Renovation Tesa 105

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Renovation Tesa 105

Firm

Andres Holguin, David Morales

YEAR

2012

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

The Venice Arsenale is a monumental complex of
exceptional historic importance:
The city’s shipyard, having grown during the XII
century, developed to become the largest factory in the world for centuries.
The buildings and spaces of production maintained
their original function until the beginning of WWI, being subject to the
constant functional and physical adaptations that followed the technical
evolutions of shipbuilding systems and methods.
During the first half of the 20th century,
the impossibility of adapting the spaces of the Arsenale to the needs of
large-scale industry brought about a progressive abandon of the area resulting
in a general deterioration of its structures.

The reconversion project of the “Tesa 105” building
won the International project design competition launched in 2006 by the Arsenale di Venezia S.p.A. enterprise
for the realization of new project interventions for the recovery,
refunctionalization and valorisation of the northern section of the Venice
Arsenale.

The “Tesa 105” constitutes the new northern access to
the Arsenale and will host the entrance hall with its related services and
offices for the research centers therein.

The project intervention is based upon criteria that
foresee the joining of two different styles of architecture, one that is
historic (container) and the other contemporary (content). Both structures
preserve their formal autonomy and establish a dialogue among contrasting
elements.
The outer walls of the original building, a 16th
century industrial warehouse, will be entirely maintained, while the new volume
remains completely contained within the interior of the building without
emerging past its perimeter walls, as an explicit presence and part of the
building.

The volumetric aspect of the project is inspired by
the way that the ships were once built in the Arsenale, where the vessels’
volumes were elevated onto few support systems allowing for work beneath the
ships’ hull.
Analogously, four small-scale volumes distributed
strategically on the ground floor and open for public access (info-point, bookshop, conference room and café), are to support a larger
scale volume where five office spaces for private enterprise and the offices of
the Società Arsenale di Venezia spa will be located. On the top floor, two
glass volumes will host the main meeting room for the offices below.

The volume of the new structure was moved to one side
of the historic building as to allow for more natural light from the roof’s
skylights and to allow for a clear reading of the original building’s layout.

There are few materials used in the construction (glass,
steel, ceramic coatings) and the chromatic range of their surfaces has been
reduced (white and gradations of grey), as to avoid creating visual conflict
with the expressive surfaces of the original building’s exposed brick.

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Renovation Tesa 105

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