Laboratory abstract

"The Place of Glass Murano: Past_Present_Future" A fundamental studio theme is the investigation of the interplay (continuity and/or fracture) amongst tradition, history, heritage, modernity, transformation, innovation, and change, with examinations and explorations that will link the past, present and future to the contemporary world and the contemporary sense of things, with an explicit awareness and connection to the past, as well as with an eye to the future. The specific focus of the studio is about the future of Murano, Italy and specifically its long-standing position with glass and glass making. While this falls within the general condition of towns (in and beyond Italy) currently facing declines in populations, economic activity and overall sustainability, the particular historical and current conditions in Murano and with the artisan glass factories are specific and particular. The student's work is at various scales and in various ways, including master planning at the urban scale and specific developed interventions at medium and smaller scales. The studio’s primary collaborator and sponsor is WonderGlass; in addition others collaborating partners are: Nason Moretti, BTM and Punta Conterie.

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Project Description

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Own Place

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Course: Contest Design Studio (Sezione I3)

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Academic Year: 2019/2020

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Professors: Peter Di Sabatino, Barbara Di Prete, Frank Clementi, Monica Mazzolani

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Tutors: Claudia Mastrantoni, Savina Radeva, Nicoletta Intrepido, Althea Gailli

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Partner: WonderGlass (primary collaborator and sponsor), Nason Moretti, BTM, Punta Conterie

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Students: Berilsu Cambaz, Aysu Kucuker, Ilaria Odoli, Sara Valassina

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Own Place is where you feel at home. It is where you are free to be yourself. It is comfortable, welcoming and made by the community. You always take care of it. Own Place Murano gives a new social role to glass companies: cooperating, they will become first actors in the enviromental improvement of the island. In the new eco – sustainable Murano, CO2 emissions are reduced, the water is clean, the electrical energy drives boats and the quality of locals’ life gets better every year. Murano is a small island inside the Venice lagoon and belongs to the Venice – Murano – Burano municipality. It has about 4 thousand of inhabitants and it is renoved for the long tradition of artistic glass production. In the last recent year, it is loosing its popularity and being visited from less and less tourists year by year. Not to mention the amount of counterfeiting products which are populating more and more the shops of the entire Venice territory, creating economical issues to big, but especially small glass companies. All this aspect are at the base of a crisis, not only of the glass sector, but also of the entire island system. That’s the reason why an innovative design solution is required to give a new birth to Murano, driving a new development of the whole lagoon. The project is based on the idea to give a new social role to glass companies, offering them the possibility to have a positive impact on the enviroment. That’s reusing their heat, which is daily produced and wasted in the athmosphere. Facing the lack of gathering spaces and green areas, Own Place has also the purpose to green Murano, taking advantages of trees and their capability to absorb CO2 emissions, but also to make comfortable and welcoming the landscape. But that’s not all: Murano is planned to become an autosufficient place, in which new food, clean energy and water are produced and the community cooperates to buid its own economy.

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