VoD international - The new road - Holcim Awards 2010-2011

Holcim Awards
for sustainable construction
2010-2011

The new road
Alice Braggion, Anna Brambilla, Alessandro Carabini, Marta Michieli
The New Road: Generator Flows
Linda Comerlati, Chiara D’Agostin, Gary Di Silvio, Pietro Luciani
Porto Marghera-Busan 2050
Lucia Speri, Gloria Pezzutto
Venice - Porto Marghera: A system of fondaci for the East

Holcim Awards 2010/11 | Submission PDF

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Landscape, urban design and
infrastructure

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Italy
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Alice Braggion, f, 1987
Student
via Biancolino 35
35020 | Due Carrare
Padova | Italy
0039 3404130002 |
alice.braggion@gmail.com

Braggion A, Brambilla A,
Carabini A, Michieli M

Project background

New construction
and conversion
Research project

Study program: Master, Study direction: Sustainable Architecture,
Supervisor: Prof.Giuseppe Longhi, University: IUAV University of Venice

Latitude
Longitude
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45°28'10.61"N
12°13'42.48"E
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Further authors: 1. Alessandro Carabini, Student, 1986, m, via Dolce Colle 36, 61011, Gabicce
Mare, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy, 0039 3463226173, ale_carabini@libero.it; 2. Marta Michieli, Student,
1984, f, via Enrico Mattei 57, 35020, Sant'Angelo di Piove, Padova, Italy, 0039 3403215301,
michieli_marta@libero.it; 3. Anna Brambilla, Student, 1987, f, Piazza Italia 6, 26839, Zelo Buon
Persico, Lodi, Italy, 0039 3464110871, zakanna@libero.it
Distribution of prize money
Main Author: 25%, Further author 1: 25%, Further author 2: 25%, Further author 3: 25%

Project details
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GV
Contruction costs
Site area
Footprint area
Floor Area Ratio
Site Occupancy Ratio

sq m
cu m
USD
2840000 sq m
sq m
m
m

Further relevant key figures
User capacity:10.000;free TLC network:20 Mb;Local and Sustainable materials:80%;Sustainable
water:100%;Sustainable transport:100%; Waste:0%;Carbon:0%.
Used materials
Nanotech and biotech building materials; digital surfaces and power systems(e.g.piezoelectric
floors); adhocratic model in space use management; backcasting as designing method; One
Planet ActionPlan.

Project description

This project finds its ideal roots on one hand in Lisbon Agenda, and on the other hand in the so-called New Silk Road (TRACECA_Transport Corridor
Europe-Caucasus-Asia and TAE_Trans-Asia-Europe programmes).
The mission of Lisbon Agenda is to fulfill European target of creating socially just and technologically advanced urban environments; the New Silk
Road, which will link East and West by railroad, sea and digital means, is the backbone of the Euro-Asian relations of the next future. To keep a key
role in the new continental system the European cities must radically change approach and get engaged in the tumultuous growth of Oriental
way of designing, instead of standing out against it.
The described trends can be regarded as huge opportunities for the revival of Venice, a city that can have an active role in the new Euro-Asian
dimension as hub city for the upcoming flows of cultures, goods and people. Our location is Portomarghera ex-industrial area, and specifically via
Fratelli Bandiera, a 4 km road connecting Venice-Mestre railway station to the lagoon. Our New Road, symbolically connecting the northeast of
Mediterranean Sea with the New Silk Road.
New Road is meant as gathering place of the renewed Oriental technological, artistic and cultural creativity on the model of Venetian and
Oriental Fondaci, multifunctional structures able to meet the needs of the most different guest communities. Only if open to integration and
change can the declining European urban contexts be renewed.
In our scenario of year 2050 we outlined the road as an innovative production model, a bare 2D street turned into a 4D infrastructure. Flows of
resources and services run all along the road, permeable and dense at the same time, creating catalytic elements (the knot-buildings) on different
levels and with different interactions. To know, to learn, to trade, to research: the buildings are physical and digital platforms describing a
variable, user-oriented morphology, and act as a filter between the natural environment and the existent urban fabric.
Climate change is one of the key factors we have taken into account when designing, because of the deep impact on morphology, sea level rise,
biodiversity and temperature increase. The strategic target of year 2050 is reached through a responsible way of designing that enhances natural
resources, increases local biocapacity and biodiversity and uses 100% renewable energies.
Our ultimate purpose is to bring forward a settlement and gathering model able to reassert human resources while respecting biocapacity, and
suitable to combine the ever-growing digital side of the city with natural resources. This makes the New Road the result of a sustainable, holistic,
cooperative and creative designing process.

