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How can change the nature of the city of Venice in the coming decades?by Luca Molinari

and importance.And from this point of view, I can confidently say that the last century, and this last decade, has served only to accelerate this perception, delivering today a city emptied of real people and populated by waves of human emotions of easy consumers, quick and painless (through years the report between real citizens/60.000 and tourists/20 million, is impressive and totally disproportionate).If we cross Venice with the 900th history of architecture we would find the last great urban work of Corbu, an impossible congress palace by Kahn, a dream of reflections and mosaic on the Grand Canal by Wright, but also temporaries utopias of Arts and Architecture Biennals, the Guggenheim, the Grand Canal paved by Superstudio and the Teatro del Mondo by Aldo Rossi (a monument that floats, such as subtle irony!), the sophisticated realism by Valle with the urban ideology by Samonà, the metal and plastic architecture by Gehry with the sophisticated regionalism by Zucchi, the ideas and visions gym of IUAV with the acupuncture treatment of many Scarpa’s interiors.Even when it looked like a decadent city, on the edge of empires, Venice was a center, a low voltage but inexorable magnet, and it works even today, the city attracts automatically, but the question is: what can it do? What architecture can provide to a city on the run from itself and in a perpetual identity crisis?Because Venice is still today a powerful model to work on and experiment, because is a city in balance between water and earth, between real life and turism, between theme park and ancient history, hyper natural and artificial, between a sedimented living and new nomadism forms.All this confirm it as the place for experimentation and imagination. But, seeing the sensitivity of the subject and the rare

Few days ago it appeared the news of the “discovery” of a project by Palladio for the radical reform of the Palazzo Ducale, which was never launched due to fever, wars and few finances (classic architecture ambitious).Antonio Foscari, in his book “Unbuilt Venice” tell of a large square building, completely covered by giant order of columns, to be carried in place of the Gothic building next to the San Marco’s Basilica.A powerful building, self-powered in its dialogue with the other creatures of the great Vicenza, the Church of the Redeemer over the waters of the lagoon, and along with another dream, like the project for the Rialto Bridge, which doesn’t see the light and that enriches the inexhaustible archive of absorbed projects, maybe killed, by the power of this city.Because Venice is like a jellyfish, hypnotic and compelling that it attracts, as always, all ambitious travellers and visionary investigators, but the rarely gives palms of its precious land ripped by water and slime.Some people wrote that Venice has anticipated a thousand years the island of Utopia by Tommaso Moro, but I think it’s impossible to tackle this city without falling into a possible clichès of modernity, including tics and obsessions.Because Venice is one of the few places in the world that has always had the ability and power to attract both high and low, mixing them in an atmosphere that is both a place of spirit and body, aspiration for the impossible and quest for beauty at low cost, is like saying Brodsky and MacDonald, gondolas and Le Corbusier, Wright and Florian, carnival and Kahn, Murano between Scarpa and shoddy, the suite at the Danieli and the crowds hit-and-flee, the Biennale and the Rialto market, the Harris Bar and wine bars, Tafuri and Harlequin, where everything is reflected in its double-mixing values, meanings


precious place, we cannot expect to present to the ball with the noble and anciety city, devoid of conscious and respectful thoughts.I don’t think Venice can still support the usual pseudo-futurist architecture vanity fair, but rather the idea of living an unusual vision and design laboratory where theory can lead to real and necessary progress.What do we want to give to this city and how we can think to listen her to avoid another row of images and useless and trivial thoughts?Do we want power to relegate this site to be preserved under glass like a magic crystal ball with built-in snow?Or do we want to imagine for this boundary between sky, land and water, a different, unexpected destiny and so exciting for the other destinies of our architecture?Who says people won’t return to live in Venice, if places and conditions will be different?

