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ARCHAEOLOGY'S PLACES & CONTEMPORARY USES

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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