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1 venice Projects 18 Created 30-Jul-16 By li ye, dali, China Entrance Faculty of Letters and Philosophy Olivetti showroom B - Residential building in La Giudecca A2-A3 Refurbished industrial building D - Residential building in La Giudecca 5 San Michele Cemetery Extension 6 7 Ticket booth for the Venice Biennale 12 Dutch Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 13 Nordic Countries Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 14 Venezuelan Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 15 Sculpture Garden for the Venice Biennale 16 Venice, garden, sculpture 8 Aula Mario Baratto Restoration 17 Venice, auditorium, renovation, university 9 Venice, memorial space, museum Gallerie dell'accademia Renovation Venice, pavilion Venice, David Chipperfield s cemetery Palazzo Fondazione Masieri Venice, Sverre Fehn pavilion Venice, Cino Zucchi housing 11 Venice, Gerrit Rietveld pavilion Venice, Cino Zucchi housing, renovation 4 Venice, Cino Zucchi housing Palazzo Grassi Renovation Venice, museum, renovation Venice, bridge, museum 3 Venice, shop, showroom Querini Stampalia Bridge Venice, Tadao Ando museum, renovation Venice, education, university 2 Base for the 'Partigiana' by Augusto Murer 18 Venice, sculpture 10 Venice, kiosk Spazio Vedova 19 Venice, Renzo Piano exposition space, gallery, museum 1

2 photo: Dave Brown photo: Dave Brown Entrance Faculty of Letters and Philosophy Dorsoduro Venice The entrance to the faculty of philosophy in Venice was designed between 1976 and 1978 by Venice born architect It was completed posthumously Scarpa died on the 28th of November 1978, in Sendai in the north of Japan, following an accidental fall from a staircase So ended the creative life of one of the Masters of 20th century architecture His architecture is deeply sensitive to the changes of time, from seasons to history, rooted in a sensuous material imagination and has been widely praised from Tadao Ando to Mario Botta He was Botta's thesis adviser along with Giuseppe Mazzariol -- the latter was the Director of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia when Scarpa completed his renovation and garden for that institution (also published on MIMOA) photo: Dave Brown 1979 MI_MOA Ca'Foscari University, San Sebastiano View route details here: 2

3 photo: Dave Brown photo: Dave Brown Olivetti showroom Piazza San Marco Venice The "first Italian typewriter factory" was founded by Camillo Olivetti on 29 October 1908 It had 20 employees and a 500 sqm production workshop with a weekly output of about 20 machines Over the years Olivetti has undergone a series of transformations It moved from mechanics to electronics, from office products to computers, IT systems and services and telecommunications and has always distinguished itself in its ability to combine dedication to technological innovation with a strong commitment to culture and art as well as product quality and design In addition to factories and office buildings, the company's architectural achievements also include a number of Olivetti shops: on New York's Fifth Avenue (1954), designed by Belgiojoso, Peressuti and Rogers;; in Paris (1960), on Faubourg St Honoré, designed by Franco Albini; in Buenos Aires (1968) designed by Gae Aulenti and here in Venice (1959) created by Venice born designer photo: Olivetti Historical Archives 1958 Olivetti Group MI_MOA 3

4 photo: Dave Brown photo: Dave Brown Querini Stampalia Bridge Castello Venice The museum Querini Stampalia is a historical sixteenth century building, formerly inhabited by a patriarch of Venice and embellished by stucco and frescoes The museum on the second floor, preserves one of the richest art collections of the lagoon city with over four hundred paintings from the nineteenth century In 1961 was commissioned to do the restoration of the ground-floor and and garden at the rear of the building that was in a state of extreme neglect and degradation He rearranged the garden for use as an gallery and exhibition space, as the ground floor was frequently unusable due to the overflow of seawater at high tide The bridge forms a new access to the museum The project was built over ten years, under the direction of Joseph Mazzariol, friend and supporter of the Venetian master The project incorporates the inevitable water overflow as a fundamental design element in a very ingenious way photo: Dave Brown 1963 Fondazione Querini Stampalia MI_MOA 4

5 photo: Cino Zucchi photo: Cino Zucchi B - Residential building in La Giudecca Campo della Speranza Venice The B building constitutes the integral reconstruction of a small existing body overlooking the canal The new thin brick slab follows the profile of the pre-existing building through a deflection in plan and height Large double-height loggias overlook the green campiello This project is part of a larger urban plan on the island La Giudecca by Cino Zucchi s (also published on MIMOA) photo: Cino Zucchi Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Cino Zucchi Judeca Nova SpA 5

