Venice 23

Location
Venice, Italy

Year
2023

Program
Stadium and Urban Regeneration

Team Leaders
Michele Pasca di Magliano (Director, Zaha Hadid Architects)
Maria Tsironi (Senior Associate, Zaha Hadid Architects)
Othmane Kandri (Designer, Zaha Hadid Architects)

Team
Malte Terboven (Hochschule Trier, Germany)
Raya Shehadeh (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Ivelina Fukarova (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Erika Grossek (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Monica Ko (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Divya Kohli (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Fatin Hameed (University of Virginia, USA)
Arnon van Embden Spanjaard (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Asena Aygun (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Masoud Alzenifeer (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Manuel Oberhofer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Project
Venice is nowadays a metropolitan city that requires contemporary infrastructures that keep the urban fabric alive and competitive with the terraferma.
The urbanisation in the lagoon is growing rapidly with a strong focus on sustainability and the importance of the city’s green and social spaces in this transformation process. It is precisely the combination of urban life, urban nature, water, parks and the history that many people appreciate about this context.
In respect of the area’s historical and natural qualities, and on the basis of a close dialogue with the area’s users and residents, we will work to realize an experimental vision: the new refurbishment of the Venezia Fc football club in Sant ‘Elena, where we can proudly enjoy a beautiful and ground-breaking new football stadium, as well as the other sport and civic functions around it.
Nowadays a stadium is a multipurpose building designed to maximise diverse revenue, generating opportunities for the club and create a visitor attraction that is also integrated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with the potential to have a net zero lifetime contribution to greenhouse, using sustainable materials, maximizing the prefabrication and integrating the project with green energy resources.  As well as increasing the local circular economy and create public spaces for the people living in Sant Elena.
The vision is to turn the stadiums into a new city centre where life takes place 24/7 throughout the year, that will serve as urban catalysts, improving the connectivity of each area with the surrounding city life, and facilitating new exchanges, dynamics and activities.
Venezia FC football team is in the process of thinking about a new stadium, so Zaha Hadid Architects studio would like to face the students with a real future challenge for the city of Venezia, rethinking the existing one as an opportunity to improve the branding of the club and the future image of the lagoon in the world.