Why is it necessary that this site is only intended to be consumed by billions of pictures, movies and latest generation cellphones?Architecture has the power to settle into places in different ways and to persuade clients to be bold when it didn’t seem possible.I think it’s exciting to think about Venice as a great contemporary laboratory in which reshuffle the cards with free and open-minded generosity.I think of this city in which you’ll launch projects and visions as a place where you could live, where you want to bring your partner or mate, in which you hope to raise your children and where your thoughts, will certainly take a different direction, not necessarily wiser, but more loving and attentive.


COMPETITION PROGRAMME

1.1 City Vision1.2 Venice City Vision: Nature and purpose of the competition1.3 Procedure of participation1.4 Language1.5 Registration1.6 Questions and Answers1.7 Awards1.8 Submission of boards1.9 Panel of Judges1.10 Methods of evaluation of proposals1.11 Results of the competition and publication1.12 Schedule1.13 Rules and Regulation of the competition. 1.14 Rights and Property


1.1 City Vision

CityVision is a forum for investigating the contemporary city through the lense of its future image. By means of competitions, installations, and exhibitions of visionary architectural creation, City Vision strives to be a catalyst for local governments to facilitate the development of young architects and designers entering the workforce.

Our goal is to promote and augment critical advanced practices, often including emerging ideas generated in academia and professional studies worldwide. It is a means to explore the potential reality and future of planning, architecture, and design practice through information exchange, events, and projects.

General [email protected]

1.2 VeniceCityVision: Nature and purpose of the competition

Venice CityVision is an ideas competition, which challenges architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives individuals to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this case Venice. Through innovative ideas and methodologies which can improve the connection between the historical, present, and future city. City Vision aims to foster a critical evolution of architectural historiography.The Italian city manifests a consistent absence of Contemporary Urban Planning and relatively ineffective architectural intervention. The objective of the competition is to drive your imagination, by the use of new materials, eco- technologies, parametric software and territorial organizations for a future vision of the city of Venice. Globalization, environmental concerns, the future historiography of the city, adaptability and emerging digital practices are some of the elements that should be taken into consideration.

Venice CityVision Competition focuses on the revealing of the urban context as a newly launched syntax of diverse terms. If one imagines the existing area as the creational canvas then on

a mixture of Baroque and Renaissance fragments, one is invited to propose an original dialogue, an advanced element, as if inserting a new exhibit in an ever-existing museum. Aiming to highlight the intense water border, that divides the vertical body of the city in two parts - above and underneath it - the proposals given should reinterpret the symbiosis, the antithesis or even the collaboration of the three parts: the lower and upper urban segments, as well as the in-between limit.If the particular case of the city of Venice would be translated verbally as a live microcosm in constant – yet discreet - change, then as focal point of the competition stands the element of a delicate motion. This specific urban example is appointed, one one hand, to represent a moving city – concerning the as-said phenomenon of sinking – but also a city in which the transportations are being executed in a special way. Architects, engineers and all kind of creational artists are invited to participate in a competition that attempts to answer the following questions: How can a subtle city movement be expressed through a design proposal? And how one may develop his work according to a vertical or horizontal axe?


1.3 Procedure of participation

Architectural competition in a single phase. Participation in the competition is open to Architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives world-wide. Individual or group entries are permitted. The indication of a group leader is required.

1.4 Language

The official competition language of the competition is English.CityVision will provide also a competition brief in Italian language but the final proposal must be submitted only in English.

1.5 Registration

Architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives are invited to take part in this competition. Temporary groups are allowed especially if they are multi skilled. Being multi skilled is an important characteristic because it can help to understand and to better represent a global vision of the city.

Participants can register at www.cityvision-competition.com

- before the 04th April, 2011 paying via paypal with a fee of 50€ (early registration deadline)

- before the 27th May, 2011 paying via paypal with a fee of 70€ (late registration deadline)

There is an entry limit of one proposal per individual/team and there is no limit to the number of participants per group.

After your registration CITYVISION will provide by email a registration number which must be included on all entry panels.

1.6 Question

Further character references should be sent via email to to the following email address:[email protected] on and before 22.00 hours (Greenwich Time), 21st March, 2011 inclusive.

