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Academic project
IUAV
Professors: Sara Marini, Paolo Foraboschi, Ezio Micelli
Architecture
Team: Anna Faccin, Francesco Spadini
2022 Murano, a small island near Venice, has long been shaped by its glassmaking tradition. The project proposes a spatial reinterpretation of an existing factory on the island, using camping as its founding concept.
Two key references guided the design: Junya Ishigami's Workshop in Kanagawa and Andrea Branzi's Agronica. Their plans were overlaid onto the factory's layout to generate a selection of elements—vertical structures (iron trees) supporting hanging volumes, and modular ground-level units serving essential functions—that spread freely through the space, avoiding any zoning logic.
The result is a new interior landscape, inhabited in flexible and temporary ways. As a concluding vision, the project imagines these structures expanding across the island, merging artificial and natural landscapes into a continuous hybrid condition.











Camping





Camping is conceived as a way of inhabiting space in direct dialogue with its surroundings, generating ever-changing sensory experiences shaped by climate, light, and landscape. Its structures are ephemeral, reversible, and lightweight, designed to adapt and disappear without permanently altering the existing context. The site becomes a co-author of the intervention, where materials and spatial decisions emerge with the environment. In this reciprocal relationship, camping sustains the landscape and the landscape sustains camping.







representation on the bucolic landscape
representation of the lagoon landscape












References: camping in the landscape





    
Ishigami, Villas in Dali
R&Sie(n), Spidernethewood
Junya Ishigami's Villas in Dali, China, and Roche's Spidernethewood, in the French countryside, both exemplify a profound relationship between architecture and the natural environment. In Dali, giant boulders become structural elements of the project, supporting a lightweight concrete roof while dissolving the boundary between the designed and the preexisting. The result is a fluid, open living experience in which an apparently inhospitable landscape becomes intimate and inhabitable. In the Spidernethewood, a polypropylene mesh structure is designed to be gradually overtaken by vegetation, turning the natural process of transformation into part of the lived architectural experience. In both projects, the tension between the built and the natural becomes the generative force of a spatial dialogue in which landscape and architecture mutually enhance one another.







References: architecture as landscape





The research began by reflecting on camping as an architectural mode of settlement — a dialogue with the landscape and an integration into it. The two main case studies explore the definition of an artificial landscape and the merging of architecture and nature into a condition of diffuse inhabitation.
Ishigami, KAIT Workshop
Branzi, Agronica







New landscapes





The plans of Andrea Branzi’s Agronica and Junya Ishigami’s KAIT Workshop were superimposed onto the glass factory’s layout, serving as the starting point for the design of the new architectural landscape. By treating these three planimetric levels as overlapping layers of a single environment, the process defined areas of varying density, openness, and diffuse architectural events. This initial study provided the framework for determining the final elements that compose the factory’s spatial landscape.
Superimposition of the three architectural landscapes












Starting from the previous floor plan, specific elements were selected to define an artificial landscape within the glass factory, consisting of metallic trees and synthetic grass distributed across both interior and exterior spaces. This landscape is then inhabited by small modular and flexible structures, designed to host the main functions. These structures follow the initial concept of an encampment, settling on the ground as well as being suspended from the artificial trees.



































Future scenarios for Murano





A future scenario is envisioned for Murano, where the natural landscape reclaims space amidst the island's urban fabric. With rising water levels, daily life is imagined shifting from the ground level to a suspended dimension. The synthetic landscape of the glasshouse expands across the entire island, acting as a medium for vertical ascent. These new suspended structures are thus inhabited, integrated with the adaptation of the upper floors of existing dwellings.