STUDIO
ZHA
Venice 23
Location
Venice, Italy
Year
2023
Program
Stadium and Urban Regeneration
Team Leaders
Michele Pasca di Magliano (Director, ZHA)
Maria Tsironi (Senior Associate, ZHA)
Othmane Kandri (Designer, ZHA)
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 ZHA 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.
ZHA redefined architecture for the 21st century with a repertoire of projects that have captured imaginations across the globe. Creating buildings uniquely tailored to the communities they serve, ZHA has been awarded the highest honours from professional and academic institutions worldwide. Founded by Dame Zaha, ZHA is one of the world’s most innovative architectural studios—and has been for almost 50 years. These five decades of detailed research are inscribed within ZHA’s buildings which become more spatially inventive, more structurally efficient, more technologically advanced, and more environmentally considerate with each new design. ZHA’s 500 staff in five offices worldwide are currently developing projects in 34 countries across six continents—combining pioneering design solutions with ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction practices to meet the aspirations of each new generation.
