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SEAN GODSELL ARCHITECTS
Melbourne, Australia
https://www.seangodsell.com/
Site
#1 – Arsenale (Castello)
Studio Leaders
Sean Godsell, Hayley Franklin
Snøhetta
Oslo, Norway
https://snohetta.com/
Site
#1 – Arsenale (Castello)
Studio Leaders
Kåre Krokene, Gumji Kang
MOS
New York, USA
https://www.mos.nyc/
Site
#1 – Arsenale (Castello)
Studio Leaders
Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, Ben Dooley
ARMATURE GLOBALE
Milan, Italy
http://armature.global/
Site
#1 – Arsenale (Castello)
Studio Leaders
Luigi Alberto Cippini, Alexei Haddad
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
London, United Kingdom
https://www.zaha-hadid.com/
Site
#2 – Ex ItalGAS (Santa Marta)
Studio Leaders
Michele Pasca di Magliano
UNSTUDIO
Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://www.unstudio.com/
Site
#2 – Ex ItalGAS (Santa Marta)
Studio Leader
Melinda Matuz, Alexander Kalachev, Caterina Micucci
SALOTTOBUONO
Milan, Italy
http://www.salottobuono.com/
#2 – Ex ItalGAS (Santa Marta)
Studio Leader
Matteo Ghidoni, Alessandro Pasero
Dogma
Brussels, Belgium
http://www.dogma.name/
Site
#3 – Ex Umberto I (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Martino Tattara, Celeste Tellarini
Mad Architects
Beijing, China
http://www.i-mad.com/
Site
#3 – Ex Umberto I (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Tiffany Dahlen, Kin Li, Rozita Kashirtseva
YOUNG & AYATA
New York, USA
http://www.young-ayata.com/
Site
#3 – Ex Umberto I (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Michael Young, Kutan Ayata
Dorte Mandrup
Copenhagen, Denmark
https://www.dortemandrup.dk/
Site
#3 – Ex Umberto I (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Kasper Pileman, Lars Almgren
SAUERBRUCH HUTTON
Berlin, Germany
http://www.sauerbruchhutton.de/en/
Site
#4 – Rari Nantes (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Juan Lucas Young, David Wegener
2050+
Milan, Italy
http://www.2050.plus/
Site
#4 – Rari Nantes (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Francesca Lantieri, Chiara Tomassi, Giacomo Ardesio
MOREAU KUSUNOKI
Paris, France
https://www.moreaukusunoki.com/
Site
#4 – Rari Nantes (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Nicolas Moreau, Hiroko Kusunoki, Angelica Giannoulatou
MONADNOCK
Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://monadnock.nl/en/
Site
#4 – Rari Nantes (Cannaregio)
Studio Leaders
Job Floris, Sandor Naus
MVRDV
Rotterdam, Netherlands
http://www.mvrdv.com
Site
#5 – Sant’Elena (Castello)
Studio Leaders
Lorenzo Mattozzi, Cosimo Scotucci
BOLLES+WILSON
Münster, Germany
http://www.bolles-wilson.com
Site
#5 – Sant’Elena (Castello)
Studio Leader
Peter Wilson
Baukuh
Milan, Italy
https://www.baukuh.it/
Site
#5 – Sant’Elena (Castello)
Studio Leaders
Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Silvia Lupi, Paolo Carpi
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten
Zürich, Switzerland
https://www.luetjens-padmanabhan.ch/
Site
#5 – Sant’Elena (Castello)
Studio Leaders
Oliver Lütjens, Thomas Padmanabhan
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MAP Studio
MAP studio is an international office for architecture, urbanism and design, which began in 2004 with the union of architects Francesco Magnani and Traudy Pelzel, who then founded their joint architectural firm in 2010, now located in the historic centre of Venice in a beautiful workspace on the second main floor of palazzo Foscarini in front of Carmini church.
MAP studio carries out assignments and combines public and private professional activities with research, focusing on architectural design and urban renewal as well as the transformation of existing buildings, interior design and exhibition design.
Completed works range from the noted renovation of the Porta Nuova Tower in the Venice Arsenale, which presents a benchmark building for the renovation design of historic buildings, to a custom set of exhibition designs, new buildings and several restorations.
Recently MAP studio completed the restoration of a Carlo Scarpa house in Venice. The story of this exceptional building site is documented in the book titled; The House on Grand Canal published by Electa.
Francesco Magnani graduated from IUAV in Venice in 1999. Since 2001 he has been an assistant professor at the same university where, in 2007-2008, he was also visiting professor for a design studio investigating architectural composition. In 2007 and 2008 Francesco was a visiting critic at École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles and in 2011 at Fakultät für Architektur, Hochschule München. He is regularly invited to give lectures on MAP studio’s research and projects at a variety of Italian and international architecture events.
Traudy Pelzel graduated from IUAV in Venice in 1994. From 1995 to 1997 she was part of the team that produced the New Masterplan of Venice under the supervision of Professor Leonardo Benevolo and was also at this time a researcher at the Eni-Mattei Foundation on the topic “Sustainable Venice: suggestions for the future — Urban Sustainability and Territorial Structure”. From 2002 to 2006 she was assistant professor at IUAV and is the recipient of a IUAV research grant titled “The Metropolitan City of Venice: Contemporary Landscapes”. She writes about architecture, landscape and infrastructure and is regularly invited to give lectures internationally.
Sean Godsell Architects
Sean Godsell was born in Melbourne in 1960. He graduated with First Class Honours from The University of Melbourne in 1984. He spent much of 1985 travelling in Japan and Europe and worked in London from 1986 to 1988 for Sir Denys Lasdun. In 1989 he returned to Melbourne and worked for The Hassell Group. In 1994 he formed Godsell Associates Pty Ltd Architects.
He obtained a Masters of Architecture degree from RMIT University in 1999 entitled ‘The Appropriateness of the Contemporary Australian Dwelling.’ His work has been published in the world’s leading Architectural journals including Architectural Review (UK) Architectural Record (USA) Domus (Italy) A+U (Japan) Casabella (Italy) GA Houses (Japan) Detail (Germany) Le Moniteur (France) and Architect (Portugal).
In July 2002 the influential English design magazine wallpaper listed him as one of ten people destined to ‘change the way we live’. He was the only Australian and the only Architect in the group.
He has lectured in the USA, UK, China, Japan, India, France, Italy and New Zealand as well as across Australia. He was a keynote speaker at the Alvar Aalto symposium in Finland in July 2006.
In July 2003 he received a Citation from the President of the American Institute of Architects for his work for the homeless. His Future Shack prototype was exhibited from May to October 2004 at the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York. In the same year the Italian publisher Electa published the monograph Sean Godsell: Works and Projects. Time Magazine named him in the ‘Who’s Who -The New Contemporaries’ section of their 2005 Style and Design supplement. He was the only Australian and the only Architect in the group of seven eminent designers.
He has received numerous local and international awards. In 2006 he received the Victorian Premier’s Design Award and the RAIA Robin Boyd Award and in 2007 he received the Cappochin residential architecture award in Italy and a Chicago Athenaeum award in the USA – all for St Andrew’s Beach House and in 2008 he was a finalist in the wallpaper* International Design Awards and a recipient of his second AIA Record Houses Award for Excellence in the USA for Glenburn House. In 2008 noted architectural historian and Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Kenneth Frampton nominated him for the inaugural BSI Swiss Architecture Award for architects under the age of 50 and his work was exhibited in both the Milan Triennale and Venice Biennale in the same year. In 2010 the prototype of the RMIT design Hub façade was exhibited in Gallery MA in Tokyo before being transported in 2011 to its now permanent home at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2012 he was shortlisted to design the new Australian Pavilion in Venice. In 2013 he received the RAIA Victorian Medal and William Wardell Awards for the RMIT Design Hub and the Harold Desbrowe Annear award for the Edward St House.
In January 2013 the Spanish publication El Croquis published the monograph Sean Godsell – Tough Subtlety which includes an essay by Juhani Pallasmaa. In 2013 and 2014 he was visiting professor at the IUAV WAVE workshop in Venice and delivered the UNESCO chair open lecture in Mantova, Italy.
In 2015 he was shortlisted for the $450million Sydney Modern project at the Art Gallery of NSW and in 2016 was shortlisted for the National Conservatory at the National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. He received the 2016 DETAIL Prize in Germany for the 2014 M Pavilion.
In 2018 he received a Papal Silver Medal for his Vatican Chapel on the island of S Giorgio Maggiore in Venice for the 2018 Architectural Biennale. In October 2018 he will deliver a keynote lecture ‘The modern house’ at Grace Farms in Connecticut in the USA. Thames and Hudson are currently producing a monograph scheduled for release in October 2019.
Sean Godsell & Hayley Franklin
Directors
Sean Godsell B.Arch (Hons) U of Melb M.Arch RMIT FRAIA RIBA Sean Godsell was born in Melbourne, Australia. He founded Sean Godsell Architects in 1994. His work has been published in the world’s leading architectural journals and he has lectured and exhibited in the USA, UK, China, Japan, India, France, Finland, Germany, Italy and New Zealand as well as across Australia
Hayley Franklin B. Arch (Hons) RMIT FRAIA Hayley was born in Melbourne in 1973 and graduated from RMIT in 1999. She has travelled to Europe, UK, USA, Canada, Japan and Borneo. Hayley joined Sean Godsell Architects as a student in 1997 and has been directly involved in the delivery of many award winning projects. She is an RAIA National Practice Committee Member, a former RAIA Victorian Chapter Practice Committee member and current ARBV examiner.
