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The Anatomy Lesson | E12, Special Mention

Europan 12 - Venice, Italy


The Anatomy Lesson is an effort to restart thinking the form of the city.

In the latest years contemporary architecture thought the city starting from its image.

Very often the solution to urban problems was put into the hands of the image, believing that make-up could hide wounds that instead need surgery. So we propose to build not the image, but the form of the city of Mestre.

We operate an anatomical dissection of the body of the city, a deconstruction to reveal hidden traces. The result is a map purified from the disconnected parts of the city that, due to their generic feature, have buried the urban form. It is a diachronic map showing only the fundamental elements: the organs of the city as new starting point to generate the form.

The map shows us a Mestre in-attesa

From here we start.

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