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Collaborators
- Director of Research
- Coordinator, MS in Urban Planning for Transition
Residential Design
- Daniel Paul & Onel Santiago
Programmatic Goals of the Site:
Introduce residential housing districts to serve the permanent residents of Venice instead of catering to tourists. Renovate the outdated office spaces utilized by many of the businesses throughout the city. Provide a network of pedestrian-focused routes and parkways. Expand existing modes of transportation via buses, people movers, and Vaporetto. Reduce parking areas to allow for new infrastructure. Create a new frontage for the city of Venice and provide reasons to stay.
Accomplishes:
Developing a centralized transportation hub around 30th Street station and the new hyperloop system and an all-encompassing vertical city in the tower above that features centralized neighbourhoods of mixed-use. This provides varied housing options for both middle and upper-end development.
Create a new face for the Lagoon: Soften and Improve the current Flat-Face of a parking garage as the introduction to the islands
Create spaces for people to live & work: Help prevent mass exodus, Keep population healthy
Repair lost habitats: Wetlands surrounding the Tronchetto, Help with flooding and with environmental health
Urban Planning
- Daniel Paul & Onel Santiago
As the first thing visitors and residents alike see as they come into the Venice Lagoon by road or train, “Tronchetto A” should be a beacon of what the city represents and can be at its finest. Instead, they are currently faced with two large warehouses and a concrete parking garage on underdeveloped and vacant land. In order to reinvigorate the local economy while improving the “face of Venice,” Resurfacing Venice begins with a new neighbourhood in the lagoon dedicated to the residents of Venice that keep the city alive. The proposed program features a band of green residential infrastructure, with modern villas surrounded by community-building piazzas and streetscapes. As a barrier to the changing climate, the island will be surrounded by a new park system that rises above restored wetlands, helping to mitigate flooding to the rest of the lagoon. A central park and infrastructure hub at the corner of the island will become a new location for the community to gather and enjoy their deep-seated connection to the lagoon, as well as provide unobstructed views towards the mountains. This same park will also become the anchor that replaces the current parking garage as the first thing visitors see when arriving, imprinting them with the idyllic and romantic emotions that a city like Venice should invoke.
“Creating a new face for an already iconic but slowly failing city”