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Measuring up to the target issues for sustainable construction
Innovation and transferability - Progress

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The New Road is intended as a creative place of hospitality not only for the oriental community. It appears that it's only with the welcoming and
opening up to comparison that we will be able to renew the declining urban contexts, for an European reality more cohesive between East and
West. Into it, the space 2.0 and the ongoing definition of the city in real time make possible the use of high efficiency services:the immaterial
infrastructures lead the interactivity to social organization and to a load level reduction on the environment. The incorporation of the elements
that generate sustainability in architectural components makes our idea applicable in different contexts, in a simple way and within the reach of
all. Physical plants,traditionally exogenous elements to building,are fully integrated in the facades,roofs,road surfaces and in every element of the
project;everything plays a multifunctional role generating services and socializing,without consuming energy but producing it.

Ethical standards and social equity - People

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The New Road, through the knot-buildings, gives users as well the chance to act in a collaborative way (for society and environment benefit) as
the opportunity to express their own ideas for developing the urban context. The main challenge is to meet the needs of 10 billion people in 2050,
acting in harmony with natural resources. In this globalized dimension we propose to welcome different cultures and stakeholder. Students,
researchers, local and global citizens have here the opportunity to make their contribution to development: more concentration of meetings
means more sharing and production of ideas, and also more efficiency for the entire system.
-Keywords: tolerance and cooperation
-U-services: health,transport,entertainment,culture,government,community
-Education: points of quick learning and cultural forum
-Fair trade,ethical purchasing groups
-Social Network: digital platforms,communication,information and economy
-Multiculturalism
-Import: technology;Export: socializing capability

Environmental quality and resource efficiency - Planet

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Regarding the site morphological variation due to climate change,we restore a nonstop biotic environment that flows from the lagoon to the
urban area.The metabolic formulation of the project aims at limiting the collection of raw materials,limit and dispose wastes,eliminate CO2
emissions,merging technosphere with biosphere.
-Ecological footprint<1
-100%renewable sources
-Food self-sufficiency
-Animals and plants species preservation
-Integrated water cycle management
-Sustainable transport
-0 emissions

Economic performance and compatibility - Prosperity

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The New Road has a great value-added because it provides high quality interactive services and contributes to produce energy thanks to the
installation of PV systems. Not only it contributes to raise the scientific knowledge rate and positively improves the exchanges of knowledge
between Europe (mostly the Mediterranean northeast part of it) and the East, but it also brings forward the international conventions and EU
objectives about goods and energy consumption and technological innovation.

Contextual and aesthetic impact - Proficiency

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It has positive impact on the surrounding environment because its layout is integrated into the new paths made by the urban requalification of
the existing built.It proposes itself as a transferable model thanks to the technologies that it incorporates,its compatibility with the biotic
production,its interactivity.It also proposes itself as reference model of cross enrichment between Europe and East,showing that economical and
territorial growth is compatible with high environmental quality.

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Project visualization


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Design strategies: generator flows

Sustainable elements of design
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The New Silk Road

The New Road:a global platform

Adhocratic model for space use

To_Know and To_Learn knots

To_Research and To_Trade knots

Backcasting and reached aims

One Living Planet standards

One Living Planet standards
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porto marghera-busan 2050
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Project group 2
infrastructure

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Europe
venice
Italy
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Not Applicable

ms linda comerlati, f, 1986
Student
via sesia 11
37136 | verona
| Italy
+393495931042 |
come.linda@hotmail.it

Project background

New construction
and conversion
Research project

Study program: Master, Study direction: architecture,
Supervisor: prof. Giuseppe Longhi, University: IUAV Venice

