Thinking about a new housing strategies for living in the future means not only giving of physical responses, but also initiate a series of processes of long-term development.

[Paradigms: new global drivers] Therefore our proposal is driven and enhanced by a series of global drivers from which we imagine a possible way of residence, that investigates a revolutionary relationships between human beings,  environment, technologies. The space resulting is a vision of this revolution so to crumble traditional relationships between outside/inside, socio-economic diversity, change/adaptability, public/private, communication/connectivity, permanence/impermanence.

[Process: from building to green]

The structure of any western city (i.e. Venice Mainland) is based on the centrality of the physical heritage, made of hard concrete, and based on the myth of production. On the base of the new paradigms, our project starts from the assumption of the global changes. For instance - in the context of the Venice lagoon - the increase of sea level and the loss of biodiversity are the driving forces able to generate a  new scenarios in the urban order and therefore able to generate opportunities for more suitable ways of living for people.

We propose a urban scenario which address the city towards urban resilience, able to control the risks generated by climate change, to increase biodiversity within the urban fabric, and to design a new cycle of water resources.  The citizen’s safety and amenity will raise awareness towards environment, but also enable new business processes around the city, while respecting the future of the next generations.

Our desire is to give a revolutionary approach to urban architecture, that is understandable and handled to all citizens meant as potential stakeholders.

All of this will be the physical ground to generate a diverse human settlement within 2050.

[Morphology: imagine a new map of  Venice Mainland]

In the simulation context of Venice Mainland, fast grown as a city agglomeration in the last  50 years, we will let the water penetrate between asphalt road and concrete residential buildings, to create a new morphology of lagoon water and land, and we will let it flood.

In general terms the whole morphology, the context we can picture right now, is considered as a fake reality, by the forces of the next changes.