but in a sustainable way. It becomes olso a scenografic structure, because in front of the main buildings of the Canal Grande, the catwalk offers visual cones toward facades. Indeed the buildings can be treatened like theater backdrops, set up to be unveiled with temporary installations made by tissues. Therefore another interesting aspect of this project is the aim to enhance the existent architecture through a clever walk way that guide the observer at the discovery of architecture in the Canal Grande. The idea was designed also to make up for the lack of public spaces dedicated to leisure time of the Venetians. In fact, it’s well known that Venice is more and more a city for tourism and too much treatened like a museum and not like a city.

The most of the beautiful historic buildings of Venice overlook the Canal Grande which is the main water way of the archipelago. This artery is interested by architectural masterpieces and boat traffic at the same time, almost as if you were in any city in the world.

Thus we believe that the Canal Grande with its fifty meters of lenghth can host these spaces on the water, starting from the catwalk. The strategy can evolve in a secondary system that consists of various pavilions of ten meter lenghth that can be freely moved and customizable.

But yet, Venice is different, because you have to go on your feet to enjoy slowly the city, acoording to an healty way of life. Sure, you can take the vaporetto, but Venice is a very fragile city and all its architectural heritage is everyday risking to disappear, not just because of the global warming and soil’s sinking, but also because of the motor boats. What if we decide to preserve the banks of the Canal Grande and to introduce a new sustainable strategy for living the hearth of Venice? It means new public spaces for the venetian’s free time in a unique system that crosses the city and can have an effect on all the island. We must recognize that in the Canal Grande you can’t see at the main facades of the monuments if you’re not on boat and this is the reason why there is so much traffic boat in this water way.

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shifting the city 7 that is gradually disappearing, but not completely. The canals will continue to exist and be used with boats as the Venetians are used to. Our aim is to give life to a new, simplified urban fabric resulting from the intersection of this new route with the existing city. In particular, we will recover all the equipped and green spaces that have been submerged, connecting the entire city as a single network of connections and creating a new lived city (switching of the city), a new layer for the city. This new route will partly take up the old calli, as the promenade will take place between the ‘surviving’ and the ‘new’ Venice; it will not only be a connection, but also a large open and equipped space.

THE NEW LAYER OF VENICE group 7 Venice, Italy 2122 The project idea arose from the possibility of identifying a strategy to solve a problem that plagues Venice today: high water. Imagining a future scenario in which Venice will be partly submerged by water, we asked ourselves what will remain and what will disappear. What will be preserved will certainly be the canals, while the first level to disappear will be the calli, making them impassable and making walking impossible. Together with the streets, the Venetian campi and the few green spaces will also disappear, and Venice will become an unlivable city. For this reason, the objective is to create a new, simplified city layer that is created by the intersection of the route with the existing city. The new elevated route, supported by a point structure, will occupy the city respecting it without encroaching on it. Only three-storey high buildings will be covered, while the remaining ones will sprout from the platform, together with the most important buildings, as a sort of memory of the ancient city

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diagonal outlines 8 THE STAND Venezia group 8 2023

In the masterplan we have thought of three iconic points of Venice in which we have designed a variant of this structure, which evolves its functions according to the needs that the campus may have in that specific area. Dorsoduro district, on the coast, in front of the Cotonificio IUAV. Equipped with common classrooms, study areas, specialized laboratories and spaces for the storage of architectural models. San Marco district, in the water, in front of the main square. Outdoor study rooms, a small laboratory, a multifunctional stage inspired by the 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice. Canareggio district, on the coast, in front of the monumental cemetery, on the side of the hospital in Venice. Student dormitory equipped with study rooms and storage rooms.

The structure is conceived as a long roof in the shape of a staircase over the lagoon, above which unusual activities take place, spaces for fashion shows and scenic walks. Under the structure, floating platforms host places dedicated to the university campus, and alternate with green spaces for the community. The creation of two lateral modules dedicated to public transport allow us to think about stops for the vaporetto and the tram that connect the Stand with the main stations in Venice. The tram stop has been specially designed to be located in front of the Cotonificio IUAV, using a line of tracks currently used for freight transport. This project is like a large stage that can be adapted to any point of the Venice lagoon, leaned to the coast or left to itself like an island.

