Venice Arsenale

Foundations of Decay — designing for the death and rebirth of Venice.

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The brief demands a working guild inside a protected shell that floods. The orthographic set resolves it as a raised platform holding workshop, guild hall, and mezzanine, with canal-side access woven through the perimeter. The set runs from 1:500 site strategy to 1:200 floor-by-floor plans, sections, and elevations, organised so each drawing answers a specific question about the same insertion.

Site plan 1:500: borrowed Arsenale shell within the north quarter.1 / 5

Long section 1:200: borrowed shell, inserted timber and steel frame, raised 1m above tide level.

South elevation 1:200: Murano glass screen filtering the workshop's principal daylight.