BAM!’s Venice CITYVISION Concrete Island Spectacular!

Sep 2011

By Samuel Jacobson — Filed under: Awarded Competitions ,Fastco Design , BAM!, Concrete Islands, Italy, Venice, Venice CITYVISION

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Venice CITYVISION First Prize - Alberto Bottero, Simona Della Rocca, and Valeria Bruni. Courtesy of Venice CITYVISION Competition

Bottega di Archiettura Metropolitana aka BAM! recently won a Bjarke Ingalls-judged urban design competition for proposing to deal with the Venice, Italy’s rising water problem… with giant concrete bowl islands!

BAM!'s floating island scheme, courtesy of Venice CITYVISION Competition

Sure, the scheme neither addresses how the existing city should retrofit itself nor does it work out some key technical concerns–how does one move from one bowl to another? what happens when the bowls fill with water?–but with renderings so incredibly beautiful why besmirch oneself with such trivialities?

Read more at FastCo. Design

About Samuel Jacobson: Samuel Jacobson studies architectural history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jacobson , Samuel . "BAM!’s Venice CITYVISION Concrete Island Spectacular!" 17 Sep 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed 23 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/162729>

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Duarte says:

There are two ways to destroy venice: the nature and the man. Big is not a big thing to judge several years oh history.

# September 17, 2011 at 18:18

Small says:

“A Bjarke Ingalls-judged urban design competition”

Haha, this is too funny, the way you wrote it; shows how BIG is more important than the competition itself.

# September 17, 2011 at 18:59

mayra says:

An explosion is also Spectacular!… the question is: is it good?

# September 18, 2011 at 04:38

tsiruot says:

Is AD promoting BIG or the winner?

These are old news: it was already published in this website on July 20…

# September 18, 2011 at 04:45

hbernstein says:

on another blog someone mentioned, it would look like an old OMA or Rem Koolhaas project. Does anyone know which project he meant?

# September 18, 2011 at 06:18

Nizball says:

@ Duarte: there are 3 ways to destroy venice: the nature, the man and BAM! And the panels layout is totally the same as Rome City Vision winner’s proposal. Next time: less renderings more ideas!!!

# September 18, 2011 at 07:08

simon says:

for hbernstein, above–

Swimming pools in Delirious NY.

Water floating on water.

# September 18, 2011 at 12:02

jono says:

The competition was to address the rising water problem of Venice.

If you add volumes of concrete into a body of water. Wouldn’t that raise the water levels even further?

# September 18, 2011 at 22:24

Mikko says:

“If you add volumes of concrete into a body of water. Wouldn’t that raise the water levels even further?”

The waterways of Venice are presumably connected to the Mediterranean. I don’t think anyone is going to build a bowl big enough to raise the level of the Mediterranean Sea or the Atlantic.

That said, the bowls would probably affect the flow of water locally during a storm surge or such.

# September 19, 2011 at 07:35

10:51 AM Sep 18th

Melanie

@realorange BAM!’s Venice CITYVISION Concrete Island Spectacular! http://t.co/CgGBSNE1

11:04 AM Sep 18th

Julia Torrubia

BAM!’s Venice CITYVISION Concrete Island Spectacular! http://t.co/EzQUoW38 #architecture

11:52 AM Sep 18th

James

my friend Giulia's archdaily expo http://t.co/I1k80LXA

1:21 PM Sep 18th