Palazzo Pubblico

Venice, once the stage of a Mediterranean empire, is today suspended between its glorious past and the demands of mass tourism. Its facades form a theatrical backdrop, but the city risks becoming a self-referential image, endlessly reproduced in visitors’ photographs. The project Palazzo Pubblico engages with this paradox by reinterpreting Venetian theatrical facadism and the collective memory of its visitors. Developed for the site of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the design emerged through a collaborative, process-driven method: museum visitors contributed sketches, which were translated into an associative architectural proposal. The work explores how participatory, associative design can challenge static notions of heritage and open new possibilities for contemporary architectural practice.

The Bartlett School of Architecture, 2016-17, Supervised by Prof. Laura Allen, Prof. Mark Smout.