STUDIO
SNØHETTA
Venice 23
Location
Venice, Italy
Year
2023
Program
Buildings for the Water’s Edge
Team Leaders
Jette Hoppe (Director, Snøhetta)
Gumji Kang (Architect, Snøhetta)
Jules Gallissian (Architect and Urbanist, Snøhetta)
Team
Nicolas Ladino (Syracuse University, USA)
Varouzhan Kochkoyan (Parsons School of Design, USA)
Katarzyna Hawliczek (Central Saint Martins, UK)
Kutay Koçtekin (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Shine Farahmand (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Acacia Li (SCI-Arc – Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA)
Sam Wilson (RMIT University, Australia)
Nicholas Axel Sugiarto (University of Melbourne, Australia)
JiangTian Wang (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Shaheen Bharwani (SCI-Arc – Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA)
Anastasia Stavrou (Manchester School of Architecture, UK)
Amelia Teigen (The Bartlett – University College London, UK)
Lauren Raleigh (University of Arizona, USA)
Orestis Hasikos (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Astrid John (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Chhay Kourng Lay (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Eda Kızıltaş (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Enis Koch (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Zartaj Kamran Khan (The American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Christina Garbi (The Bartlett – University College London, UK)
Project
Snøhetta is interested in exploring the past, present and future of space, and providing a place of connection in both a local and global context. In collaboration with TBA-21, we will seek to explore the intersection between art and architecture, and how architecture can be integrated with art. Further to this, the studio will consider Venice’s environmental and social fragility through a series of discussions and explorations.
We will explore an architectural response to the past; remembering the vital parts, whilst acknowledging the changing nature of the city to consider both local and global audiences. We will explore various techniques and methodologies to unveil the site’s conditions and understand various ways to gain new perspectives to the site context.
Architectural solutions to these will be generated by thinking about the future of production in Venice without being bound by scale, typology or whether the space should be new, existing or a transformation. Proposals will follow two basic constraints:
–The space should host a function that produces/manufactures a product/s or services.
–The space should give something back to the city
Is there a way to integrate a notion of industry and production in our cities? If so could that be a driver to create more awareness of the physical implications capitalism has on the built environment? Can these spaces be reintegrated to deliver a more diverse notion of city? Venice will act as a backdrop to mould and form part of the process, extending beyond our architectural discussions to imagine spaces for the future of production – Venice not as a museum city but as an ecosystem of functions.
Snøhetta (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsnøːˌhɛtɑ]) began as a collaborative architectural and landscape workshop, and has remained true to its trans-disciplinary way of thinking since its inception. Our work strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit, whether feral or human-made. Museums, products, reindeer observatories, graphics, landscapes and dollhouses get the same care and attention to purpose. Today, Snøhetta has grown to become an internationally renowned practice of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, product, graphic, digital design and art, with 280 employees of more than thirty different nationalities, and an equal gender distribution. Snøhetta is a place nobody is from, but anyone can go to.
Partner
TBA21–Academy
TBA21–Academy is TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary’s research center fostering a deeper relationship with the Ocean and other bodies of water through the lens of art to inspire care and action. Established in 2011, the Academy has since worked as an incubator for collaborative inquiry, artistic production, and environmental advocacy, catalyzing new forms of knowledge emerging from the exchanges between art, science, policy, and conservation. In 2019, TBA21–Academy opened Ocean Space in Venice, a planetary center that hosts exhibitions and public activities that accelerate critical ocean literacy through the arts. Building on TBA21–Academy’s expansive work, this embassy for the Ocean fosters wonder, engagement and collective action on the most pressing issues facing the Ocean today.