Answers to f.a.q. are already on the website page Q&A.

1.7 Awards

1st place € 2.000 2nd place € 1.000

And 6 Honorable Mentions.


1.8 Submission of boards

This is a digital competition and hard copy proposals will not be accepted. All entries are to be submit-ted via e-mail on and before the 6th June, 2011 (hours 22:00 Greenwich Time) to the following email address: [email protected].

The attachment, packed in a ZIP file, should include 2 boards of project in A2 horizontal format, a technical/written report in A4 format and partecipation data in A4 format.

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BOARD 1: in A2 horizontal format with the principal image of the entry useful in showing in its entirety the planning idea; saved as follows: (xxxxx_01.jpg).

BOARD 2: in A2 horizontal format which describes the project in detail with proposed sections, elevations, planimetries, schemes and images which will be useful for the understanding of the project; saved as follows: (xxxxx_02.jpg)

TECHNICAL/WRITTEN REPORT: in A4 vertical format 1 pages of useful text to explain the planning proposal; saved as follows: (xxxxx_description. doc)

PARTICIPANTS DATA: 1 file doc containing the names of the participants with profession, address and email; saved as follows: (xxxxx_info. doc)

Entry ID numbers must be positioned in the upper right corner with required dimensions 1cm X 5cm.Entries are encouraged to inclued all necessary information to clearly explain the proposal. Board resolution should not be less than 300 dpi, RGB color mode in JPEG format. The entry ID number must be included on the top right hand side of all layouts, which is issued by CITYVISION at registra-tion. No other form of identification permitted.

The file names should quote the entry ID number followed by an underscore and number of the board as follows: xxxxx_01.jpeg and xxxxx_02.jpeg. The same system is to be used for the technical report (xxxxx_ description. doc) and the participants data (xxxxx_info. doc)

All files should be packed in a ZIP file labeled with your Registration Number, as follows: xxxxx.zipThe choice of the graphic representation is completely open to the entry team. Refusal of any entry may occur if the mentioned guidelines and methods are not met.


BJARKE INGELS (BIG Architects) Copenhagen / New York Jury Presidentwww.big.dkBjarke Ingels is a Danish architect, head of the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. He studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and in the Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona, receiving his diploma in 1998. From 1998-2001 he worked for Office of Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam. In 2001, Bjarke Ingels returned to Copenhagen to set up the architectural practice PLOT together with Belgian OMA colleague Julien de Smedt. They were awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004 for a proposal for a new music house for Stavanger, Norway. Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke has been active as a Visiting Professor at Rice University School of Architecture and Harvard Graduate School of Design and currently at Columbia University’s, Graduate School of Architecture.

NERI OXMAN (Material Ecology) New Yorkwww.materialecology.comNeri Oxman is an architect and researcher whose work attempts to establish new forms of experimental design and novel processes of material practice at the interface of design, computer science, material engineering and ecology. A graduate of the AA School of Architecture and previously a medical scholar at the Hebrew University and the Technion Institute of Technology, she is currently based at MIT where she is a presidential research fellow and a PhD candidate in Design Computation. Neri has recently been recognized as a Revolutionary Mind 2008 by SEED Magazine, featuring a collection of her work and research in design.

ELENA MANFERDINI (Atelier Manferdini) Los Angeles www.ateliermanferdini.com Elena Manferdini graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later from University of California Los Angeles (Master of Architecture and Urban Design). In 2003 Elena Manferdini founded Atelier Manferdini, a highly visible design office that advocates design excellence and is recognized internationally for its ability to create imaginative architecture, fashion and object design. The work is based on the philosophy that design can participate in new developments defining our culture; translating the complexity of contemporary technology into built form. Currently the firm is designing a 250,000ft² master plan in Macerata, Italy. Recently the firm collaborated with numerous industries, including MTV, Fiat, Nike, Alessi, Guzzini, Ottaviani, Leucos, Valentino and FolliFollie.