6 photo: Cino Zucchi A2-A3 Refurbished industrial building Calle delle Scuole Venice The A2-A3 building is a simple existing industrial building Small alterations in its profile try to give architectural dignity to its new role as a backdrop of the newly designed square The loggias excavated in the topmost floor underline the screen-like character of the south façade, whose new public function is reinforced by a new copper-clad canopy This project is part of a larger urban plan on the island La Giudecca by Cino Zucchi s (also published on MIMOA) Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Cino Zucchi Judeca Nova SpA photo: Cino Zucchi 6

7 photo: Cino Zucchi photo: Cino Zucchi D - Residential building in La Giudecca Calle delle Scuole Venice The new residential construction stands in the place of an existing building at the junction between two canals, preserving its smokestack as a document of the industrial past Its cubical mass is excavated on the South side by a trapeze white-stuccoed court, an intimate space which leads to the only vertical distribution If the materials and techniques used are very traditional, subtle alterations in their detailing reveal the impossibility of an historicist replica The traditional white Istria stone corniche which borders the windows of the minor Venetian historical architecture is transfigured into a graphic motif, working on the different depths of the windows given by the different obscuring devices This project is part of a larger urban plan on the island La Giudecca by Cino Zucchi s (also published on MIMOA) photo: Cino Zucchi Public access unknown! Floor area/size m² Cino Zucchi Judeca Nova SpA 7

8 photo: Mieke Vullings photo: Mieke Vullings San Michele Cemetery Extension San Michele Venice Venice s principal cemetery San Michele is located on an island between Venice and Murano The design redefines some of it's original physical qualities In the 1st phase the current burial grounds are complemented by the construction of a series of new courtyards and a chapel The first courtyard is a prototype and opened to the public in September 2007 It's called the courtyard of the four Evangelists : basalt-clad walls and pavements with inlaid text from the four Evangelists gospels and a black exposed concrete colonnade The second phase is the construction of a new island, parallel to the existing cemetery but separated by a canal It will feature tomb buildings, conceived as simple sculpted blocks, together with a series of gardens at water level Unlike the remainder of San Michele, which is higher above the water line and surrounded by a wall, this new island seeks to create a more open, accessible monument providing a greater sense of place and context within the lagoon photo: David Chipperfield s Floor area/size m² Services engineer Structural engineer Associate architect Services engineer Landscape designer David Chipperfield s Arup Jane Wernick Associates SSSR Associati Studio Associato Vio Wirtz International Comune di Venezia David_Chipperfield The part of the cemetery by Chipperfield lies on the north-eastern corner At arrival with the ferry (on the western side of the island), cross the island to the east 8

9 Palazzo Fondazione Masieri Dorsoduro Venice In 1968 was asked to make a project for the Masieri Foundation It was not until 1973 that the project was approved by the City Council and it forced him to keep the original façade and exterior of the palace facing the Grand Canal The façade is in fact detached from the floors, through spacial cuts The interior was completely renovated and new materials as concrete and steel were introduced After Scarpa's death, which occurred in 1979, the work was completed by some collaborators The Palace was finally inaugurated in 1983 Project is not public! Interior architect lmattozz Get off at STomà Vaporetto Station After Calle del Vaporetto turn left, cross a bridge and walk for 20 metres 9

10 Ticket booth for the Venice Biennale Viale Trieste Venice Conceived for the XXVI Venice Biennale art exhibition, the ticketing booth at the entrance of the Giardini Pubblici is a tiny work of art The booth was finished in 1952 and was used for many decades It was completely restored in 2004, although it is no longer in use The little booth is conceived as a small pavilion in itself mixing concrete, iron and wood La Biennale di Venezia lmattozz Get off at the 'Giardini' boat stop and walk towards the entrance of the Biennale 10

11 Palazzo Grassi Renovation Campo San Samuele Venice Palazzo Grassi was restored in 1983 by Gae Aulenti in order to hold art and historical exhibitions for the Agnelli family In 2005, the building was bought by François Pinault who called upon Tadao Ando to renovate the setting in order to display his modern and contemporary art collection Ando's intervention is delicate and done mostly with light, white marble stucco and grey linoleum The whole is conceived to set a soft tone around the rich original decoration of the building elements , Interior architect Tadao Ando lmattozz François Pinault Wednesday to Monday: / Closed on Tuesdays Get off at San Samuele boat station 11

12 Gallerie dell'accademia Renovation Campo della Carità Venice The Gallerie dell'accademia is the museum gallery of pre-1800s art in Venice Between 1945 and 1959, has worked on restoring the building and setting the new exhibition area His intervention is delicate and consists essentially of small elements such as new stairs, new holding panels for the paintings and new standing panels to guide the visitors Interior architect Comune di Venezia lmattozz Mondays: / Tuesdays - Sundays: Get off at Accademia boat station 12

