10.12.04
IUAV Final Presentation
We have spent the last week preparing for our final project presentations, the first of which took place today at Venice's architecture school - known as IUAV.
Us discussing the larger scope of our projects with the class
Our fearless leader explaining the goals of our Venice program and accompanying projects and suitcases to Venice student and faculty
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pollman - ministry of memory
links to both projects are below. the file is large. i ask for your patience as i haven't had time to reconfigure for web resolution.
group project with robin and becky here
individual project here
***to navigate the individual project mouse-over bottom left of screen to find "next button" (mouse will turn from arrow to hand) and click.
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TOURIST WORKS_robin
Given the site of Campo San Cosmo, in the middle of the Giudecca, TOURIST WORKS draws upon the future force of tourism (and its inherent consumer waste) in a localized way. Starting with the existing system of trash collection on the Giudecca, this project plans to harness the productive potential of tourist waste generated by the hotel industry. Currently under construction on a neighboring Giudecca island, the future Mulino Stucky Hilton will provide:
_3000 plastic water cups |
_9000 plastic toiletry bottles | ------| and 1500 beds per day.
Instead of treating these articles of tourist ephemera as rubbish, TOURIST WORKS will collect the plastic, re-manufacture it, and send it back to Campo San Cosmo to be used as a new paving material over a period of several decades. Using a set of site data, each new paver records the local conditions around Campo San Cosmo, as well as the scalar relationship between waste generated at the Mulino Stucky Hilton and the size of each individual paver. Thus, over a period of several decades, the surface and composition of the campo will change to represent both the presence of millions of tourists, as well as the needs of the local community.
To view the presentation, please click here.
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presentation :: becky y
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sant'erasmo. lagoon archive.
from our team project, 'what if venice were like manhattan,' kara + i took the notions of infrastructure and information with the intention of transferring them to 2 lagoon sites. each on a smaller scale, each allowing for the lagoon to become more inhabitable.
site: northern tip of sant' erasmo [northern lagoon island]
program: archive of and for the lagoon
placed on the periphery between land and salt marsh, common objects of the lagoon are recombined to allow for a new experience of it.
objects such as discarded vaporettos, vaporetto stops, and piles will be brought together and used as a vehicle for holding, expressing, representing information on the lagoon.
these common images [objects] of the lagoon group together forming a cluster of possible exchange.
together they represent an exploration, a study, and a re-presentation of the context of the lagoon and how one can experience it.
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kara - movable multiples
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alisha_certosa_gateway
Presentation File Here http://www.people.virginia.edu/~akc2q/alishadec9.pdf
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09.12.04
presentation 2
- technical note: each paragraph corresponds to a slide in the pdf
stations within and without
_With a future elevated rail system in mind [first project – new transportation infrastructure], my objective is to take advantage of Venice’s geographical orientation on a North-South axis and consider a city-center subway system of north – south lines which would connect to the elevated rail.
_The subway is not a part of the near future; however, by dividing the city map into North-South block-like segments, we can re-organize one’s perception and experience of navigating the city into a closer alignment with the organization of the subway.
_Looking closely at Line 3, one can see how the N-S lines correspond to public space, such as Campo Ghetto Nuovo. I will be using Campo Ghetto Nuovo as a prototype.
_Given the abundance of the existing infrastructure of wells currently not in use by the Venetians, I propose the city re-claim the space under the campo previously carved out for the well. The well should be inhabited now. In the future it will become an access point for the N-S subway line.
_A new well is constructed within the space of the old. In this slide, I am illustrating the interior walls and floor of the new basin. The well inhabited becomes an orientation point now, years before the subway. The new well, shown here, conforms to the N-S geometry. With mappings and images on the wall, one will be able to orient within the N-S direction and within the city.
_The stair mediates between the local orientation of the existing well and the N-S orientation of the new basin and future subway. The stair fills the space between the two basins, and with an incremental change in the orientation of each stair, one is brought from a universal geometry to a local geometry.
_By inhabiting the space allotted the wells and making use of this existing space, there is little physical change to the campo. Activating an unused space will further activate the space of the campo and the city.