Snøhetta
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.
Kåre Krokene
Partner, Managing Director
Kaare has extensive experience working on significant projects both in his native Norway and in Australia, in particular Adelaide. As Snøhetta Partner and Managing Director of Snøhetta Studio Australasia, he is responsible for a number of projects across the Australasian region including Heysen Gallery, Melbourne University, Fishermans Bend Stage 1 and The Maltings. Kaare is a member of the Office for Design and Architecture South Australia’s Design Review Panel.
Gumji Kang
Architect, Project Leader
Gumji is a Korean-Australian Architect who was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. Gumji’s passion lies in urban design and public architecture that stitch together the natural system, public realm and city. She is also AIA Victorian Chapter Councillor, co-chair of Emerging Architects and Graduate Network (EmAGN) of Victorian Chapter, co-chair of Research In Architecture forum, and member of Education committee of Australian Institute of Architects.
MOS
MOS is a Harlem, New York–based architecture studio founded by principals Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2005. Working across North America, Europe, and Asia, their architecture and design projects include private residences, multi-family housing to master planning, educational institutions, collaborative art installations, exhibition design, gallery spaces, cultural buildings, interactive work spaces, co-working spaces and furniture.
Michael Meredith
Co-Founder
Along with his partner, Hilary Sample, Michael Meredith is a principal of MOS, an internationally recognized architecture practice based in New York. Meredith is Associate Dean at Princeton University’s School of Architecture and previously taught at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship, and the University of Toronto. His writing has been published in Artforum, Log, Perspecta, Praxis, Domus, and Harvard Design Magazine.
Hilary Sample
Co-Founder
Hilary Sample is the IDC Professor of Housing Design and Sequence Director of the Core Architecture Studios at GSAPP, and Co-Founder of the New York-based architecture and design studio MOS. She recently published Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press, 2016) and has taught at Columbia GSAPP, Harvard GSD, Yale SoA, and the University of Toronto. Sample has held the John G. Williams Teaching Chair at the University of Arkansas and the Reyner Banham Chair at the State University of Buffalo. She, along with Michael Meredith, is a recipient of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum’s National Design Award in Architecture (2015) and the United States Artists Award (2020).
Ben Dooley
Designer
Ben Dooley is a designer at MOS. His writing has appeared in publications including Log, Rumor, Disc, The New York Review of Architecture, and See/Saw, which he is founding editor of.
Armature Globale
Armature Globale is an emerging European Architecture practice. The studio gathers young professionals and divergent practitioners with a focus on experimental architecture and urbanism. Founded by Luigi Alberto Cippini in 2016, Armature Globale has expanded its reach to provide non-linear solutions to cultural buildings, cinemas and theatres, living units and cross-disciplinary typologies.
Luigi Alberto Cippini
Director
Luigi Alberto Cippini (b1987) is an architect and Director of Armature Globale
Alexei Haddad
Architect
Alexei Haddad (b1991) is an architect working with Armature Globale and USA
Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects work at all scales and in all sectors, creating transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces that work in synchronicity with their surroundings.
Michele Pasca di Magliano joined Zaha Hadid Architects in 2004, since then he has led several competition winning schemes including the Glasgow Riverside Museum in Scotland, the CMA CGM Headquarters in Marseilles and three super tall towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Michele was Project Director for d’Leedon residential towers in Singapore, 600 Collins Street, Melbourne and the Morpheus Hotel in Macau. Currently, Michele is leading a number of projects, including: New Science Museum in Singapore, Unicorn Island in Chengdu, Lakeside Unicorn Campus in Chongqing and CECEP Offices in Shanghai.
Michele Pasca di Magliano
Director
UNSTUDIO
UNStudio, founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, is an international network specialising in architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban development and infrastructural projects. With six full-service international offices in Amsterdam, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Dubai and Melbourne and over 200 employees from 27 countries.
UNStudio’s mission is to design for lasting impact and contribute to the societal challenges of urbanisation, climate change, ageing populations and socioeconomic inequality. Driven by purpose and focused on solutions, we create value by designing for the implications of these megatrends on our built environment. Designs that make our lives healthier, have little impact on the planet, but a lasting impact on our cities – and people.
Future-proofing the future
As what we design today is normally built in three to five years’ time, we’re used to working with the future in mind – but that’s changing faster than ever before. Even the most accurate predictions can be made redundant by a sudden advance in technology or global phenomena. To ensure we don’t waste materials or make investments that are no longer sustainable or appropriate in today’s world, we develop strategies that not only anticipate the future, but possible changes to that future as well.
UNStudio is committed to the promotion and practice of sustainable design, with environmental issues like social and ecological sustainability being considered right from the start of a project. And we are dedicated to making every project both financially and socially feasible, a combination that we call ‘attainable design’. Our sights are set on creating and contributing to a greener, healthier and smarter built environment so that users can focus more on fostering stronger future communities. We believe that the key to ‘future-proofing the future’ is knowledge. For the last decade, we have focused on expanding our understanding of trends and practices in architecture and beyond.
Melinda Matuz
Senior Architect & Associate
Melinda Matuz is a Senior Architect and Associate at UNStudio. Melinda is an all-round architect specialized in narrative design and storytelling, with a special focus on design affecting people’s behavior, emotional engagement with architecture and perception of space. She has been working on and leading a wide range of projects from interior design to master planning.
She received her Master of Science in Architecture Degree in 2005 from Budapest University of Technology, after that she has been researching the contradictions of social awareness in contemporary architecture at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Before joining UNStudio, she worked as a project leader on several large scale architectural projects in Hungary.
Melinda has extensive experience in designing and managing complex projects, with numerous stakeholders involved, leading the design team through all stages from concept to construction. She has thorough knowledge of works space design, interior design and heritage refurbishment as well.
Besides these, she spent years exploring the consequences of urban growth and digital development working on the Reorient – Migrating Architectures exhibition for the Venice Architectural Biennale and a series of kinetic sound installations, connecting low tech to digital searching for the meaning of art expressed through social media.
Alexander Kalachev
Senior Architect & Associate
Alexandr Kalachev is a Senior Architect and Associate at UNStudio. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School (DIA) and worked at a number of international firms before joining UNStudio in 2014.
Alexandr is a lead architect and project manager with extensive knowledge of computational design, robotics and digital fabrication. He has been working on, and leading various international project at UNStudio. His projects explore multiple scales and functions varying from infrastructure to urban design. He has been part of many key projects of UNStudio, including the Kutaisi International Airport, Beethoven Concert Hall in Bonn, Germany and the Theatre on the Parade in Den Bosch, The Netherlands.
Caterina Micucci
Architect & Interior Architect
Caterina Micucci is an Architect and Interior Architect at UNStudio. She graduated from the Architecture University of Venice (IUAV) in 2010 and received her Ph.D in 2015.
Prior to joining UNStudio in 2018, Caterina has participated in a number of projects of varying scale and typology such as residential, cultural, retails, mixed use mainly focused in interior developments. She has extensive experience in office and residential projects, with a clear understanding of international branding and its translation to architecture.
At UNStudio, Caterina has been involved in many architectural design processes, and plays and intensive role on projects with a strong focus on interior design and branding. She is adept in handling the design process from concept to detail development, including organizational and technical aspects, communication with consultants and manufacturers throughout the comprehensive project design.
SALOTTOBUONO
Salottobuono produces architecture in any possible form: research, drawing, printed matter, temporary installations and actual buildings.
Matteo Ghidoni is an architect, editor and publisher based in Milan. He obtained his Master Degree in architecture at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice in 2002.
He was a founding partner of the research agency Multiplicity from 2002 to 2006. His work with Multiplicity was exhibited at Kunstwerke in Berlin (2003), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2003), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2004) and the Beijing Biennial (2004).
Ghidoni founded the architectural office Salottobuono in 2005. Salottobuono has served as editor of the “Instructions and Manuals” section of Abitare magazine (2007-10) and as creative director of Domus magazine (2011, 2012). The office has taken part in the Venice Biennale (2008, 2012, 2014), and designed the Italian Pavilion in 2010. Salottobuono published the “Manual of Decolonization” (2010) and “Fundamental Acts” (2016). Matteo Ghidoni has been a guest professor at the Istituto Universitario d’Architettura di Venezia (Venice) in the Faculty of Architecture, the Politecnico in Milan, the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotà. He has given guest lectures at several schools and institutions including the Berlage Institute, Berkeley, and Columbia University.
In 2014 he has been invited by Rem Koolhaas – director of the Venice Biennale of Architecture – to participate with an independent research project titled “Ground Floor Crisis” in the Monditalia section at the Arsenale. In the same year he has also been selected through an international call for fellowships to take the role of Principal at OfficeUS: the national participation of US Pavilion in the 2014 Venice Biennale.
Among the recent projects designed and built by Ghidoni there are the winning proposal for a temporary restaurant for the 25th Biennale Interieur in Kortrjik, Belgium (2016), the pavilion for the Mèxtropoli Festival in Mexico City (2017), the e-flux pavilion for the Milano ArchWeek (2018), the new Urban Center for the city of Milan, hosted in the Triennale palazzo dell’Arte (2019) and the new addition to the Venice Casino in Ca’ Noghera (2020).
Since 2010, he has been co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of San Rocco, an independent international publication about architecture. The editors of San Rocco magazine were received the Icon Award in 2012 as the best emerging architecture practice. In 2013 the magazine also received a Grant to Organizations from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Alessandro Pasero (Rome, 1997) studied at Politecnico di Milano and KU Leuven.
