Venice and its industrial district (Porto Marghera): obstructions, sufferings and potentialities

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.13.37.5275

Keywords:

Industrial Heritage, Regeneration, Land Reclamation

Abstract

Objective

This article is about the industrial district of Porto Marghera near Venice. The research is based on a rigorous knowledge of the location, taking into consideration all the protagonists in the various transformations that Porto Marghera went through, and still does. The main goal of the research is to provide those concerned with an objective analysis with which to operate.

Methodology

The methodology of the research is inductive and employs mapping, sorting and cataloguing, in order to deconstruct the different significances of the problem. Mapping the Venetian district has allowed a greater awareness of the areas of complexity and difficulty. This study does not intend to propose particular types of intervention but to illustrate the possible strategies for rehabilitation at a number of levels concerning the terrain, the subsoil, water, buildings, infrastructures etc. putting the accent on their inseparability.

Conclusions

The conclusion is that for such complex and compromised territories, a general strategy or a prescriptive masterplan is not compatible with the specificities of each zone that comprises Porto Marghera.

Originality

The research provides the necessary data with which to define the parameters for the selection of the key points on which to graft the regenerating bio-type.

This research explores the potentials of various mechanisms for territorial recuperation. It shows that the question of land reclamation is just a prerequisite. The forms of recuperation are an integral part of the architectural project without limiting it or depriving it of its usual characteristics such as function, creativity, quality, even beauty.

Author Biographies

Esther Giani, Iuav University of Venice. Department of Architecture Construction Conservation (DACC)

Researcher on Architecture and Urban Composition at the Iuav university of Venice since 2010.

She taught theory and design at the first year studio, holds elective for postgraduates, tutor graduate thesis; at present she coordinates an integrated design studio at the II year.

She has been fellow researcher since 2003 at Iuav with a research on brownfields investigating the industrial area of Porto Marghera on a broader field of landscape regeneration. As aim of the research she did critic remarks as well as practiced didactic, activated projects financing to test the theories and promoted the results trough debates, symposium, articles, books, exhibition, at national and international level. Actar will publish a compendium of tis research. In 2016 she brought several original art works by le Corbusier at Iuav, a book is due to be published (by Antiga ed). In 2017 she started a research on Pancho Guedes work.

E. Giani is referee for high quality thesis research at the School of Civil Engineer in Brescia; is member of the scientific committee board (reviewer) for the Portuguese ReHab (International Conference on Preservation, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings and Structures) and scientific member for FA Magazine.

She did her PhD at Iuav, her thesis on the ENA the National Havana Arts School (scientific referee prof. L. Semerani) has been published as monograph (2007). She attended the international master degree at the Berlage Institute of Rotterdam. Her thesis on urban regeneration has been mentioned for the first local Biennale (2003).

E. Giani worked in architecture office (in Venice at A. Cecchetto’s) and as freestanding architect until 2005 when she decided to dedicate her full time and energy to research and didactic, ever since she did projects for institutional subjects on university agreements basis. She graduated in Venice in ‘98 with the maximum remarks on a thesis related to Porto Marghera conducted under the supervision of prof. G. Carnevale with whom she works since then. She lived in London, Paris and Berlin before and during the university studies, in Rotterdam for more than 2 years and she spent several time in Cuba for her research.

For Iuav E. Giani coordinated the international summer workshop from 2007 to 2012, is tutor for several international bilateral exchange programmes, European and extra European; she is tutor of bilateral agreement based on double degree programme (Mayor university of Santiago del Chile and Belgrano university of Buenos Aires). Her research is mainly on typology linked to environment, land-use, re-function and low-impact technologies looking to Africa as well as to the modern teaching as an upgrading opportunity. Along to her mentor, prof. Carnevale, she is researching also on didactic in Architecture following the University changes since the Lisbon process. She is engaged on the Department of Architecture Construction and Conservation governance since 2013.

Cristina Pardal, School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) - Department of Architectural Technology (TA)

She studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Barcelona finishing her degree in 1996, and obtaining the PhD in 2010. In 1997 she opened her own studio where she developed small-scale project until 2004, when she decided to put an end to this adventure and to focus her activity in collaborations with big architecture firms like Clotet - Paricio Architects, MAP architects, Octavio Mestre Associate Architects, among others. She has a long academic experience. Since 2001, has been teaching building construction in the undergraduate program of the School of Architecture of Barcelona and in Vallès. In 2009 started teaching at the Master program Technology in Architecture. She collaborates at the Master in Lightweight Façades from the Universidad del País Vasco and, the last three years, has also been visiting lecturer at the Master PROY3CTA -Técnicas Avanzadas de Proyectos Arquitectónicos from the Universidad Europea de Madrid. She has been visiting professor at IUAV- Venize during one semester in 2015. She has co-authored several publications with Ignasi Paricio. From 2008 until the end of 2011 has been senior researcher at iMat, Building Technology Centre, working on the development of new prefabricated building systems to be transferred to the local industry. This collaboration generated four patents.

Irene Peron, Iuav University of Venice. Department of Architecture Construction Conservation (DACC)

Architect, PhD in Architectural & urban design at the Milan Politecnico in 2016 (thesis: Competed for potentialities. Porto Marghera, a matter of method). Research fellow at Iuav in 2017 (research: Elements of Porto Marghera. An handbook) and in 2013 (research: Humble landscapes: regenerations programs). Graduated in 2009 at Iuav with a thesis on the Venetian industrial district. She assists G. Carnevale and E. Giani in the didactic commitments at Iuav and participates to the research activities of the dismissed areas and landscape regeneration Iuav research unit. She worked for C. Zucchi (Milan 2008) and for MELA media lab (Iuav 2010). She edited some numbers of the «Iuav magazine» and edited the books Terra di mezzo (Venice 2012), Wetlands (Rome 2013) and Occasioni di ricerca (Milan 2014). She Organizes exhibitions and debates, she writes articles and attends international symposium about brownfield theme.

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Published

2018-06-30

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Year 13, issue 37 (Jun. 2018)

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