New Ways to live in Venice

VENICE
During Second World War Years, the “Mare Del Lido Hospital” found space for some of its wards on the Island. In the last part of the 60’s the Island witnessed the gradual abandonment until the definitive closure in 1979 by decree of the Italian Board of Health. Since this date, the Island has been used solely for agricultural purposes, with the subsequent ruining of the existing building, never more utilized.Only in recent times, works in all the three Islands have been aimed to the reinforcement of their edges.

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VENICE POVEGLIA AND OTTAGONO ISLAND "NEW WAYS TO LIVE VENICE" The tiny islands, Poveglia and Ottagono, are the subject of the contest. These islands are part of a compound located in the southern part of the Venetian Lagoon, made of three Islands really close to each other. The most south-located Island, with its octagonal shape is called “Ottagono di Poveglia” and has got an all-round bricks edge of recent construction, used in times past for the compound defense, even though nowadays no more traces have been left of the military construction located on it. The most central Island is connected with the one North-located by a bridge recently recuperated. The buildings located on this Central Island are in a real bad un-kept state, with the exception of a typical, recently renovated Venetian shelter for vessels located north-west of the island. Both Ottagono and the Greater North-located Island presents fallow ground, though in ancient times it was used as vegetable garden and vineyard. Poveglia was among the primordial villages of the lagoon. Several variations during the centuries in the end use of the Island resulted in the transformation of both the structure and the function of the ancient buildings therein. Since the Fifth Century a.c, the island hosted a village, followed then by a monastery and afterward by a boatyard. While from 1700 onward the Island has been used as a leper hospital. Demolitions occurred between the years 1846 and 1919 changed radically the building allocation of the Island, that since then developed northward. Some of the buildings still existing today, mostly hospital wings, date back to years between 1900 and 1945.

http://m-arch.co.uk/#competition
40 EUR
Englisch

deadline: 30.09.2014;
07.11.2014