Study rooms Student dormitories with park and Vaporetto station Bar Storage area Laboratory

Study rooms

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Bar and Storage area

Laboratory

Storage area Bar Laboratory Mirror of water Student dormitories with park and Vaporetto station Study rooms

Stage and relax

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multiple sockets 9 PLUG IN PROGRAMS FOR VENICE

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The purpose of our project is to improve the experience of the city, not only for students but also for the local population, which is compressed by the growing number of tourists, re-establishing the nature-man contact that is denied in Venice. 1 2 3 6

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This goal will be achieved thanks to the grafting of green areas into the existing urban fabric. These will present spaces with greater density and others that are more free and open that allow visitors to behave freely, while most of the elements will present a hydrographic element, a building with an indefinite function, which can take on an infrastructure role according to the needs of the population, and vegetation. Thanks to this intervention, new public spaces will be created following the lines of the city and completing the “missing” parts. Their concept will be transformed, as it will not simply be a new space, but rather a new way of experiencing the coast, where the limits of Venice will be expanded.

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the usefulness of utopia 10 RAISED CYCLE PATH group 10 Venice, Italy 2222

We decided to maintain the idea of putting a new, innovative, creation inside a older shell. Our shell wasn’t something like a building or a single square but the whole Venice. So we used Venice as a old shell that could contain our innovative project.

Have you ever walked around our campus and thought that it would be really better if there was a way to reach every place in a blink of an eye? Have you ever felt that what you need for your life as a student was not easy and fast to reach? Well, we decided to make this project to make it easier for students to reach every important place in a faster and easier way.

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Our project is a raised bike road that connects everything that a students could need to look at, like museums, libraries, university venues, housings and squares. Places that are useful to study and even to social life.

We studied how those points of focus were positioned inside the city of Venice to understand which were the points where we could build pillars that has both function of foundation and passage to the road that is raised by 30 meters from the ground.

Legend: 1- Piazzale Roma 2- Parking Santa Marta 3- Campo Drio il cimitero 4- Campo Santa Margherita

We decide to place those pillar in the squares, because those are the only places in Venice in which we can build such a big building without having to block streets or canals that are commonly used to move around in Venice. We have been able to place those pillars making possible to reach every focus point of a student life in a radius of 250 meters. In the making of our project we were inspired by the banco ciudad of Buenos Aires. What is really interesting in that bank is that there is a really innovative construction inside an old classical building. The architects that worked on that project decided to maintain the old shell of the classic palace and then put in that shell their invention. They build a really interesting “box” that connects the floor to the wall and even to thevv ceiling creating a big single block.

5- Campo Sant’Agnese 6- Campo dei Frari 7- Campo San Cassiano 8- Campo Nazario Sauro

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linear garden 11 A FLOATING EDGE AROUND VENICE group 11 Venice 2022

This urban project is addressed too students first, in order to provide a more comfortable academic environment, but also to the entire citizenship of Venice.This new green area develops within different kinds of services, like study rooms, work spaces, coffee areas, libraries, relax and leisure rooms, gyms. This meeting spaces take place inside cubic structures made of steel and glass, which transparency allows a direct connection with the natural environment.

The consolidated fabric of the historic city of Venice, although unique and rich in history, significantly limits the possibility of developing an environment suitable to the comfort and needs of a student. The project of the Line Garden consists in an infrastructure that wraps the island and it’s composed by a continuous line of floating platforms. These, characterized by linear green gardens and pedestrian roads, have the aim of re-establish a strong relationship between the citizens and the water. The project meets the need for more green areas, which are capable of protecting the city from solar radiation, atmospheric agents and the erosive action of the water. The floating surface is designed to preserve the practicability of the canals, indeed in some points the platform becomes a ramp that rises to cross the waterway, garantiring an easily walkable and accessible path. Furthermore, according to some specifical places, the platform takes on different extensions.

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new horizons 12 FLOATING PLATFORMS group 12 Venice, Italy 2030

This is a platform that hosts various spaces for study, for practical and theoretical work. The new sports centre will offer a huge system of fields, concentrated just in one place, a real sports club. The garden-scientific centre tries to establish a new relation with nature and a new idea of progress is perpetuated by scientific research, in one of the Galileo’s cities. Moreover, this building will offer a modern and European square. The seven gardens have function of penetrate, with green spaces, Venice, in a capillary mode.

The platforms yearn to become the material image of Venice’s cosmopolitism, the same cosmopolitism that born from Ulysses’ curiosity, thanks to which the human has desire to explore the sea of knowledge. From this comes the idea of this project: creating space where there isn’t, exploring new possibilities, imagining Venice’s future on water.

The method for succeed in the application of this idea is modular architecture, that permit to change platforms according to the future needs. The module is a cube, which composition give life to platforms shapes, and this allow to recycle island when it will be necessary. To all this is subtended a general idea, the exploration of alternative methods. We try to face the matter in a modern way, creating new possibilities where now it is impossible and trying to invert the museumization process of Venice. Without, however, forgetting city’s soul, a city that is curious and look to new horizons, like the Homeric hero Odysseus.

