Poveglia Masterplan
Poveglia, Venetian Lagoon
Concept design
The Revival transforms Poveglia’s ruins into a self-sustaining university campus, uniting Venetian heritage and communal life.
The Revival reimagines Poveglia, a long‑abandoned, history‑laden island in the Venetian lagoon, as a self‑sustaining university campus. Rather than clear its ruins, we treat them as scaffolding: exist...
- Year
- 2023
- Program
- Public
- Size
- 76,075 m²
- Role
- Concept Design
The masterplan reads the island as a cluster of built quarters bound together by the recovered cardo and decumanus, with the Octagon anchoring the southern tip as it always has. Density is deliberately uneven: buildings pull close where the campus needs shelter, then loosen toward the water and the trees.
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