Work commissioned by Venice Pavillion. 15th International Architecture Exhibition. Biennale di Venezia. Venice, ITA

There are places that man has exploited to the point of rendering them inhospitable territories. Anecumenical places and peripheral spaces where the project is driven not by desire but by the absence of resistance and where the human presence is not only superfluous but alien. Porto Marghera is a space governed by machines whose ever-growing autonomy, combined with the gradual deterioration of the production plants, led to a progressive and irreversible depopulation of the area. Porto Marghera tells the story of all those landscapes that are sacrificed on the altar of progress because other landscapes can shine with their beauty and boast of their uncontaminated purity.  In a deliberate abandonment the project proposes a large exclusion zone where nature is left free to proliferate and human activity is confined to discontinuous productive islands that survive in the new post-human ecosystem.

M.U.R.O.