He collaborates with the architectural office Salottobuono while working as a teaching assistant at the faculty of Architecture of Genoa.
He is currently working on his master thesis at Politecnico di Milano supervised by Matilde Cassani. His work investigates the relationship between temporary architecture and contemporary public space.
Matteo Ghidoni
Principal
Alessandro Pasero
Architect
DOGMA
Dogma was founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara. From the beginning of its activities, Dogma has worked on the relationship between architecture and the city by focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects. Dogma is active in offering consultancies to municipalities and agencies concerned with urban planning and architectural issues. Parallel to the design projects, the members of Dogma have intensely engaged with teaching, writing, and research, activities that have been an integral part of the office’s engagement with architecture. In the last years, Dogma has been working on a research by design trajectory that focuses on domestic space and its potential for transformation. This work, made of studies and projects, has been exhibited at different venues among which the Tallinn Architectural Biennale (2014), the HKW Berlin (2015), the Biennale di Venezia (2016), the Chicago Architectural Biennial (2017), and the London Design Museum (2018). In 2006, Dogma has won the 1st Iakov Chernikhov Prize for the best emerging architectural practice.
Martino Tattara
Founder
Martino Tattara, founder of Dogma together with Pier Vittorio Aureli, is Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven. He studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia IUAV and at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. His main theoretical interest is the relationship between architecture and large-scale urban design.
Celeste Tellarini
Senior Architect
Celeste Tellarini graduated in Architecture and Urban Design (M.Sc.) from the Politecnico di Milano in 2020. In 2019 she joined the architecture office Dogma in Brussels, with which she is collaborating on a series of projects spanning from research to practice.
Since 2018 Celeste meticulously documents ultraordinariness through ‘microelements’ and ‘details of super ordinary places’: an obsessive photographic series shared daily over social medias. Her interest lies on the definition of a non-conforming perception of the realm, far from labels, binary oppositions and strict definitions.
MAD Architects
Founded by Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects is led by Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, and Yosuke Hayano. It is committed to developing futuristic, organic, technologically advanced designs that embody a contemporary interpretation of the Eastern affinity for nature. With a vision for the city of the future based in the spiritual and emotional needs of residents, MAD endeavors to create a balance between humanity, the city, and the environment.
MAD’s projects encompass urban planning, urban complexes, municipal buildings, museums, theaters, concert halls, and housing, as well as art and design. Their projects are located in China, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Tiffany Dahlen
Associate Partner
Tiffany Dahlen is an Associate Partner at MAD Architect’s Beijing studio. She is an American-born architect who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and joined MAD in 2010. Leading projects and competitions both in China and abroad, she has experience with large scale projects in dense urban conditions that aim to emulate MAD’s philosophy of the Shan-Shui city and evoke the emotional connection of humanity to nature.
She currently leads several projects in MAD, including Shenzhen Bay Culture Park – the new landmark in Shenzhen. She has worked on a number of MAD’s iconic projects including the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, Melbourne Southbank competition, Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, Chaoyang Park Plaza in Beijing, Huangshan Mountain Village, and Xinhee Design Center in Xiamen. She has also been involved in the realization of several MAD art projects, including: “Moon Landscape” for Swarovski and the “Vertu Mobile Pavilion”.
Kin Li
Associate Partner
Kin Li is a Hong Kong born architect holding a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His highly sensitive touch in design and outstanding ability in understanding art, as well as skills applying various design software, provide him a solid base to fully understand and translate MAD’s design philosophy and language into complex 3-D models for teams to further develop. After joining MAD in 2011, Kin served as the key designer and has participated in multiple iconic projects that synchronized MAD’s design philosophy, including Pingtan Art Museum, Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, Chaoyang Park Plaza, Lucas narrative Art Museum and Jiaxing Civic Center.
Rozita Kashirtseva
Architect
Rozita is an architect and visual artist. She was trained as an architect at the Moscow Institute of Architecture in Russia and The Fontainebleau Schools of Music and Fine Arts in France.
She has been working at MAD Architects in Beijing for 5 years on 40+ projects around the Globe including Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (Los Angeles), UNIC, Mirage and Hainan Science and Technology Museum.
YOUNG & AYATA
Young & Ayata formed a partnership in New York in 2008 to explore the conceptual and aesthetic possibilities of architecture and urbanism. The practice is dedicated to both built commissions and experimental research and views the realities of contemporary building as provocations for explorations in architectural form, material, and technology.
Michael Young is an Assistant Professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union and the recipient of the 2019-2020 Rome Prize from the American Academy.
Kutan Ayata is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at UCLA, where he also serves as the Director of Master of Architecture Program.
Michael Young & Kutan Ayata
Co-Founders & Directors
Dorte Mandrup
Dorte Mandrup is a Danish architecture studio specialized in working with irreplaceable places – landscapes, cultures, stories- This is an exhilarating struggle – a negotiation between place, history, culture and local identity with the architect brought in to create new relevance. The studio was founded in Copenhagen in 1999. Founder and creative director Dorte Mandrup still works hands-on and inspires her international team of 75 dedicated employees. All driven by a devout belief in the possibilities of contemporary architecture and an experimental curiosity that insists on outstanding craftmanship.
Kasper Pilemand is partner at Dorte Mandrup with responsibility for public and cultural projects. He has overseen many of the studio’s important and award winning projects, including the Icefjord Centre, the Wadden Sea Centre, Valencia and Jægersborg Water Tower. With his extensive experience as design and project manager he works strategically and analytically with the specific needs of the site, program, and client. Kasper has a talent for emphasizing the essential details that contribute to the translation of the overall design into the tactile qualities of the single details.
Lars Johan Almgren completed his architectural degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 2013 and joined Dorte Mandrup in 2016. With his abstract and artistic mindset, he plays a key role in the competition phase of a project – bringing form and concept to life. He has an unmistakable flair for aesthetics, experimental curiosity, and a deep contextual understanding, exemplified in a wide range of high-profile projects, spanning across scale and borders. An important member of the studio, Lars has been worked on the development of projects like The Whale, the Exile Museum and the conceptualization of the exhibition Conditions at the Architecture Biennale 2018.
Kasper Pileman
Partner, Senior Architect
Lars Almgren
Senior Architect
SAUERBRUCH HUTTON
Sauerbruch Hutton realise individual and sustainable solutions for architectural projects, urban master plans, interiors, furniture and exhibitions. Pleasure in the sensual handling of space and material, curiosity for technical and spatial innovation as well as the responsible use of all kinds of existing resources constitute the focus of our architectural practice. Sauerbruch Hutton associate their work with the dual technical-cultural mission to improve the quality of life of prospective users and future generations in general, and so to contribute to public life and the well-being of the city.
Juan Lucas Young graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo in 1989.
He joined Sauerbruch Hutton in 1990. He has been a partner and managing director in the office since 1999 and he is responsible for the overall management of the office and all projects. Juan Lucas lectures at universities and regularly attends congresses and conferences worldwide.
David Wegener studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the ETSAB in Barcelona. From 1998 to 2000 he worked for KPMG Consulting and thyssenkrupp AG, among others.
Since 2001, he has been project manager at Sauerbruch Hutton, where he has supervised major projects mainly in the fields of cultural, office and interior design. He regularly gives guest lectures at universities and symposia. David has been an associate and member of the managing board since 2010. He became a partner in 2020.
Juan Lucas Young
Partner & Director
David Wegener
Partner
2050+
2050+ is an interdisciplinary agency working across design, technology, the environment, and politics.
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli
Founder / Director
Francesca Lantieri
Senior Architect
Chiara Tomassi
Senior Architect
Giacomo Ardesio
Senior Architect
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli is an architect and curator based in Milan. He is the founder of the interdisciplinary agency 2050+ whose work moves across technology, environment, politics and design. Ippolito most recently curated Open, the Russian Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, and co-edited the accompanying collection Voices (Towards Other Institutions), which puts forward alternative forms of constituencies and collectiveness. In 2018 He co-curated Manifesta’s 12th edition, The Planetary Garden: Cultivating Coexistence, taking place in Palermo. Between 2007 and 2020 he has worked as an architect and partner at OMA/AMO, where his work focused on preservation, scenography and curation. Ippolito has been teaching at the Royal College of Arts since 2017.
Francesca Lantieri is an Italian architect and designer based in Milan. She works for 2050+ since the agency was founded in 2020 where she’s been involved in projects such as La Rinascente building renovation in Rome, the staging for the UNESCO Pavilion during the Venice Biennale, a scenography and exhibition design within the new Oslo National Museum. Francesca developed a multi-cultural and multidisciplinary approach towards architecture working for international practices. From 2015 till 2019, she worked as an architect at OMA in Rotterdam ,between 2013 and 2014 for SANAA in Tokyo and sporadically with 51N4E in Brussels, Storefront in New York and Elding Oscarson in Stockholm. During these collaborations she worked on different scales projects, from temporary exhibitions and scenography to architectural developments and preservations. Francesca holds a Master Degree in Architecture from the DIA-Bauhaus in Dessau. She is a tutor at the MadeLabs program in Siracusa.
