VENICE -A USC School of Architecture program this past semester used Venice as a study model. The students worked collectively on analysis, research and city design strategy for the Venice neighborhood. The findings helped the class develop five urban master plan approaches.
The class mission was to find hidden potentials and inclusive strategies for Venice’s infrastructure, and to create a framework and design tool for re-thinking the city. They sought to uncover untapped potentials, alternative approaches, and future opportunities for a more equitable, inclusive and sustainable urban environment. Using the city’s buildings, open spaces, historic, social, and economic infrastructures, adaptive p/re-use seeks to explore the potentials of modulating, transforming, extending, and reimagining the city vis-à-vis deference for the past, current needs, and scenarios of future adjustments.
A presentation of students’ final findings will be held for the Venice community on Wednesday December 14th at Hotel Erwin in an area off the main lobby from 6 – 8 PM.
Along with the class director, USC adjunct professor Christophe Jantzen, several local architects and builders also participated.