NAVE reimagines Ravenna’s Darsena di Città as a contemporary cultural landmark where heritage and innovation converge. Inspired by the form of a ship moored along the canal, the project transforms the area’s industrial and maritime memory into a lively civic space defined by lightness, transparency, and crafted materiality. With its suspended timber hull, luminous facades, and strong dialogue between land and water, NAVE becomes both an architectural homage to the city’s past and a forward-looking platform for community and cultural exchange.
The project draws from Ravenna’s maritime legacy, transforming industrial memory into architectural identity. The result is a place where heritage and innovation navigate side by side: an emblem of the city’s ongoing dialogue between land and sea.