Chiara Tomassi is an Italian architect based in Milan. She’s part of the interdisciplinary agency 2050+ after being at MVRDV in Rotterdam, and in offices based in London, Milan, Bologna and Rome where she worked on and led several projects with different programs, from small to large scale interventions. In 2050+ she’s been working on the refurbishment of La Rinascente building in Rome, the Russian Pavilion renovation in Venice, the SUNNEI Milan fashion show among the others. Being involved in various projects, from urban strategies to detail design phases, in complex and articulated processes, gave her a transversal perspective towards architecture and the variability of aspects unfolding in this practice. Chiara has been assistant teacher at the Roma Tre University in Rome and has been tutoring for several international design workshops held by Roma Tre University.
Giacomo Ardesio is an architect based in Milan. Since 2020 he works with the interdisciplinary agency 2050+, where, among other projects, he is engaged in the refurbishment of La Rinascente – Piazza Fiume in Rome and the curation of the Russian Federation Pavilion. Between 2014 and 2019, Giacomo worked for OMA and AMO, its think-tank branch, in Rotterdam, where he was involved in a wide range of projects, from temporary installations and exhibitions to research and preservation. Giacomo is one of the five members of Fosbury Architecture, an Italian collective of architectural design and research, whose work has been published internationally and included in several exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Giacomo holds a Master of Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano. He has been teaching at the Architectural Association in London and the Domus Academy in Milan.
MOREAU KUSUNOKI
The architecture of Moreau Kusunoki is rooted in the cultural duality of their origins. This creative reconciliation is expressed in the constant interplay of scales in space and time, in a gentle oscillation between reason and intuition. They design in the belief that architecture is best conceived in reserve and introspection, allowing for the emergence of poetic visions towards an architectural ‘in-between’: undefined spaces creating the potential for new meaning and personal experiences through user appropriation.
Nicolas Moreau
Co-Director
A founding partner of Moreau Kusunoki, Nicolas Moreau obtained an M.Arch (D.P.L.G.) at ENSA Paris-Belleville in 2003. He started his career at SANAA in Tokyo, Japan, and later continued at Kengo Kuma and Associates, Tokyo. In 2008, he co-founded Kuma and Associates Europe in Paris, where he held the position of CEO, Licence Holder and Project Lead. In 2011, he founded Moreau Kusunoki, together with Hiroko Kusunoki.
Throughout his career, Nicolas has worked on complex projects of different scales and contexts, from new construction to projects within heritage fabric and culturally significant settings. Owing to his familiarity with the multi-layered European condition, he can seamlessly navigate through multiple constraints and diverging stakeholder interests, and lead the design towards a reconciliatory approach.
Hiroko Kusunoki
Co-Director
A founding partner of Moreau Kusunoki, Hiroko Kusunoki obtained an M.Arch/M.Eng. at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo in 2002, and an M.Arch (D.E.) at ENSA Paris-Belleville. Her career commenced at Shigeru Ban Architects in Tokyo, before establishing Moreau Kusunoki with Nicolas Moreau in 2011. Hiroko and Nicolas have lectured on the work of Moreau Kusunoki in Europe, North America, India, Australia and Japan.
Hiroko Kusunoki has been acting as design decision-maker for the office, together with Nicolas Moreau. She gives conceptual clarity and powerful poetic narratives to projects by bringing forward the notion of ‘in-between’ among multiple focuses. Across large scales and diverse programming, she skillfully integrates the detail and the sensorial aspect, contributing to exceptional designs and unique experiences.
Angelica Giannoulatou
Lead Architect
A Lead Architect at Moreau Kusunoki, Angelica Giannoulatou obtained an M.Arch from the NTU Athens , an MsAAD from Columbia University (NYC), and an MsProject Management. Her early career started at wHY (NYC) until 2018, and she joined Moreau Kusunoki (Paris) in 2019. Having worked on projects of different scales in Europe and the US, with a focus on cultural and museum buildings, Angelica has experience with complex programs, bridging multiple constraints and synthesizing ideas to achieve the design intent. She has a deep understanding of the concept making methodology of Moreau Kusunoki, and works closely with the Directors to define and guide the global vision and direction of the practice, with a particular focus on new opportunities aligning with its philosophy, on communications and editions.
MONADNOK
Monadnock is a Rotterdam-based practice producing architecture. Monadnock designs, researches, writes and produces discourse in the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior and staging, shifting in scale between the space of the city and the street to the scale of the interior. Monadnock creates contemporary buildings that embed architecture in the cultural production of their generation as a whole. By examining key themes such as the contemporary and tradition, convention and banality, constructive logic and illusionary representation, Monadnock aims for an architecture that combines beauty, efficiency and the transfer of architectural knowledge.
Monadnock was founded in 2006 by Job Floris and Sandor Naus. Both trained as interior– and furniture designer during their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts St. Joost in Breda (NL) and subsequently graduated from the Academy for Architecture and Urbanism in Rotterdam and Tilburg. Monadnock received international attention and awards for realizing tailor-made buildings, many of which are public. These include a beach pavilion on the River Maas, a huge installation called ‘Make No Little Plans’, and a Landmark – or viewing tower – for the municipality of Nieuw Bergen (NL). The Park Pavilion, a visitors centre for the largest Dutch National Park and the Atlas House a compact towerhouse. Currently, Monadnock is involved in projects on several scales, of which a substantial amount of housing.
Job Floris & Sandor Naus
Co-Founders & Architects
MVRDV
MVRDV was founded in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the company has a global scope, providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues in all regions of the world. The results are exemplary, outspoken projects that enable cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future. The work of MVRDV is exhibited and published worldwide and has received numerous international awards. Three hundred and fifty architects, designers and urbanists develop projects in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative design process that involves rigorous technical and creative investigation.
Lorenzo Mattozzi
Senior Project Leader
Lorenzo Mattozzi was born in Venice, Italy, he is an architect with experiences in Italy, Denmark, Brazil and the Netherlands. In his work, he focuses on a holistic approach where architecture, structure and detail belong to the same concept. He has a keen interest in product design, graphics and written storytelling. He currently lives in Rotterdam where he works at MVRDV.
Cosimo Scotucci
Project Leader
Cosimo Scotucci was born in Monterubbiano, Italy, he is an architect with experiences in Italy, Denmark, France and the Netherlands. In his work, he aims at architecture and design focused on people where sustainability is intertwined with quality of living. He has his own practice where he focuses on art and architecture. He currently lives in Rotterdam where he works at MVRDV.
BOLLES+WILSON
BOLLES+WILSON are internationally known for a consistently high architectural quality in a wide range of projects, each an individual solution developed with careful consideration to the cultural and the urbanistic context, which it must enhance.
The program, whether cultural, Residential/Office, Retail/Entertainment, public use or administrational is always the generator of the building form. Their philosophy is to ennoble the practical necessities and the purpose a building must serve through creative invention. Ultimately the technical, the programmatic as well as issues of sustainability must be simply and elegantly synthesized as architecture and as spaces with a distinctive and unique character.
BOLLES+WILSON are based in Germany but operate internationally with projects in Albania, Australia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In each location they collaborate intensively with local partners.
Peter Wilson
Founder
BAUKUH
baukuh produces architecture. Designs are independent of personal taste. No member of baukuh is ever individually responsible for any single project, each of which is the product of the office as a whole. Working without a hierarchical structure or a stylistic dogma, baukuh produces architecture out of a rational and explicit design process. This process is based on a critical understanding of the architecture of the past. The knowledge encoded in the architecture of the past is public, and starting from this public knowledge, any architectural problem can be solved.
Pier Paolo Tamburelli (Tortona, 1976) studied at the University of Genoa and at the Berlage Institute Rotterdam. Tamburelli took part in the exhibition “Mutations” (2000), collaborated with “Domus” form 2004 to 2007 and in 2010 founded the magazine “San Rocco”. Tamburelli has taught at the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, TUM Munich, Harvard GSD, FAUP Porto, UIC Chicago, and he is currently a professor at TU Vienna. Tamburelli was nominated for the Harvard Wheelwright Prize 2016 and has been a member of the jury of the XVI Venice Architecture Biennale.
Paolo Carpi (Brescia, 1974) studied architecture at the IUAV Venice. Carpi holds a PhD in architectural design and taught at the University of Genoa and at various international workshops throughout Europe. He was one of the founders and editors of the architectural magazine “San Rocco”.
Silvia Lupi (La Spezia, 1973) studied at the University of Genoa. Lupi took part in the exhibition “Mutations” (2000) and from 2001 to 2002 she worked at Fraile-Revillo arquitectos, Madrid.
