Abitare a pelo (d'acqua). Venezia quadrata 2

The design goals and objectives of any “venitian” project could be resumed in the title “dopo Novissime”: the space between San Giobbe and San Secondo understood as a “quadratura”, framing, of this area on the ground of the entire urban system and its possibles scenarios, never forgetting its fundamental ambiguity, central and peripherical at the same time, and its “normality”; to think Venezia as a normal city and ask which characters could generate, today, a new process of housing development, how to inhabit the secret gardens and courtyards between water and land, invention and time. Results of a Design Studio workshop lead by the author at IUAV