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Venice can be experienced by either land or water. The new bridge will blur the distinction between these two circulation systems by introducing a mediating surface: glass. The glass path of the bridge arches through the “liquid” volume of the museum, allowing views of the water below and a continuous gaze at the opposite shore. The floor represents the only source of natural (indirect) light into the exhibition halls, while the glass path develops horizontally to form an elliptical circulation inside the galleries. The museum emerges from the water following the inverted trajectory of a drop. The polished stainless steel volume mirrors its environment to extend visually the specific street-like scape of Venice.

At urban level, the bridge-museum deploys an inverted process of generating pedestrian circulation. Instead of raising the ground to cross the water, it is the sea that “moves” upward and facilitates the passage. Here, gravity pulls up, generating the museum in form of an inverted drop, and thus minimizing the width at shore and the height in the center. The inverted aspect is doubled by the “skylight” role of the glass floor. Light is reflected from water - which absorbs 80% of the damaging ultraviolet light - through the floor and into the inner cavity, where it becomes distributed into the exhibit spaces. Crossing the water through the inner-bottom cavity allows views in the exhibition halls without the need enter the museum.

 

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The Inverted Drop

Academy Bridge Museum International Design Competition. Arquitectum
Venice, Italy. 2006

Design: M. Razvan Voroneanu

Collaborator: Dan Bolohan

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