Paolo Carpi, Silvia Lupi, and Pier Paolo Tamburelli
Principals
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects
Oliver Lütjens (Zurich 1972) and Thomas Padmanabhan (Stuttgart 1970) established Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects in 2007 in Zurich. The practice’s recent work focuses on housing in the residential districts surrounding Zurich and Basel including the award-winning low rent Waldmeisterweg appartment building in Zurich and the Zwhatt Sufficency lighthouse project in Regensdorf. Further afield, they are currently working on the new residence of the Swiss ambassador in Algier and the new Swiss general consulate in Stuttgart. Oliver and Thomas have taught as assistants at ETH Zurich and as guest professors at TU Munich, EPF Lausanne and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Oliver Lütjens
Co-Founder & Director
Dipl. Arch. ETH SIA BSA
Date of birth: 7th December 1972
Place of birth: Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Citizen
Father of two children
Professional Experience
Since 2007 Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten, Zurich (founder and partner)
2006-2007 OMA / Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam
2004-2006 Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten, Zurich
2002-2004 Diener & Diener Architekten, Basel
Academic Experience
2020 Guest Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
2016-2017 Guest Professor, EPF Lausanne
07. 2017 Lecturer, Porto Academy Summer School, Porto
09. 2016 Lecturer, Architecture Foundation Master Class, Oxford
2015-2016 Guest Professor, TU Munich
09. 2014 Lecturer, San Rocco Summer School, Tirana
2011-2014 Senior assistant, Chair of Prof. Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
2007-2009 Assistant, Guest professorship Adam Caruso / Peter St John,
ETH Zurich
Board Memberships
Since 2018 Board member of the Federation of Swiss Architects FAS Zurich
Education
1994-2002 ETH Zurich, Diploma in Architecture, Chair of Prof. Hans Kollhoff
1997-1998 EPF Lausanne, Studio Prof. Giorgio Grassi
Thomas Padmanabhan
Co-Founder & Director
Dipl.-Ing. Arch, M.Arch II SIA BSA
Date of birth: 20th August 1970
Place of birth: Stuttgart, Gemany
Swiss and German Citizen
Married
Professional Experience
Since 2007 Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten, Zurich (founder and partner)
2003-2006 Diener & Diener Architekten, Basel
2002-2003 Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten, Zurich
2000-2001 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York
Academic Experience
2020 Guest Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
2016-2017 Guest Professor, EPF Lausanne
07. 2017 Lecturer, Porto Academy Summer School, Porto
09. 2016 Lecturer, Architecture Foundation Master Class, Oxford
2015-2016 Guest Professor, TU Munich
07. 2014 Lecturer, Genova Summer School 2014, Università di Genova
2006-2013 Assistant, ETH Zurich
1999-2000 Teaching Assistant Design first year, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Prof. David Lewis und Prof. Andrea Simitch
1998-1999 Teaching Assistant Drawing, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Prof. Laura Briggs und Prof. Arthur Ovaska
1995-1998 Teaching Assistant, RWTH Aachen
Chair for Visual Representation of Prof. Heiner Hoffmann
Education
1998-2000 Cornell University, Master of Architecture, M.Arch.II
Prof. Arthur Ovaska and Prof. Lee Hodgden
1992-1998 RWTH Aachen, Diploma, Prof. Volkwin Marg
1994-1995 Università di Roma « La Sapienza », Rome
Prof. Paolo Angeletti, Erasmus program
Sean Godsell Architects | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 5-7pm Melb |7-9am Venice | 2-4pm China | 1-3am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 6.40-6.50pm Melb |8.40-8.50am Venice | 3.40-3.50pm China | 2.40-2.50am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 5-5.30pm Melb |7-7.30am Venice | 2-2.30pm China | 1-1.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Venice has around 100 bell towers. The tallest (99m) is the Campanile di San Marco. Most are vertical, some lean a little. When viewed from a distance they dominate the topography of Venice. Lost in the labyrinth of bridges and canals though, the bell towers come and go, occasionally glimpsed or appearing suddenly and without warning, their scale surprising and their engineering, remarkable. Novices to Venice are tricked into thinking that they can navigate using the towers as markers! Lost fools! Few towers are accessible but those that are provide a different perspective of the city and this prize is well worth the palpitating climb.
There are other towers. In and around the Arsenale in the Castello precinct there are towers associated with ship building. The Porta Nuova tower was a 19th century mast manufacturing crane tower. The 2021 MPavilion architects MAP Studio converted this abandoned building into a small cultural centre that includes exhibition, conference and function facilities along with offices and access to a viewing terrace at the top of the tower. Using this project as a starting point, students are invited to design a companion tower – a contemporary vertical structure that works in tandem with the Porta Nuova tower to provide further exhibition and conference space, public amenities, a small café, an arts bookshop and public access to the top of the tower.
Snøhetta | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 5-7pm Melb |7-9am Venice | 2-4pm China | 1-3am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 7-7.10pm Melb |9-9.10am Venice | 4-4.10pm China | 3-3.10am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 5.30-6.00pm Melb |7.30-8.00am Venice | 2.30-3.00pm China | 1.30-2.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
“There is a glorious City in the Sea.
The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets,
Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed
Clings to the marble of her palaces.
No track of men, no footsteps to and fro,
Lead to her gates. The path lies o’er the Sea,
Invisible; and from the land we went,
As to a floating City – steering in,
And gliding up her streets as in a dream…”
– Samuel Rogers
VIEW TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE ARSENAL
Canaletto 1732
Snøhetta is interested in exploring the past, present and future of space, and providing a place of connection in both local and global contexts. Venice is a city that is distinctively authentic, and curiously exotic at the same time. Using the Arsenale as a testing ground, we would like to invite students to 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 without being bound by architectural typologies. Throughout the studio, the studio members’ own individual perspectives will mould and form part of the process, extending beyond our discussion of architectural discourses.
The studio will also consider Venice’s environmental and social fragility to inform the programme through a series of discussions and explorations. How does the ever changing seasonal condition inform our process and where does design follow?
Mos | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 5-7am Melb |7-9pm Venice | 2-4am China | 1-3pm New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6am Melb |7-8pm Venice | 2-3am China | 1-2pm New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6am Melb |7-8pm Venice | 2-3am China | 1-2pm New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio [] | WIP (1hr) | 5-6am Melb |7-8pm Venice | 2-3am China | 1-2pm New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6am Melb |7-8pm Venice | 2-3am China | 1-2pm New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6am Melb |7-8pm Venice | 2-3am China | 1-2pm New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 5-6am Melb |7-8pm Venice | 2-3am China | 1-2pm New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 5-5.30pm Melb |7-7.30am Venice | 2-2.30pm China | 1-1.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
A Health Clinic and Hostel
Description
Architecture’s engagement with public space is vital to a city’s health and well being. In Venice, its organization, pedestrian and public space seems to primarily result from an aggregation of housing, which form pedestrian streets and plazas, and stops at canals. This studio will examine architecture’s intersection with subjects of public health and housing. Using the current Venice Urban Photo Project exhibition, students will study the site’s building fabric to potentially be used towards adaptive reuse. Questioning housing and health through two programs of clinic and hostel, students will reimagine the Arsenale to address health and wellness. The studio will begin by analyzing the Lazzaretto Vecchio, and Ospedale SS Giovanni e Paolo and Scuola Grande di San Marco as found conditions, along with Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital, and try to reimagine them today in the Arsenale site, engaging with our contemporary culture, different programs and changing environmental conditions.
Readings:
https://www.palazzograssi.it/en/exhibitions/current/hypervenezia/
Hilary Sample, Imperfect Health
Hilary Sample, Maintenance Architecture
Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, Selected Works MOS
AADR book
https://www.mos.nyc/project/thoughts-walking-city
Armature Globale | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 7-9pm Melb |9-11am Venice | 4-6pm China | 3-5am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 6.50-7.00pm Melb |8.50-9.00am Venice | 3.50-4.00pm China | 2.50-3.00am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 5.30-6.00pm Melb | 7.30-8.00am Venice | 2.30-3.00pm China | 1.30-2.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Contemporary Venetian architectural narrative is far removed from its realist demands; the commercial and technical economies aggressively forming a new aesthetic apparatus. This contemporary framework defines Venice, absenting both platform and access. Typologically and programmatically indistinct, spaces work backward from economy, yield and universal trends as primary agents of developments. Architectural intelligence today brutally optimises its disciplinary assets to abandon predetermined categories of typology, program organisation and composition. The latter is what both architects and the public believe architecture’s primacy should contain.
Generic containers through both its reduction of typological competition and component efficiency has lately been situated, both academically and through practice, as architecture’s final lexicon of production. Its every generic feature is a form of adaptive control, engineered efforts and pain obsolete. Proprietary facade systems and laminated neutral surfaces dominate the majority of these architecture products though rarely designed by or for architecture. This final form, both culturally neutral and abundantly flexible, augments products and markets in charge of anesthetizing commercial, experimental and domestic architecture products.
The need to engage with this uneasy, and for some reason ignored, backwater is critical. The studio asks students to critically engage with these inputs through the shell; an architectural product central to the ‘field’. This challenge, that of architecture’s ability to aestheticize and reposition the most generic and multi-functional obediences, forms our goal; to place these inputs into direct contrast to redundant narratives of ‘site’ and wider urban narratives often ignoring the realism of economy, beauty and space
Luigi Alberto Cippini and Alexei Haddad
Zaha Hadid Architects | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 7-9pm Melb |9-11am Venice | 4-6pm China | 3-5am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 9.30-9.40pm Melb |11.30-11.40am Venice | 6.30-6.40pm China | 5.30-5.40am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 5-6pm Melb |7-8am Venice | 2-3pm China | 1-2am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 6-6.30pm Melb |8-8.30am Venice | 3-3.30pm China | 2-2.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
The City of Venice is a canvas to experiment with innovative solutions for post-industrial society. Venice has a wealth of history threatened by the modern world; can a city dominated by international tourism become a place of sustainable production beyond its tourism and seasonal cultural initiatives?
The site formerly accommodating the Officina Italgas is a unique opportunity to operate in a site close to the island’s connection to the main land. It is a fairly large and open site with a relatively small amount of existing historical buildings. Students will propose a new paradigm to answer to Venice’s needs, inject self-determination and energy into a city that suffers from a lack of a sustainable long-term living model: a new centre of production, agglomeration and collaboration for Venetians as well as visitors.
We will imagine new spaces within the site, relating to the existing and challenging an overly rhetorical approach to preservation. Venice will benefit from addition and difference instead of being slowly sedated by the repetition of old models. Most contemporary architectural interventions in the city have been limited to Pavilions or conservation of historic buildings but is pure conservation a sustainable model for living?
