Poveglia Student Housing
Poveglia, Venetian Lagoon
Concept design
Prefabricated student housing on Poveglia blends Venetian courtyards, shared terraces, and affordable, light-filled living.
On Poveglia's northern shore, our proposal for student housing is new, modular and prefabricated units that are fast to build and affordable to produce. Two typologies, Atrium and Combined, draw on th...
- Year
- 2023
- Program
- Residential
- Size
- 504 m²
- Role
- Concept Design
The layout is made in several steps. First, the routes of primary circulations were established so that the future settlement is deeply integrated into the natural context of the forest and lagoon. And then, that initial network was branched out by forming access paths to smaller clusters of housing units. In this way, a network was obtained, a complex system of paths, residential clusters, private, semi-private, public spaces, and dense natural environments.
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