1.9 Panel of Judges

The projects presented will be submitted to the judgment of the jury that will endeavour to examine all the entries and to elect the winners.

The Judging Panel is composed of 4 members and a presiding president.


MARIA LUDOVICA TRAMONTIN (Università di Cagliari) CagliariMaria Ludovica Tramontin is a registered engineer in Italy and co-founder of ASPX. IT studio, a design practice based in Cagliari (IT) focusing on design and research at the convergence of technology, environmental consciousness and contemporary culture. Her interest in technological advancements, conventionally used to ‘support’ architecture, reflects in fact a desire for an understanding of how these can be inducted into the design from the upstart in order to inspire novel architectural constructs. Her work has received several awards, most recently (1st prize) for a competition for 60,000 m2 Hospital (Nuovo Ospedale SS. Annunziata di Sassari) with a project that engages the latest trends in renewable energy sources. ASPX.IT studio is participating in the BaaM – Biennale dell’Architettura e delle Arti del Mediterraneo 2010. She has previously worked at NOX on projects like the Son-O-house in the Netherlands.

BOSTJAN VUGA (Sadar Vuga) Ljubljanawww.sadarvuga.com Bostjan Vuga graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (1992) and continued post graduate studies at the AA School of Architecture in London (1993-1995). Since 1998 he lectures at architectural schools, conferences and symposiums in Slovenia and abroad. In 2003 he was a studio tutor at Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He was, also, a visiting critic at AA School of Architecture, at Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau, at the IAAC in Barcelona, at the ETH in Zuerich, at the Universitaet fuer Angewandte Kunst Wien and in the Academy of Visual Arts Vienna. He had published numerous articles on current occurance in architecture and urban planning, presented in national and international professional and broad interested publications.


1.12 Schedule

16th February 2011 Announcement of the competition

21st March 2011 Question submission deadline

04th April 2011 Early registration deadline

27th May 2011 Late registration deadline

6th June 2011 Submission deadline

June 2011 Announcement of results

September 2011 Projects exhibition, Awards Ceremony and Conference

1.10 Methods of evaluation of proposal

The entries will be judged based on the following criteria:

1. Visionary potential; On the base of which the jury will concentrate on originality, sustainability, and the innovative character of the proposal.

2. Architectural integrity; Formal composition, integration with the urban environment, design sensibility, in the context of which the jury will review the coherence of the proposal.

3. Ecological sustainability.

1.11 Results of the competition and publication

During June 2011 CityVision will publish the official results on the competition website www.cityvision-competition.com


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1.13 Rules and regulation of the competition

To take part in this competition, all applicants must accept the rules. Every infringement of the rules will be noted and subject to the evaluation by the panel of judges. The participants in particular (however, without any limitation) irrevocably accept the royalty-free publication, in particular of their respective names.

This is an anonymous competition and the Registration Number is the only means of identification. The files containing the personal information are confidential and known only to the Organizer Responsible and will not be revealed to the Panel until the final winners have been selected.

1. The official language of the competition is English. 2. The enrolment fee is not tax deductable. 3. Applicants who try to contact members of the jury will be disqualified.4. Participation requires that all the above rules are adhered to.

1.14 Applicants and their property rights

USE and PROPERTY:All enrolments in the competition will remain in the care of the Organizer, who has the right to publish or exhibit the material presented according to the formal procedure indicated in the present program, without obligation of remuneration to the applicant. During the period in which the projects are in the care of the Organizer, the organizer has the right to use the material for educational purposes, without obligation of remuneration to the applicant. DISAGREEMENTS:Any disagreements that rise between the organizer, Operating Body of the panel, including disagreements with one of the above conditions will be resolved by arbitration IN CLOSING:This competition is subject to the terms of this program. The program of the competition is the definitive declaration of the terms and conditions of this competition. The conditions are binding for the Organizer and the panel of judges. By presenting a design, the participant declares that he / she is aware of and accepts the terms and conditions of the competition.


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