Memories of a journey

Academic project Venice, Italy

The Project is conceived in a Historical and Urban context to traditional Venetian Architecture, giving value to the existing, to create a dialogue between what was old and new additions. To achieve a space filled with memories of itself as a sort of Archive in an Archive, as one walks through the spaces. The ideology of the design was to emulate the typical Venetian street typology to connect the design with traditional attributes of Venetian street design like calle, ramo, strada that do not sacrifice functionalism to do so there by taking references from Le corbursier’s proposal for Venetian hospital he utilized the existing urban vocabulary to appear as a seamless continuation of the old city. The hospital was conceived as a network of interconnected modules clustered around a number of square courtyards, a clear analog for Venice’s traditional urban fabric with an overall intent that hospital would extend the urban fabric rather than interrupt it. The modules of different programs that comprised the archive design were to be almost identical, featuring storage, and consultation rooms facing onto corridors that connect to these squares or voids. The voids connect the services and vertical movements which give the effect of squaring the campo of the street. The corridors and voids now display the pattern of typical Venetian streets. The design introduces Altana which are structures located above the rooftops of Venice characterizing the architecture of the city, a sort of wooden terraces supported by pillars an element added to the design that celebrates the historical Strada campa which was access to walk visitors who visited Arsenale and also a means of connection between the street calle and the design through the context of urban fabric giving vertical access and oversight of the Lagoon area that will also contain people during water exhibition in the Lagoon.