13 Dutch Pavilion for the Venice Biennale Giardini Pubblici Venice In 1953, the Dutch government decides to bring down the 1912 pavilion by Ferdinand Boberg and puts Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in charge of designing the new Dutch pavilion The new pavilion has a simple square plan and few interior walls, all orthogonal to the exterior ones The building contains volumes of different heights in order to get light from above Gerrit Rietveld Dutch Government lmattozz Get off at the Giardini boat station and walk towards the Biennale entrance 13

14 photo: Addison Godel photo: Addison Godel Nordic Countries Pavilion for the Venice Biennale Giardini Pubblici Venice In 1958 a competition is held for the design of the Nordic Countries Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (to host Sweden, Norway and Finland) Three architects are invited: the swedish Klas Anshelm, the norwegian Sverre Fehn and the finnish Reima Pietila In 1959 Sverre Fehn is declared winner and by 1962 the Pavilion is completed The pavilion is a single rectangular hall of 400 sqm, open completely on two sides The roof is made of two overlapping layers of concrete beams The distance between the beams is 52,1 cm and this changes only when the roof meets the trees The pavilion is an example of the disappearing transition between interior and exterior photo: seier+seier Sverre Fehn Swedish Government lmattozz Get off at the Giardini boat station and walk towards the Biennale entrance 14

15 photo: seier+seier photo: seier+seier Venezuelan Pavilion for the Venice Biennale Giardini Pubblici Venice In 1953 Graziano Gasparini, Venezuelan commissioner for the Biennale, asked to design a pavilion for Venezuela In January 1954, the pavilion design is approved and the structure is roughly completed by October, while the XXVII Biennale is finishing Only by 1956 the pavilion finishings are completed It is conceived as three volumes sliding against each other The form is simple and realized in rough concrete Venezuelan Government lmattozz Get off at the Giardini boat station and walk towards the Biennale entrance 15

16 Sculpture Garden for the Venice Biennale Giardini Pubblici Venice In 1952, designed the Sculpture Garden for the Venice Biennale within a patio of the Italian Pavilion, originally designed in 1932 by Duilio Torres The little garden plays with light, shadow and water Three heavy elliptical columns support a canopy roof which is shaped as if three circles would have been subtracted from a rectangle The garden has not been in use for many years and only recently it has been completely restored La Biennale di Venezia lmattozz Get off at the Giardini boat station and walk towards the Biennale entrance 16

17 photo: Paulo Simoes photo: Paulo Simoes Aula Mario Baratto Restoration Dorsoduro Venice worked on two different projects for the Ca' Foscari University, the first one from 1935 to 1937 and the second one from 1955 to 1956 The first project was the complete restoration of the building, with its most visible traces now being the ground floor hall, glazed on both opposite ends for views of the grand canal and the courtyard, the staircase and parts of the main lecture hall The second intervention focused on the lecture hall (Mario Baratto Room) and created a complex wooden structure, separating the entrance space from the room This structure was made with wood from a demolished tribune belonging to the first project that stood in the same place In 1979, the room was destroyed by fire but was later rebuilt to Scarpa's design photo: Paulo Simoes 1956 Ca' Foscari University void Tours: Monday, Thursday and Friday: 1130 Monday to Friday: 1600 Meeting point on the ground floor of Ca Foscari Vaporetto Line 1 - S Tomà or Ca' Rezzonico Line 2 - S Tomà 17

18 photo: Paulo Simoes photo: Paulo Simoes Base for the 'Partigiana' by Augusto Murer Viale dei Giardini Pubblici Venice In 1968, Scarpa designed the base for a sculpture by Augusto Murer, representing the 'partigiana' The sculpture represents a woman, lying with her hands tied, and was placed on a platform floating on the water The base is made from concrete with copper plates, and is surrounded by an irregular 'field' of concrete and stone prisms with varying heights photo: Paulo Simoes 1968 Comune di Venezia void 18

19 photo: Paulo Simoes Spazio Vedova Sestiere Dorsoduro Venice Renzo Piano designed the conversion of the former studio of Venetian painter Emilio Vedova ( ), located in the former 'Magazzini del Sale', into a space to exhibit his works The proposal is an insert entirely made from brushed larch slats, carefully placed inside the existing space, whose brick walls and roof trusses were left exposed The insert is composed by two walls that mark the entrance and house the service spaces, and an inclined floor raising from the entrance to the back of the warehouse, where a metallic structure stores Vedova's paintings At predetermined hours of the day, ten robotic arms hanging from a rail running along the ceiling make a kind of mechanical choreography, taking the works from the storage structure and placing them on display throughout the space photo: Paulo Simoes Floor area/size m² Renzo Piano Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova void Wednesday - Sunday: The three series of works by Emilio Vedova will alternate at 1140 / 1310 / 1440 / 1610 & 1740 Vaporetto: Line 1: Accademia or Salute stops Line 2: Accademia stop Lines 51 or 52: Zattere stop 19