The project consists of 11 floating platforms which want to offer to the city new services. One platform is dedicated to primary sector, the others are a study space, a sport center, a garden that works also as a scientific centre and seven small garden-platform. These buildings face the problem of modernity in Venice, responding trying to give avant-garde answers as architectonical as technological. Therefore, platforms fulfill to energy storage task. The cultivation’s island will follow high tech approach too. Hydroponic methods will guarantee ecological and more productive plantations, as well as km0 products. The lack of space of university students, more evident after health restrictions, make diriment the need of a space for students near university. 30

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SQUAT OF THE HISTORICAL COURTYARDS OF VENICE group 13 Venice 2022

On the first floor there will be study rooms, also “single-person” where you can find your own quiet and your own “private” space, which often cannot be found in your accommodation. Then, on the upper floor you will find lecture rooms where students can share their ideas, give lessons to their classmates or practice teaching presentations. Finally, in the upper floor, relaxation areas where you can have fun, relax and socialize.

Venice is a historic and university city. Focusing on this last aspect, analyzing the different university poles where student life develops, you can see several dedicated infrastructures. Living in this environment, however, one finds oneself in the absence of some indispensable places. Our project aims to respond to the problems that we have identified after careful reflection. We think that the city lacks green spaces, even equipped, usable by us students but also by other citizens.

In these redeveloped structures, to move from one floor to another, escalators will be placed, thus creating diagonal flows. For example, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi is one of the buildings in which we intend to intervene. The work retains its external elevations as well as the courtyard. We create spaces in the middle of nature that invades the entire building. In the courtyard there will be a garden that will be the most internal. Then a garden inside another garden. With this type of requalification we think we can recreate usable environments in more areas and useful for the citizen and health.

Therefore, we decide to intervene in different points of the city, creating hubs and therefore a sort of “constellation” spread on the island. So, we thought of a project that creates green spaces within abandoned places, iconic buildings of the city and “steal” the vegetation of private ones, thus sharing the green space. These have been selected from a range of impressive palaces and with typical Venetian architecture. Within each intervention we think of a way to respond to the lack of spaces of different use. Therefore each structure is divided into several spaces, which we consider scarce or even absent. In the courtyards will be created vegetative ecosystems that will collaborate in the purification of the air and the constitution of shaded points. 32

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necessarily evil 14 THIS.ORDER : HYBRID BUILDINGS FOR THE CITY group 14 Venice 2049

We get used to our friends, our job, the place we live and even if it’s not perfect we accept it, because it’s familiar. What works today might not work tomorrow and as such we must be willing to change, aspiring to a utopic future.

Order and logic both define space. Even within a city like Venice, known for its dense and complex urban fabric, there is a specific logic. But as perspective shifts reality becomes something else, so what if someone mixed things up bringing disorder to the table? The ThisOrder Program changes the urban fabric by grafting huge monolithic buildings over the existing context, “discussing” with it. The building serves as an infrastructure for both social housing and public spaces that merge with the campos and calles. The monoliths have different purposes based on the needs of the specific area they get placed in. Making them high 3/2 Campanile of San Marco. Projects of this scale are not meant to be built but to provoke the public into thinking out of schemes as change is one of the most difficult things that we face, but change is inevitable. One reason we don’t like change is we get comfortable where we are.

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humid is the new cool

FOR A FUTURE GROWTH THROUGH THE LAGOON group 15 Venezia 2120ca Since the beginning of its civilization, the contact between Venezia and the water has always been mediated by wood or stone elements. Despite that, as a lagoon, the boundary between the dry part and the water of the canals wouldn’t naturally be so clear and defined. During the last centuries, with the industrial era, some areas of the Laguna have been violated and destroyed. The closest of those parts is the port, a huge concrete annex in the south west area of the city. The home of the big cruise ship is going to become obsolete as they will no more be part of the landscape of the city and the big part occupied by that port will become a mud pool. Here in an oasis condition the relation between mud and water will retourn to the origins. Round stilt houses connect the parts, as infrasturcutal scale bridges and piers, and accomodate the functions of the future campus for students and tourists. In a big water piazza boats and rafts will allow to enjoy the centeral part of the complex, with bars and gathering spaces. The vegetation and the fauna here will find the perfect habitat to grow on a semi-wet terrain that accomodates the tides and is prepared to an eventual rising of the water level.

