BSc Architecture Unit 8
Fig. 8.19 Kar Tung (Karen) Ko Y3, ‘Venetto Town Hall’. The new architecture is an attempt to find a balance between the old and the new and to exemplify the result of the experiment, in which the architect’s take on the future of Venice manifests itself in the architecture. The architecture exploits the play of light and shadow to reveal what has been preserved and what has been demolished. Negative spaces are created by the demolished segments enabling new contemporary interventions. Fig. 8.20 Aqsa Iftikhar Y2, ‘Landscape of Smell’. The drawing explores the depiction of smell as a colour and the sequence of actions undertaken by the local fisherman preparing their nets. Fig. 8.21 Wenya Liu Y2, ‘Fish Market and Restaurant’. A building on the site of the existing Rialto fish market formed of a eries of interlocking brick arches creating
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inner volumes to nestle the activiites of the market and restaurant. Fig. 8.22 Priscilla Wong Y2, ‘Nursery and Urban Park Model’, short-section. The relationship with the canal, water and shifting tidal conditions is further exploited within the new addition to the Venetian urban landscape.