New design sensibilities and construction technologies open up new possibilities to benefit contemporary society; the studio will promote a positive and constructive attitude towards design and community.
UNStudio | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 8-10pm Melb |10-12pm Venice | 5-7pm China | 4-6am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 9.20-9.30pm Melb |11.20-11.30am Venice | 6.20-6.30pm China | 5.20-5.30am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 9-9.30pm Melb |11-11.30am Venice | 6-6.30pm China | 5-5.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Venice Recaptured
Background
Venice in itself is the manifestation of history, kept and encapsulated knowledge of centuries amalgated in one location. Trends and innovation of a long gone era standing tall against time and changes nurturing a unique urban fabric and distant reminders of an equally unique lifestyle: a car free city, with high urban density, vibrant green areas and strong sense of community.
The Ex-Italgas area is one of the very few in Venice where there is room for slightly larger scale urban regeneration without disrupting the existing historic urban fabric. The ten hectares strategic area is reachable by sea, on foot and by car; the only place that connects Piazzale Roma, the railway station with the Zattere, Santa Margherita and the port. Through the centuries it always has been a place of significant changes; with the urban growth its relation to the city has been redefined from being a vibrant fringe community to an industrial hotspot and finally to a slightly neglected and underutilized brownfield enclosure.
Objectives
The main objective of the studio is to create an urban strategy, to understand the main challenge that Venice and its communities are facing at the intersection between urban design, society and ecology. The students will be guided to develop their own future scenario and define the legacy of the project in a think piece. Furthermore the studio targets to address the fundamental topics of the future Venice: Resilience and Relevance, Ecology and Community, Circularity and Sustainability, Tourism and Urban Synergy.
Targets and Approach
To achieve the objectives, the studio will concentrate on three main topics: Placemaking, Community Building and Legacy I Future proofing of the strategy. The aim is to create a strong strategy which can be the base guideline of the urban regeneration of the Ex-Italgas area, capturing all necessary considerations and possibilities, to build an urban development plan which embraces its history, context and future.
Salottobuono | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 9-11pm Melb |11-1pm Venice | 6-8pm China | 5-7am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 9.10-9.20pm Melb |11.10-11.20am Venice | 6.10-6.20pm China | 5.10-5.20am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 6.30-7pm Melb |8.30-9am Venice | 3.30-4pm China | 2.30-3am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Scenes of Venetian Life
Between 1740 and 1782 the self-taught painter Gabriel Bella portrayed 67 scenes of public and private Venetian life [1]. Entirely preserved at the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, this body of paintings represents a precious historical document that tells us about the relationships between the architecture of the city, the intimate daily life of its inhabitants, and the staging of major collective rituals. Subtracted from the nostalgic image of a fragile and decadent environment, the stones of Venice are violently challenged by events such as the Bulls race on Rialto Bridge, the Bear hunting in Campo Sant’Angelo, the Paddle game, or the Doge Funerals.
How can we imagine a similar narration for the present and future of our cities? What kind of “scenes” would we portray? What spaces would frame them? What rituals would take place there?
These kind of questions are at the core of a reversed strategy for approaching the urban form: instead of an a priori scheme projected onto the site, a series of specific urban scenes will be formulated as perspective drawings, collected in the form of an incomplete storyboard, and later translated into fragments of a potential plan.
From Roland Barthes’ Comment vivre ensemble [2] to Hashim Sarkis’ How will we live together? [3] the negotiation of boundaries between private and collective life, and the notion of shared spaces are crucial in defining the project for the contemporary city. Only through a speculation on outrageously experimental forms of living together we can find an escape strategy from the passive-aggressive individuality of touristic mono-culture, and enjoy the potential luxury of an unfiltered urban life.
Matteo Ghidoni – Salottobuono
[1] See Giorgio Busetto, Pietro Longhi, Gabriel Bella: scene di vita veneziana, Milano, Bompiani, 1995.
[2] Roland Barthes, Comment vivre ensemble. Simulations romanesques de quelques espaces quotidiens, Notes de cours et de séminaires au Collège de France, 1976-1977.
[3] Title of the 17th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2021.
Dogma | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 8-10pm Melb |10-12pm Venice | 5-7pm China | 4-6am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 7.50-8.00pm Melb |9.50-10.00am Venice | 4.50-5.00pm China | 3.50-4.00am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 6-6.30pm Melb |8-8.30am Venice | 3-3.30pm China | 2-2.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
In its long history, Venice has been affected by several demographic declines. In 1300 the city lost about 3/5 of its inhabitants due to the effects of the Plague. In the following centuries, the city was again hit by violent pandemics with consequent loss of population. Each of these falls was followed by rapid demographic increases to the point that the city’s population, if observed from a long-term perspective, surprisingly appears relatively stable. Such stability was the result of explicit policies of the city’s government — the Serenissima — to favour immigration towards the city. It was clearly understood that the wealth of the city was directly linked to a stable and rising population. The current situation makes us rethink of these events. While the population is today just above 50.000—one of the lowest numbers ever—the city has lost about 18.000 inhabitants only in the last twenty years. Given the current population age, it also appears evident that the city is not able to compensate internally for this decline but that it urgently needs again to develop a series of policies to specifically attract new young citizens. Within such goal, affordable housing and spaces of working are fundamental components. In our approach to the city in general and to the site specifically, we aim at developing an innovative typological research experimenting with a set of diversified types of housing in which specific and different kinds of actors have a role, such as students, elderly, fragile inhabitants, migrants’ entrepreneurs. With such a goal in mind, the city offers an interesting set of types. Yet, revisiting such typological past will not aim at its formal reinterpretation and adaptation to recent building codes, but to test its capacity to adapt and support forms of coexistence between living and working, production and reproduction, young and old, and collective and private.
DOGMA (Martino Tattara and Celeste Tellarini)
MAD Architects | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 8-10pm Melb |10-12pm Venice | 5-7pm China | 4-6am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 8.00-8.10pm Melb |10.00-10.10am Venice | 5.00-5.10pm China | 4.00-4.10am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 8.30-9.00pm Melb |10.30-11.00am Venice | 5.30-6.00pm China | 4.30-5.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
St. Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco) is Venice’s only square with the title of “piazza”. All the other areas in Venice that in the rest of the world are called squares are called Campi (Fields).
The Venetian campo is the heart of the neighborhood. The social meaning of it has always been very strong, since Venice is a polycentric city, built on numerous islands that lived a life of their own.
Today, however, the social life of the Venetian campo is declining fast.
MAD Architects wants to analyze the existing urban fabric and create an urban strategy that will reinforce social life in the city. We will study Square (Piazza), Campi (Fields), Campiello (small field), Corte (courtyard), and their Network in the city.
Using different techniques and methodology our students will find voids in the city fabric (missing functions) and broken links in the urban network that cause negative consequences of social fragmentation.
Using our site Ex-Umberto I as a starting point, students are invited to design an architectural form that will activate public spaces in the city and develop a social network that will bring the community together.
Young & Ayata | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 3-5am Melb |5-7pm Venice | 12-2am China | 11-1pm New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 3-4am Melb |5-6pm Venice | 12-1am China | 11-12pm New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 3-4am Melb |5-6pm Venice | 12-1am China | 11-12pm New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio [] | WIP (1hr) | 3-4am Melb |5-6pm Venice | 12-1am China | 11-12pm New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 3-4am Melb |5-6pm Venice | 12-1am China | 11-12pm New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 3-4am Melb |5-6pm Venice | 12-1am China | 11-12pm New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 3-4am Melb |5-6pm Venice | 12-1am China | 11-12pm New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 6.30-7.00pm Melb |8.30-9.00am Venice | 3.30-4.00pm China | 2.30-3.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Agenda:
Electromagnetic data captured by cameras combined with photogrammetry creates three-dimensional models of reality. This is the information acted on, exchanged, monetized, and stored. The relation between the physical environment and its representation has been a core relationship for the discipline of architecture for centuries, yet architects have had very little agency in how the environment scanned as information is understood and used. A possible entry point is to ask how scanning technologies and their resultant models alter the conventions of architectural representation.
Context:
EX-UMBERTO I – Venice, Italy
Venice is in many ways one of the most mediated cities in the world, occupying a semi-real imaginary. It has been re-represented through texts, drawings, photographs, and cinema countless times, even recreated as a resort in the deserts of Nevada. A dream city outside the urban shocks of automobiles and other technological disruptions. A city of wonders preserved yet devoured by the parasitic economies of tourism and its images. A city of exceptions and the exceptional extremes.
Action:
The studio brief will look at the site and Venice as a reality mediated through images. It will act through photogrammetric models to propose an intervention gathered from image information. A reality modeled after images is no less real than an image modeled after reality. And Venice distinctly questions any assumptions we may have regarding this divide, providing a perfect opportunity for speculations on the role of image mediation in contemporary architectural design.
Dorte Mandrup | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 10-12am Melb |12-2pm Venice | 7-9pm China | 6-8am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 8.20-8.30pm Melb |10.20-10.30am Venice | 5.20-5.30pm China | 4.20-4.30am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 8-8.30pm Melb |10-10.30am Venice | 5-5.30pm China | 4-4.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Transformation and extension of Casa dei Bombardieri into artist residency and gallery
To walk through Venice is to experience a dense network of spaces, a complex urban fabric developed over time. Meandering through the labyrinth of pathways one may get lost and discover spaces to inhabit or use temporarily. It is a place in a fragile balance. The richness of its historical heritage is inevitably connected to the risk of transforming into a large-scale museum.