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catwalk 16 A NEW WALKWAY FOR VENICE group 16 Venezia 2150 Nowadays there is much discussion about how we can save Venice from the phenomenon of high water and avoid a consequent sinking of a large part of the island. This city is rich of history, years of Republic, hegemony over the sea and amount of culture and works of art of immense value. But trying to change perspective and point of view, why save Venice when a new city could be created on top of it? Specifically, we imagined that in 2200 this walkway, starts from the mainland and develops as a pathway above the historic city; where only the roofs of the tallest buildings and the bell towers will be visible. For the next few years, walking or biking through it, under the walkway you will still be able to see the existing buildings, being able to skim over the decorations or roofs of them. For greater interaction and being able to access the “old city,” ramps have been placed at specific points, flanked by new volumes containing new features to bring students closer with residents and visitors. the new vertical buildings serve the function of refreshment bases, study rooms, libraries and public services. While the roofs of the new buildings are designed as a projection of the Venetian fields onto a new layer. The course of the path is dictated by a modularity given by the length between the Redeemer and the church on the opposite bank. Using this measurement as a base and repeating it two or more times, thus creating a loop path.

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a step beyond tradion 17 MANHATTAN IN VENICE group 17 Tronchetto island, Venezia 2072

to the identity of Venice and develops on the idea of a modern city such as Manhattan, presents a regular geometry defined by a checkerboard pattern cut by a pedestrian axis intended to take up the course of the Grand Canal. The area, divided into different zones will accommodate different uses, going to meet the needs of both the citizen and the student, going to create a connection with the university area of the Santa Marta district.

The project was born with the idea of giving a new identity to the area of the current Tronchetto with the aim of creating a new image for the skyline of Venice. With an eye to the future, we imagine a place that can have characteristics more like a modern city without touching the historical and cultural heritage.

The neighborhood-city would make Venice a metropolis, thanks to the inclusion of skyscrapers that would exploit the space in height by going increasing vertical development, an operation that at the same time allows the presence of green urban areas. The work deliberately contrasts with what belongs

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NEW SPACE IN THE THIRD DIMESION group 1 Venezia 2030

ANESE STELLA, ASCENZI EMMA, DZUNDRA IRYNA, KORZHAVINA OLEKSANDRA, SCARDUELLI MATTEO 43

A PROPOSAL FOR A FUNFAIR ISLAND IN FRONT OF SAN MARCO group2 Venezia, Italia

ROXANA BONCA, MARTINA DEGRATI, MARTA GUZZON, ANGELICA MION, SOUFIAN NAZARIN 44

FLOATING PARK FOR THE FLOATING CITY group 3 Venezia, Canel della Giudecca 2300

SYRIA BUSO, ALBERTO FLAMINIO, GIORGIA DI NATALE, MASSIMILIANO PASQUALI, MATTEO RIGATO 45

GREEN TERRACES IN VENICE group 4 Venezia 2022

CATERINA BORTOLETTO, FRANCESCA BRIGATO, SORANA MATEI, LUDOVICA RIGO 46

NEW ECOSYSTEM FOR VENICE group 5 Venezia 2022

MATTEO ABATE, THOMAS AMADIO, SIMONE BATTISTEL, CHIARA CATALDO, VINCENZO FERRI 47

A WALK OF ART ON WATER group 6 Venice 2022

BEATRICE CAVALCANTE, CHIARA CHIERICO, VERONICA DI ODOARDO, THOMAS DI GIOVANNI, GIACOMO FARALLI 48

THE NEW LAYER OF VENICE group 7 Venice, Italy 2122

PAOLO DI MICCO, FRANCESCA DOTTI, ALBERTO OTTAVIANI, ILARIA SIGNORINI, LAURA SOARDO 49

THE STAND Venezia group 8 2023

ELEONORA CURCIO, LODOVICO FALOMO, MARIA PIA IMBESI, EDOARDO MATTIUZZI 50

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CAMILLA CAMPACI, CAMILLA D’ALO’, GABRIEL CROCE, EVA GANZITTI, SILA NAZ BOLU 51