Latitude
Longitude
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45°28'12"N
12°13'55"E
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gary, linda, pietro, chiara (left
to right)

Further authors: 1. ms chiara d'agostin, Student, 1985, f, via l. de paulis 7, 33033, codroipo, Italy,
+393475487567, clarute@gmail.com; 2. mr gary di silvio, Student, 1986, m, via avogadro 1/4
cordenons, pordenone, Italy, +393287269988, garydisilvio@libero.it; 3. mr pietro luciani,
Student, 1985, m, san marco 5499, venezia, Italy, +393470346757, pietro.lcn@gmail.com
Main Author: 100%, Further author 1: 0%, Further author 2: 0%, Further author 3: 0%

Project details
GFA
GV
Contruction costs
Site area
Footprint area
Floor Area Ratio

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2820000 sq m
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m

Used materials
We use recyclable and recycled materials (e.g. steel from disused factories) choosing them by
other few simple criteria: lowest embodied energy and certifications (standards for materials'
origin).

Project description

Porto Marghera (hereafter P.M.), the big industrial hub of Venice, is going to switch off quickly: soon after WW2, besides mechanical and
metalwork fabrication, a new huge petrochemical industry took place, sadly known for the transformation of CVM, extremely cancerous
substance, into PVC. In 1971 P.M. reached his maximum expansion (31.000 workers. See img.3). Since then there has been a slow and inexorable
decline: increasing portions of this vast piece of the city overlooking the Venetian lagoon are occupied by industrial archeology. The project title Porto Marghera - Busan 2050- provides two insights. 1. P.M. seen as the european end of the new Silk Road (img.3), no longer or not only a trade
route, but also a cultural way of privileged relationship with the eastern world, a place of hospitality, research and knowledge sharing, attracting
different kind of people, furnace of ideas and creativity. 2. The project moves our attention away from today to a far tomorrow, but for which
there are forecasts concerning weather, climate, demography, mobility and rising sea; there are scenarios, goals, international conventions,
protocols and very efficient tools for sustainable design (img.1-3). Our idea for P.M. 2050 is simple: replace the industry with the production of
biodiversity, biotic soil, water, food, services mainly related to natural resources. Create a barrier along the lagoon, to replicate the extraordinary
biodiversity of both the wetlands and the dune systems and, simultaneously, protect by rising water. Give to this piece of the city a enormous
capacity to absorb, store and recycle water: floods occur every year due to the overbuilding of the total soil and the growing intensity of rainfall.
How do we reach this design for 2050? The main problems are severe soil pollution and costs of traditional environmental reclamation. We
therefore thought of a massive and extensive use of constructed wetlands (phytodepuration on site), which will allow us in future to hold large
amounts of water. But how to create an area of 282 hectares of wetlands and lead the transformation? We use a metabolic process that begins
with a reading of existences, a careful analysis of trends, the involvement of stakeholders who, through public discussions, forums and
smartphone apps (img. 2-5), contribute to define the image 2050. We organize the territory in bands for the phytodepuaration; containment
margins of pollutants are new sites of production of useful energy to the transformation process itself and footpaths leading to the lagoon: the
nervous system of the project. Following is the gradual replacement of surfaces (img.1). The transformation ends with the creation of the
coastline and the installation of a particular production (eg orchard, img.4) behind it.

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In dealing with a project that moves your gaze at 2050 is necessary to rely on studies of those who have tried to speculate that 2050, by analyzing
the main factors threatening the future of our planet. The key role of designers is to respond to the request for mitigation of risk factors and
adaptation to change.
The main effort concerns the process: imagine the transformation of entire cities from the smallest shred, by substitution, in a non-traumatic
way, but rather from the input of who lives there. To illustrate this approach, we made a video that, with the technique of backcasting, explains
the metabolic process which, by its very nature, is irrespective of scale; we've included a few frames at the top of each image.


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We think that the first step of the project is the creation of a website for the discussion on the idea of Porto Marghera 2050 (img.5), to provide
data to anyone, in order to discuss and to frame common objectives. These data are scenarios, trends, international protocols, tools. It is
important to illustrate the potential for transformation and the enormous benefits, also in terms of public health, which can be obtained.
Through the website and the apps users can simulate ideas and share them.