Focusing on the northern part of the Canneregio district, the goal of this assignment will be to create a depth in readability of time, so the area can be understood from multiple perspectives. To allow history to co-exist with future functions, movements, and ideals. We will focus on the only direct entry point to the Ex-Umberto I site – Casa dei Bombardieri – thus creating a starting point and a catalyst for the further transformation of the area. Creating both public and private functions, we imagine the building transforming into a new cultural space with gallery and artist residency. The residency will be an addition to the existing while the gallery will be housed in Casa dei Bombardieri itself.
To approach the task, we will be adding new layers to the existing fabric, through a series of interventions and additions, allowing alternative ways of understanding Venice and Ex-Umberto I. We will work with ways of making architecture relevant to the specific place and content, to expose or underline the unique potential of the site and allow the historic structures to be redefined by new functions. Preserving and understanding the past is a part of evolving. At the same time, layering is the way that our historical buildings and landscapes have gradually transformed into what we see today, with great diversity of typologies, scales, and functions. It allows the old and the new to coexist and new generations to influence its development.
Sauerbruch Hutton | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 9-11pm Melb | 11-1pm Venice | 6-8pm China | 5-7am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 9-9.10pm Melb |11-11.10am Venice | 6-6.10pm China | 5-5.10am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 9-9.30pm Melb |11-11.30am Venice | 6-6.30pm China | 5-5.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
This site is isolated from the normal city fabric of Venice, trapped in a triangular space generated by the SR11 motorway leading to Piazzale di Roma which peels off the widening railway lines reaching the main train station of Santa Lucia. Only a small road bridging over the water connects this small piece of land to the rest of Venice. At the moment this miniscule site is almost invisible to the public eye. This otherwise almost inaccessible and rather small plot of land at the Dorsoduro has probably one single quality that makes it unique: it is at the entrance to Venice from the mainland with all travelers arriving by train, bus, car or taxi to Venice passing through it, currently without noticing it.
The task of the seminar will be to create a viewing tower that will become a new icon for contemporary Venice, welcoming visitors and locals alike, acting as a hinge between the mainland and the island, offering new and fantastic views to both sides, connecting Mestre and Venice. The historic activity of the swimming pool will be preserved and integrated into the urban design. The tower should have a viewing platform and offer a small gastronomy at the top. Part of the task will also be to conceive and design the pedestrian access to the site.
The tower should have noble height and proportions to adequately fit in the historic context of Venice, clearly welcoming visitors rather than imposing them and not competing with the Campanile of San Marco. The design is to be timeless and contemporary at the same time.
2050+ | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 8-10pm Melb |10-12pm Venice | 5-7pm China | 4-6am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 8.40-8.50pm Melb |10.40-10.50am Venice | 5.40-5.50pm China | 4.40-4.50am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 8-8.30pm Melb |10-10.30am Venice | 5-5.30pm China | 4-4.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Wet Matter
Water is the element that, more than any other, binds humans to the planet – from the oceans that surround and connects us all to the water that makes up most of our bodies. It is through water that bodies of different scales and character, human and other-than-humans exist together beyond the confines of flesh and land. It is through water that we can investigate other collectivities, kinships, and alliances beyond human centered narratives, relying on interconnections and interdependencies.
In the age of climate meltdown, the fragile ecosystem of Venice becomes an ideal testing ground to search for forms of wet architecture able to renegotiate the relationship between the lagoon, the city and the myriad of agents inhabiting them. Starting from the awareness that architecture alone is not enough to tackle such urgent issues, the studio will foster a research-based trans-disciplinary approach where “space” will be used as a medium rather than a goal, and where questions of functions will be replaced by notions of care.
In this context, the Rari Nantes site offers opportunities and challenges: a piece of infrastructure sitting at the edge of historical Venice, emblem of an ever-evolving city, where the encounter between (human) bodies and water was once a project and that today could instigate a different and more inclusive idea of cohabitation.
MOREAU KUSUNOKI | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 12-2am Melb |2-4pm Venice | 9-11pm China | 8-10am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 8.50-9.00pm Melb |10.50-11.00am Venice | 5.50-6.00pm China | 4.50-5.00am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 12-1am Melb | 2-3pm Venice | 9-10pm China | 8-9am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 12-1am Melb | 2-3pm Venice | 9-10pm China | 8-9am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 12-1am Melb | 2-3pm Venice | 9-10pm China | 8-9am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 12-1am Melb | 2-3pm Venice | 9-10pm China | 8-9am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 12-1am Melb | 2-3pm Venice | 9-10pm China | 8-9am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 9.30-10.00pm Melb |11.30-12.00pm Venice | 6.30-7.00pm China | 5.30-6.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
We are drawn to look at Venice through the lens of its inherent contrasts, as a city that seems to be balancing between different states and different forces: between land and water, past and future, preservation and transformation. Between tourists and locals, museum and real-life, between an aspiration of eternity and an inevitable physical fragility.
The Rari Nantes site embodies all these tensions and also exists between the old city and the new, between leisure and infrastructure, between a destination and a “left-over” space.
The focus of the studio lies in neither side of these binaries, but precisely in the potential of their “in-between”. The absence of a predefined identity opens up the possibility to envision different futures for the site and for Venice. There lies the space for unexpected intersections and encounters to arise.
The studio will explore a multitude of scenarios for the site, considering program, scale and materiality, with an aspiration to highlight the role of Rari Nantes as a threshold into a new Venetian condition, and to reinforce its significance as a first place of meeting and exchange, rather than as a zone of transition. The nature, form or expression of the proposal can be questioned and defined by the studio, as long as it maintains a social and cultural aspect, and creates new connections, tangible and intangible.
In juxtaposition to the sense of permanence that reigns over the historic city and the resistance to change that constrains any intervention, this studio will reflect on the ephemerality of the proposals and contemplate how a first or second “life” of this gateway site can contribute to a new, human-centred perception of Venice in the collective imaginary.
Monadnock | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 7-9pm Melb | 9-11am Venice | 4-6pm China | 3-5am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 8.30-8.40pm Melb | 10.30-10.40am Venice | 5.30-5.40pm China | 4.30-4.40am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 8-9pm Melb |10-11am Venice | 5-6pm China | 4-5am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 8.30-9.00pm Melb |10.30-11.00am Venice | 5.30-6.00pm China | 4.30-5.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
The Venice Catalogue.
The beauty of Venice has attracted a constant influx of visitors throughout history. In recent years this clearly grew out to mass-tourism which is undermining the inhabitation of the ancient city. Nowadays, exploiting a house as hotel is by far more profitable than containing the domestic function. Although this problem appears all over the world, Venice is among the most pressured and exemplary places.
What if. There would be a grand hotel that would redeem the city from the overload of hotel bargains by changing towards a balance that would combine domesticity and visiting in an improved way? The standard program of a hotel is rather generic and repetitive. This offers freedom, as well as an invitation for variety. What if. The hotel, because of its grand dimension would be like a fragment of a city? Vertically organized, stacked: a machine behaving like a grand palazzo. Imagine the building as self-sufficient, optimally connected to infrastructure and public transport. What if. This grand hotel would resonate specific spatial features of Venice? How could this giant structure combine the order and logistics of a grand hotel and become a beautiful, condensed catalogue of Venice?
For Renaissance architects, such as Andrea Palladio among many others, the strategy of assemblage was a sharp instrument in their toolbox, often well developed. Assemblage offers inspiring, provocative and adventurous combinations. This strategy offers a wide spectrum of sorts, ranging from a big contrast to totally merged. How could fragments of the city resonate, and what would become their new meaning?
MVRDV | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 7-9pm Melb |9-11am Venice | 4-6pm China | 3-5am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 7.10-7.20pm Melb |9.10-9.20am Venice | 4.10-4.20pm China | 3.10-3.20am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 7-7.30pm Melb |9-9.30am Venice | 4-4.30pm China | 3-3.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Overview
The studio envisions expanding the Giardini della Biennale into the shipyard of ACTV, both size wise and conceptually. The studio aims to go beyond the idea of a secluded exhibition space, only suitable for visitors a few months a year, where national pavilions exhibit and compete. Instead it aims at designing a truly open exhibition venue where the new type of pavilions focus on relevant themes of society and ecology, while providing useful spaces for Venetians all year round. The pavilion themes are based on and led by the United Nations SDGs and by key international movements within society.
Main objectives:
- Open private and secluded areas of Venice to the public at large and to Venetians in particular.
- Improve the connection between the Island of Olivolo and the island of Sant’Elena.
- Raise awareness on sustainability via the United Nations SDGs
- Promote a more equal and inclusive society.
Approaches
The analysis and program will lead the design process. The studio will explore the possibility of re-using, upgrading and upcycling the existing, plus, of designing brand new structures that might be temporary and/or floating. Part of the goal will be to reconnect the Island of Sant’Elena to the Island of Olivolo (S.Pietro di Castello) and part will be to turn the shipyard and its dock into a public, green, open, fun and cultural venue for citizens and tourists.
Attitude to Venice
The studio will challenge a static vision of Venice and will expand upon the idea of bringing a cultural, lively and diverse program to the fruition of the general public all year round, instead of secluding culture behind walls and fences.
Analysis of Site
The studio will start from an analysis of the site and its immediate surrounding. It will include an understanding of the existing conditions in order to plan the future scenario. It will highlight necessary urban improvements which will inform and steer the design.