RAISED CYCLE PATH group 10 Venice, Italy 2222

ALESSANDRO BOLOGNA, EDOARDO CANTON, ALESSIO FREGONESE, EDOARDO VALVASORI 52

A FLOATING EDGE AROUND VENICE group 11 Venice 2022

GAIA BELLOTTO, AYOUB BENLOUALI, ARIANNA SPIRONELLO, ADELE ZAMARIAN 53

FLOATING PLATFORMS group 12 Venice, Italy 2030

ALICE BASSI, VITTORIA GAMBATO, TOMMASO SCALABRIN, GIUSEPPE BAGNI 54

SQUAT OF THE HISTORICAL COURTYARDS OF VENICE group 13 Venice 2022

MARTINA BIANCATO, FRANCESCO PIEROPAN, MARTA PUPELLA, MARTINA QUAGGIOTTO, DIEGO SPIRANDELLI 55

THIS.ORDER : HYBRID BUILDINGS FOR THE CITY group 14 Venice 2049

IDA DI LEO, RICCARDO FACCO, GIORGIA FERRUCCI, LEONARDO GRIGGIO, ALESSIA VAROTTO, NICHOLAS ZAMBON 56

FOR A FUTURE GROWTH THROUGH THE LAGOON group 15 Venezia 2120ca

FRANCESCA ALFANO, ENRICO BACCICHETTO, FILIPPO BARBIERO, FRANCESCO DE LUCA, LEONARDO SILVERA 57

A NEW WALKWAY FOR VENICE group 16 Venezia 2150

NICOLÒ BRAGA, GIADA BRAGGION, MASSIMILIANO COPPO, MATTIA PELLIZZER 58

MANHATTAN IN VENICE group 17 Tronchetto island, Venezia 2072

GRETA DECARLI, MARCO GENTILINI, RACHELE LANCINI, ALICE MARTA, PAOLO NICOSIA 59

architectural glossary: vertical revolution 1 everything is disneyland 2 exhibition park 3 urban farming 4 private\common space 5 the new way 6 shifting the city 7 diagonal outlines 8 multiple sockets 9 the usefulness of utopia 10 linear garden 11 new horizons 12

1 vertical revolution : or how best to optimise space. 2 everything is disneyland : or everything can be disneyland if nothing is serious. 3 exhibition park : or nostalgic is the new modern. 4 urban farming : or consumption follows production. 5 green net : or what matters is the journey. 6 the new way : or walking where (almost) no one has walked before . 7 shifting the city : or facing reality. 8 diagonal outlines : or using the water. 9 multiple sockets : or many, similar but not the same. 10 the usefulness of utopia : or simply thinking big. 11 linear garden : or wrapping the present with green paper. 12 new horizons : or scientific revolution. 60

sharing the private 13 necessarily evil 14 humid is the new cool 15 catwalk 16 a step beyond tradition 17

13 sharing the private : or enough is enough. 14 necessarily evil : or the need for something that clashes with the scenography . 15 humid is the new cool : or the ultimate sense of adaption. 16 catwalk : or make a virtue out of necessity. 17 a step beyond tradition : or the basic need for a manhattan island. 61

student list : group 1 Stella Anese, Emma Ascenzi, Iryna Dzundra, Oleksandra Korzhavina, Matteo Scarduelli

group 14 Ida Di Leo, Riccardo Facco, Giorgia Ferrucci, Leonardo Griggio, Alessia Varotto, Nicholas Zambon

group 2 Roxana Bonca, Martina Degrati, Marta Guzzon, Angelica Mion, Soufian Nazarin

group 15 Francesca Alfano, Enrico Baccichetto, Filippo Barbiero, Francesco De Luca, Leonardo Silvera

group 3 Syria Buso, Alberto Flaminio, Giorgia Di Natale, Massimiliano Pasquali, Matteo Rigato

group 16 Nicolò Braga, Giada Braggion, Massimiliano Coppo, Mattia Pellizzer

group 4 Caterina Bortoletto, Francesca Brigato, Sorana Matei, Ludovica Rigo

group 17 Greta Decarli, Marco Gentilini, Rachele Lancini, Alice Marta, Paolo Nicosia

group 5 Matteo Abate, Thomas Amadio, Simone Battistel, Chiara Cataldo, Vincenzo Ferri group 6 Beatrice Cavalcante, Chiara Chierico, Veronica Di Odoardo, Thomas Di Giovanni, Giacomo Faralli group 7 Paolo Di Micco, Francesca Dotti, Alberto Ottaviani, Ilaria Signorini, Laura Soardo group 8 Eleonora Curcio, Lodovico Falomo, Maria Pia Imbesi, Edoardo Mattiuzzi group 9 Camilla Campaci, Camilla D’Alò, Gabriel Croce, Eva Ganzitti, Sila Naz Bolu group 10 Alessandro Bologna, Edoardo Canton, Alessio Fregonese, Edoardo Valvasori group 11 Gaia Bellotto, Ayoub Benlouali, Arianna Spironello, Adele Zamarian group 12 Alice Bassi, Vittoria Gambato, Tommaso Scalabrin, Giuseppe Bagni group 13 Martina Biancato, Francesco Pieropan, Marta Pupella, Martina Quaggiotto, Diego Spirandelli 62