I was lucky enough to be involved with this
two week intensive workshop Venice, hosted at the IUAV. The workshop was a
bringing together of architecture students from Manchester, Venice, Barcelona
and archaeology students from Catania. There were four archaeological sites
situated in the Veneto region, each requiring a form of protective cover or
structure. Students were put into mixed groups containing 2-3 architecture
students and 1-2 archeology students. The output from each group was then to
design a cover for the chosen site. I worked with a student from Barcelona and
collaborated with three students of archaeology to design a scheme for the
ruins at Altino. There were four schemes for each site, 16 in total, which on
the last day were judged by a jury made up of architects, archeologists and
officials from the sites in question. Our scheme ‘DIS-CONNECTION’ came in at 1st place out of the schemes for Atino. The
workshop was a great opportunity to work with people from different
schools/disciplines/countries and I had a fantastic time. All of the projects
have embarked on a traveling exhibition around the contributing schools and I
think it will arrive in Manchester sometime next year…I hope my model hasn’t
fallen to bits by then. www.iuav.it/archeoplaces2
Here are the presentation boards for our
proposal. The scheme was about opening up the site to visitors in a way that
would communicate the ruins in context. This was done by use of a path that
moved from the museum to the ruins gradually lowering and then terminating at a
point as to reveal/imply the original city walls of Altino.
Exhibition organising students that all
speak different languages to an Italian schedule…logistical nightmare.
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