Campo di Marte housing

development at Giudecca island

Campo di Marte housing
Address: Calle Michelangelo, Giudecca, Venice, Italy
Investor:Ater De Veneza
Contest:1976
Project:1985-86
Completion:1995-97, 2004-07


The project does not seek the rupture, but the typological consolidation of the Campo di Marte promoting its integration in the Giudecca, correcting the east-west link of the island according to the present situation and the official planning, and, in sum, relating already built areas with open spaces to maximize process by phases and define the elements of the project.
It is the apparent monotony of the buildings, which constitutes the city, which accentuates the beauty of the monuments, of the remarkable buildings. In Lisbon, the topographic wealth is such that one can not properly speak of monotony. Obviously, the Baixa is systematic, prefabricated, monotonous if you will, but the architectural design is not everything. It plays with topography, with the specificity of monuments, with the movement of people, the passing crowd. This is architecture, the city.
I really like the architecture that is able to accompany the alterations in its program and period, this architecture always alive, always current. I want to preserve that quality of the building. I am not interested in the archaeological reconstitution, but I must follow its vocation to evolve. A smooth, but real evolution, on a par with the very change of life. What interests to me is the defence of that other formidable dimension, which has little to do with the skill of the architect or the skill of the worker.
Álvaro Siza
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