G2 Competition and research project for Prof. Klaus Loenhart, Institute for Architecture and Landscape [ial], TU Graz [2007]
In the pursuit of the most prized commodities of our time – energy and food, our proposal envisions the Lagoon archipelago as prototype for a future metropolitan regional system, adapting existing local knowledge and infrastructure. A new productive landscape, capable of supporting a regional community of small settlements is thought to establish an integrated and environmentally stable system that builds upon existing biodiversity and production.
Within this scenario, the Lagoon becomes a vast working resource in which eco-systems, energy cycles, and human activities energetically and environmentally are self-sustaining. Natural processes, human activity and technology interact, giving opportunity to restore, renew, and reconnect. Connecting to a traditional and locally cast mindset of environmental balance, the Venice lagoon becomes a network of concurrent influences, hence a prototypical “site of relatedness and dialogue“. (Cacciari)
Team: Prof. Klaus Loenhart, Andreas Goritschnig, Christoph Wiesmayr, Christina Kimmerle in cooperation with terrain:loenhart & mayr