BOLLES+WILSON | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 7-9pm Melb |9-11am Venice | 4-6pm China | 3-5am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 7.20-7.30pm Melb |9.20-9.30am Venice | 4.20-4.30pm China | 3.20-3.30am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 7-8pm Melb |9-10am Venice | 4-5pm China | 3-4am New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 7-7.30pm Melb |9-9.30am Venice | 4-4.30pm China | 3-3.30am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
BEYOND the BIENNALE or EXQUISITE CORPSES and AUSTRIAN THEMES
On the 21st of October 2021 the site was issued – to be honest I felt like Malaparte exiled by Mussolini to the island of Lipari – he took his ‘Mama’ with him and came back with a super sexy staircase – to become the leitmotif of the magnificent Villa Malaparte.
But Sant‘Elena seemed so far off centre, a Venetian exile, not even mentioned in the Blue Guide – no bridges over the Grand Canal, no proximity to the Cannaregio ghosts of Le Corbusier, Eisenmann or Hejduk, with no clues for us to pretend that we could seriously contribute to the future of Venice (we after all, like so many architects, are Venice junkies).
And further, the official program suggests a research trajectory paying attention to typology and scale. What can we (a globally displaced studio) add in ten or so day to the preservation/transformation discourse that Venetian insiders have chewed over for years. Do we even know who Ignarzio Gardella, Gino Valle, Mendes da Rocha or for that matter Cino Zuchi are? This sort of research would be the responsible approach. But this studio is about thinking outside the box, the irresponsible approach – brain storming our way to the unprecedented.
AUSTRIAN THEMES – THE EXQUISITE CORPSE
Along with the site issue came photos of a Sant‘Elena Football Stadium (a possible studio theme but it is outside the draconian white line that defines our field of research). The workshop issue also included historic maps, some under the category – Austrian (Venice was for a number of years Hapsburg territory), one of these maps (XXVII) has promise, it is mostly blank, a few houses on the left side and a floating label – Gardini Pubblici – which turns out to be an embryonic Biennale Gardens (possibly ‘the illegal substance’ of our Venice addiction). The Austrian map could also be seen as an invitation to play the Surrealist game – the Exquisite Corpse – a page multiple folded where each participant continues the fold crossing lines of the previous player.
This will be our studio’s – EXERCISE ONE – a wild out-folding of the Biennale Gardens (pre national pavilions) in the direction of Sant’Elena – we could even see this as licence to add our own national pavilion, or even the pavilion hosting us in Melbourne.
AUSTRIAN THEMES PART 2. Further study of the issued Sant‘Elena site reveals that the nineteenth century Biennale Gardens were extended in the early years of the twentieth century across a canal and on to the island of Sant’Elena. WOW! Not periphery but epicentre!
At this point I recalled various visits to the Austrian Pavilion at the back of the Biennale gardens, what then lay beyond was ‘terra incognita – it is now our site’.
The Austrian Pavilion was designed by Joseph Hoffmann in 1913, but had to wait 20 years for a competition, Hoffmann won and was commissioned (looks very like Austrian skulduggery). It was built in 30 days and finished on the 12th of May 1934. It is an elegant cubic box both modern and monumental (as an ex-Secessionist, the Viennese maliciously referred to him as ‘Quadrat Hoffmann’) with high clearstory windows and a high cutout entrance portico, which leads nowhere, or more significantly straight through and out the back. Did Hoffmann mean this as an invitation to march symmetrically on to our site? Could we repeat Hoffmann at a bigger scale? – the Big Austrian (Arnie?) – to be visualized – needs a function.
AUSTRIAN THEMES PART 3
In 1984 Hans Hollein renovated the Austrian pavilion, twelve years before for the 1972 Biennale (Art Biennale – this was before the Architecture Biennale went autonomous in 1980) Hollein had built a small installation as a breakout from the Austrian Pavilion. The theme ‘life and death’ manifested in an iconic anchored raft with abstracted white throne (very Egyptian, very Architectura Radicale) and an elevated tented platform with a dark swaddled figure on a ritualistic stretcher (very Walter Pichler – Hollein’s Viennese pal).
This iconic work floated on the canal that separates Sant’Elena from the Gardini, it now haunts our site – a small scale but resonant register.
STUDIO PROGRAM
The above narratives are the program. As a studio we will visualize, discourse and expand on them. In conversation various tasks will emerge:
– Mapping the existing, the adjacent, the inherited
(the real, the imaginary, the symbolic)
– Riding with the street-view camera as it circumnavigates Sant ‘Elina and constructing continuous elevations for us to knit our proposals into the continuity of the waterfront. Is this a radical contexturalism (bombing the site with aliens of our deviant derivation)?.
– A local colour palette might need activating.
Inside our white line defined site is almost 50% water – usual for Venice – but historically no obstacle for projecting buildings.
– Trees abound, is it a park or a Biennale ‘Salon de Refuses’ ?
– Our map and 3D projectionists will discover a series of sheds, too small to effectively reuse. But what new Venetian functions may be housed in ‘Sheds on Steroids’.
I will play ship captain (navigating, charting a course) and look forward to what the program asked for:
– limited truths, liquid truths
– Venezia – città del modern, a paradigm of experimentation
– paradigm diversity, cultural exceptions
and to journeying with 5 architecturally sturdy oarswomen/oarsmen as crew on this open ended Venetian Odyssey.
Peter Wilson, Münster, October 2021
Baukuh | Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 2-4am Melb |4-6pm Venice | 11-1am China | 10am-12pm New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 7.30-7.40pm Melb |9.30-9.40am Venice | 4.30-4.40pm China | 3.30-3.40am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 2-3am Melb |4-5pm Venice | 11-12am China | 10-11am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 2-3am Melb |4-5pm Venice | 11-12am China | 10-11am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 2-3am Melb |4-5pm Venice | 11-12am China | 10-11am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 9-10pm Melb |11-12pm Venice | 6-7pm China | 5-6am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 2-3am Melb |4-5pm Venice | 11-12am China | 10-11am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 2-3am Melb |4-5pm Venice | 11-12am China | 10-11am New York |
| 18th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 7.30-8.00pm Melb |9.30-10.00am Venice | 4.30-5.00pm China | 3.30-4.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
Sant’Elena is Venice’s periphery. To understand it, it is necessary to observe Venice by looking at the entire lagoon. Inside of this larger constellation, Sant’Elena can be observed, interpreted and designed.
The reflection on the relation among Sant’Elena and the larger territory of the lagoon will be investigated by designing a small piece of infrastructure taken form Venice traditional toolbox: a bridge. Students will be asked to place one new bridge in the island of Sant’Elena in order to give access to an expanded park, and so to establish new relations with the neighboring fragments of the city and the lagoon.
No matter its specific condition, Venice is a contemporary city, with a shrinking but still relevant resident population, for which no project has been imagined in the last 30 years (the only idea for the city being luxury resort). By imagining the smallest bit of infrastructure operating at the territorial scale, by suggesting new possible relations, by re-thinking the traditional typology of the Venetian bridge, students will address the complexity of the city by placing and designing a precise element of the city, a limited but conscious episode of a transformation addressing the city as a whole.
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects
| Agenda
Studio Calendar
(please note: all sessions are held over zoom)
| 5th Jan | Studio | Introductions (2hrs) | 10-12am Melb |12-2pm Venice | 7-9pm China | 6-8am New York |
| 8th Jan | Presentation [public] | Briefs and Teams (10mins) | 7.40-7.50pm Melb |9.40-9.50am Venice | 4.40-4.50pm China | 3.40-3.50am New York |
| 9th Jan | Studio [public] | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 10th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 11th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 12th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 13th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 14th Jan | Studio | WIP (1hr) | 10-11pm Melb |12-1pm Venice | 7-8pm China | 6-7am New York |
| 17th Jan | Presentation [public] | Final Reviews (30mins) | 7.30-8.00pm Melb |9.30-10.00am Venice | 4.30-5.00pm China | 3.30-4.00am New York |
Session Types
*Studio (Introductions): students meet studio leader(s) and fellow students, are introduced to the projects, research and interests of the office and are introduced to the brief, studio direction, expectations, motivations etc.
*Presentation [public] (Briefs and Teams): studio leaders introduce their office and full studio team and give an overview of their brief. (live-streamed to the public)
*Studio (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students
*Studio [public] (WIP): regular studio sessions with studio leaders and students (live-streamed to the public)
*Presentation [public] (Final Reviews): students and studio leaders present their final group project to a jury (live-streamed to the public)
Preview Brief
La Comunità Elenica
Historically, Venice was a city of trade and manufacture. Today, Venice’s economy has been largely reduced to the production of the symbolic and intangible goods of touristic and cultural experiences in an environment that is highly segregated along social and racial lines.
The studio’s hypothesis is that Venice could reinvent itself as a place for working and living if it manages to rediscover its historic role as a gateway to the Mediterranean and to the East in the context of the reality of the ongoing refugee crisis.
On the site of Sant’Elena the studio seeks to develop an alternative place for the future of working, living and leisure. The studio seeks to give form to a new community in which the contemporary social reality of Italy, that of a multi-cultural and multi-racial country of immigrants, finds a utopian place to thrive and develop: the Comunità Elenica.
In the studio we want to revisit the typology-based design approach of Aldo Rossi’s Architettura della Citta. We will use a series of historic Venetian building types such as the Portego hall, the Venetian row houses and the typologies of ancient shipyards as the base material for the production of an urban collage that, in turn, will serve as a footprint for an architectural speculation on the future of living and working in Venice.