Moisture_Muscle
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The project focuses on Venice’s history, its preservation, and the heritage of meat, while also exploring new building materials. Set in the industrial part of Venice, on the island of Santa Chiara.
The proposal uses animal livestock waste, specifically viscera, as a new architectural commodity. These organic materials form pneumatic structures that shape the market space and create vessels for transporting air across the site.
With the average Italian consuming around 76.7 kg of meat per year, slaughterhouses in the Veneto region generate an overwhelming amount of livestock waste.
As Venice prepares to implement new legislation banning cruise ships from entering the city, the now-abandoned cruise terminal is re-imagined as a vibrant meat market. This transformation reclaims Venice’s identity as a center of trade, reviving its former status as La Serenissima.
2023
Technical Study - Moisture Muscle
Meat industry livestock, specifically animal viscera as a new architectural tissue applied to inflatable architecture. Designing a transformative roof structure, responsive to climatic conditions for the Rialto market, Venice.
Material experimentations are made by reconfiguring viscera to condition the space. Animal innards specifically pigs and cows properties are being explored (pneumatic, strength, elasticity, transparency)in order to understand how they can be used in a building system.
Focusing on heat and pressure the viscera are used as an indicator of temperature and space resulting in conditioning the space by their reaction to it.
