Renaissance Piazza
Re-creation centre, Lido Island, Venice
International Competition
Finalist at the International Competition Ctrl+Space
The Marinoni theatre, through its central position and its cultural heritage, intervenes as a strategic site to value.
The intervention aims at affirming its new status as building of public interest. Additionally, a new horizontal volume englobes the theatre and by only its presence reconnects all the entities of the new cultural centre. It brings back a certain clarity to this urban landscape without altering the architectural qualities of the older buildings. More than a reunion of four buildings, which are currently separated, the new volume provides a functional coherence in the combining of different programs, welcoming especially the passage of people. This assumption limits the hold on the existing heritage and goes in the direction of an economy of means that benefits new areas of gathering and entertainment.
The lighthouse, reception area of the new pole, is a testament of a new centrality of Lido Island in acting as a junction between beach and culture.
The intervention cannot deny the rich heritage of this site and of Venice through a casual architecture. A common language of characterising elements of the Venetian architecture must therefore contribute to better promoting the history of the place, to its inhabitants and internationally.
The project minimises the impact on the environment by preserving the local ecosystem, especially the dunes, and limits the pathways in the public space.
As a whole, an inside/outside permeability reveals itself all around the be volume in a subtil game of openings and closings, which allows through the diversity of spaces an appropriation of different uses of the manifestations.
