2G
Venice Lagoon Competition Proposals : desAguar = Luís Isidoro +
Rafael Vieira
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DESAGUAR
A2
1
OF
THE NAME AND PRESENTATION
We
chose to represent the name of Venice in italian because it seems
logical to us to demonstrate it’s linguistic autenticity. And
Venezia always seems magical to us, saying we both visited the city
long before even knowing we’re going to participate in a
competition regarding its enrichment with a urban park, with all
concearning this kind of intervention, meaning the erudit and
theorical thoughts and envisioned proposals.
Knowing
of Venezia and still with its presence longuing in our memory and
that we can assure its to perform and contribute even more to its
magnificence as city of art and culture that influenced the
mediterranean sphere for centuries.
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PROPOSAL
AND INTERVENTION
Three
moments were identified as a beginning to the project: Venezia,
Murano and Sacca San Mattia, these working as an aproaching scale to
the park to be deployed frome the city, the isles and, finally, our
island. These physical entities coexist in a bigger entity that is
the lagoon that is not to be left untouched, without reflection.
We
encountered some iconic relations between the geografic entities and
objects of the day to day. This iconic relations evolved into iconic
studies in wich the form of Venezia appeared as a fish, Murano
islands as a face and Sacca San Mattia as a punch. The fish, the face
and the punch, as icons, work as a jump start to the whole project of
the Venezia Park Lagoon, the fish evoking the past of venetian people
as traders and sea captains, the face remembering the masks
universally renowed and the punch as a dynamic manifest of the
project to come.
The
first step was to creat an organism, an organic infraestructure that
could connect and interligate both the Lagoon Park wih Murano, with
Venice, with venezian airport and with lagoon istself. This works as
an benefic organism, that appeared form several ideas and serves as a
front of the park to the city and congregates the vast necessary
building program that is expected.
The
organism appeared from both two ideas: the mask and the hands. The
mask offers the image of a fluid and fragile surface that covers the
face, thus suggesting that a giant mask could have fallen into Sacca
San Mattia and the voids formed by the eyes and mouth work as
courtyards. The hands, with all its infinite positions, when they
embrace, suggest a structure that could hold several courses between
the fingers.
The
mask and the hands ideas combined formed the organism, applied to the
place and using some old existing infrastructure to be left open,
like the football fields. The organism uses these voids to house
several different programs, in what the first one – the space of
the first football field – works as the Lagoon Park Lobby with a
Iconic Tower working as a landmark to the park itself and aproaching
to the churches towers of Murano and Venezia. The second void, works
as Lagoon Square, and with the first one serves as an balance to the
Saint Marcus Square in Venezia.
The
organism its an new topography, evolving routes of green on its top
and houses cultural facilities and visitors program underneath. Its
branches stretch into the park ground choosing different ways to mark
routes from the organims and into different programs that happen in
the park, like the Lagoon and Venezia Musem, the Contemporay Art
Museum, the folies, the theatres, the workshops, the sports
facilities and the pier that connects the park with bith Venezia and
the venezian airport.
The
organism also consolidates the island of Sacca San Mattia boundaries,
in wich one old branch in the middle east side works as a pier and
facilities to the visitors to the park and lagoon.
The
Next to the Organism theres a intricate building serving as a hotel
and habitat to visitors to the park and Murano. The Contemporary Art
Museum evolved from the idea of a package, joking with the idea of a
gift of art given to another one and next to it, theres a flutuable
stage using the idea of the Theatre of the World by the architect
Aldo Rossi.
The
park facilities are complete with a youth hostel, meditation spaces
and folies. The folies (you cubes) structures exist in all around the
park and work as restplaces and meditation spaces. The youth hostel
exists over water right side to a boardwalk that prolongs from the
park deep into the lagoon.
To
the South a new island was formed, the Nuova Murano island,
prolonging the urban limits to the South and aproaching Murano to
Venezia. It holds a mixed program consisting on habitats to workers
of Venezia and Murano and a habitat to the visitors of the Biennale,
theres also a large array of public services and commerce, showing a
complete city and not only as a habitation neighbourhood, testing
different kinds of the old venice mesh, creating different kinds of
hierarquies like the road / square (public universe) versus the
private spaces like courtyards and pateos (private universe).
The
lagoon portable prototypes are floating structures that can be taked
to anywhere into the lagoon, it uses no mechanic engines and serves
both as compact temporary habitat and as a observation point to the
fauna, flora and as an astronomical observatory. These portable
strucutres resemble the old kind of boats named coracles and rest in
some designated lagoon portable infraestrutures all around the
lagoon.
The
Lagoon program consists in a definition of large array courses around
the lagoon, the tidal power plant to use thepossibilites of
extracting energy form the tidal waves and the lagoon portable
prototypes, the coracle.
Two
matterials approaches were studied with different objectives: the
'Murano Glass' pannel uses the wastes of the murano glass that can be
found at the ground of the Sacca San Mattia, recycling it to a
building product to be used with different results. The ‘Murano
Brick’ uses the prime material of Venezia and its to be used vastly
in the park paving the courses, stages and some buildings, thus
remembering the old pavement and construction of Venezia.
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CONCLUSION
memory
of venezia
its
a simple gesture, to stretch the hand and just let it fall into the
ground
revealing
courses between the fingers
the
streets of the city that wants to grow and touch veneziaseeing bodies
growing from the dance of the water
Lisboa,
November 2007