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Presentation
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Venice in Section: Restoration of Public Space
Slide 1
My project is concerned with orientation and incorporation of the lagoon environment in the campi. By inserting a series of moves into the existing INSULA canal restoration process, I propose a rather simple and discreet way to transform Venice’s public spaces.
Note: INSULA is the urban maintenance company of Venice.
Slide 2
My site of study, Campo Santa Maria Nova, will act as the model for this new program. Here, you can see I propose an incision in the campo less than a meter wide. I also propose occupying the canal space, so as to preserve the existing physical fabric of the campo. A tower is built within the canal, resting underwater. When activated, the tower rises up to a height of 18 meters, providing a view of the surrounding city.
Slide 3
Here is a diagram of the existing canal dredging and restoration process used by INSULA. First, the canal bottom is dredged. Secondly, the canal walls are injected with a stabilizing material to improve their structural integrity. Finally, new masonry is added to the existing wall and utilities are re-routed.
Slide 4
I am suggesting a modified process. First, when the canal bottom is dredged, the structural framework for a hydraulic tower is anchored in the mud. This can be completed after the bottom is dredged.
Slide 5
Next, with the injection of stabilizing materials into the wall, the tower machinery is constructed behind it.
Slide 6
Finally, fresh mortar is applied to the wall and utilities are re-routed. At this stage, the lagoon garden is constructed in the campo, pulling up pavers and digging into the subsoil. This garden not only references plant life found throughout Venice’s lagoon but also absorbs acqua alta.
Slide 7
This is a section cutting through the new tower and lagoon garden within Campo Santa Maria Nova. The garden is a small intervention in this lively campo, and the tower, which usually rests just beneath the canal water’s surface, serves as an orientation device for both tourists and Venetians. The strategies used in the campo can be employed throughout the city, thus offering Venice’s campi a new orientation device as well as a reference to its surrounding lagoon environment.
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Harvesting Space In Time
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My first project with Sallie was the creation of LAGUNaVIVA, a catalyst organization that taps into Venice's tradition of festival and re-invented space as a way of imaging the growth of the city. It is a project about harvesting space and trees from the agriculture of Sant Erasmo and the urban fabric of Venice by overlaping these phsysical and temporal spaces along the time lines of Venice's festivals and growing seasons. In continuation, my second project furthers the exploration of my first project by suggesting that the mission of LAGUNaVIVA is expanded to realize that the health of Venice works in balance with the life of the terra-firma- the TERRaVIVA of the Veneto.
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PROCESS
The shape and area of the campi are used as a template for the harvest of trees on Sant Erasmo. These trees are grown on unused plots of land on Sant Erasmo for the purpose of remediation plantings in the Veneto. As the physical harvest of trees is moved from lagoon to city and then Veneto, the ehemeral space formed by the trees in area of a campi intentionally overlaps with consecutive festivals or events occuring within the lagoon and Venice.
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SPRING the scalar difference between agriculture field and campi (field) is understood in the harvested space of the peach orchard. it is a space unrealized on the island, formed by the mass of tree rather than building.
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SPRING the harvest moves to a point of threshold, where artichoke festival (first project) touches ground at sant erasmo. trees create and unexpcted social space on the island.
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FALL the trees overlap with the landscape architecture biennale in campo manin (first project). the harvest is physically experienced in the urban fabric of the campo.
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LATE FALL the trees are bundled and moved out of the city upon barges, spectacle and memory of the temporary places they onced formed within the city.
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LAGUNaVIVA / TERRaVIVA
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Venice Aquatic Remediation + Recreation Society
My project is shown below as it was presented to the IUAV architecture class. The accompanying text should be useful to anyone interested in a further dialogue - especially professors involved in our virtual review Friday. The slides graphically laid out as a brochure for a newly-formed society for which my project was designed.
Click Here to Download the initial Virgin Venezia slide show!
Interested parties [Venetians and tourists] row the gondolas, of which there are 3-4 for every pool barge, following the directions of the toxicity sensors in each boat.
Their paths are recorded with GPS technology, and transmitted to the research labs, located on the deck of the pool barges. The barges use those paths to chart a course through the plumes. The lagoon water is cleaned using diatomic water remediation, and the water being remediated is used as the pool water in which Venetians and tourists may swim.