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We imagine the natural resources not only as an existing data to be protected, but also and above all as goods, capable of producing services and
create wealth. Thus the exponential increase in the level of biotic and biodiversity is for us essential. But equally important is how we design
change: to damage new sites by moving the contaminated soil is a nonsense: incidental costs are too high.
We prefer a slow but efficient process of phytodepuration on site, with fewer risks to health and a favorable environmental impact.
At the same time we distribute an extensive network of energy production from renewable sources, especially solar thermal and photovoltaic in
the margins between the strips. This is one of the first steps: having the same processing energies coming from renewable sources, to obtain an
efficient and zero carbon transformation.


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One of the main advantages of phytodepuration on-site is the lowering of incidental costs associated with the transport of contaminated
material in landfills or treatment plants.
The border margins of the strips remain as a skeleton, spreading the initial cost over the long term.
The transformation process, once started, should be self-sustaining: land more and more productive, fewer edges to be built, excess energy sold
to the grid. Flexible metabolic process can adapt quickly to change.


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Changing the face to an entire piece of the city makes it difficult to speak of contestual and aesthetic impact: in our project energetic and
environment issues determine the shape.
Buildings can fly over strips (eg housing) or correspond to the strips rising as transformations of them. This is the case of large public buildings,
from the exhibition center in the north side to the marina in the south.

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metabolic process to 2050

design your city in real time
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design input

design output

collaborative space

marghera & mobility

marghera & buildings

marghera people & connections

marghera energy & bioticity

back to 2011
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Venice - Porto Marghera: A system of fondaci for the East.
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Contruction start
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Project background

Europe
Porto Marghera,
Venice
Italy
Concept
Approval/license not
required
Jan '15
Iuav
New construction
Research project

Latitude
Longitude
m ASL

45° 26' N
12° 15' E
2

Competition
Last modified

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Mar 21, 2011

Country
Status of planning
Formal permission

Ms Lucia Speri, f, 1986
Student
Via Scuderlando 410
37135 | Verona
Italia | Italy
0039 348 9343864 |
lucsperi.iuav@gmail.com

Lucia e Gloria Team

Study program: Bachelors (Final Year), Study direction: Sustainable Architecture,
Supervisor: Giuseppe Longhi, University: IUAV Venezia

Further author(s)
Further authors: 1. Ms Gloria Pezzutto, Student, 1986, f, Via Calbassa 12, 31046, Oderzo, TV,
Italia, Italy, 0039 393 7649129, gloria.pezzutto@libero.it
Main Author: 50%, Further author 1: 50%

Project details
GFA
GV
Contruction costs
Site area
Footprint area
Floor Area Ratio

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cu m
USD
1680000 sq m
sq m
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System for 10,000 inhabitants, and 60,000 commuters
Used materials
New Silk Road, more relationships with eastern, more social cohesion, more biodiversity and
more technology, respect of international convention, scenario to 2050, responsible use to
resources.

Project description

This proposal is born inside an international workshop, with the support of Erasmus Intensive Program, about the New Silk Road, connecting
Rotterdam and Venice with the Eastern countries. The worksop topic was the design of a system of Fondaci, multifunctional spaces localized in
the ex industrial platforms of Marghera Port, ables to attract culture and eastern experiences in order to trigger a new development cycle in the
European urban system. Our project, for the development of a Fondaco for Japan and SEA, was developed inside these experience. The Fondaco
concept is back as an extra national unit, able to promote the dialogue between different cultures. The nations involved in our design are Japan
and SEA with the goals to develop: more relationships with eastern, more social cohesion, more biodiversity and more technology. This project is
based on a 2050 scenario considering a new morphology due to climate change, in particular an increase of the average sea level between 9 and
88 cm. In the Fondaco of Japan and SEA we propose three technopoles: for biotechnology, nanotechnology and telecommunication. In this
technopoles italian and japan people can start a dialog and involve all over the word to develop new content for research and teaching. The
project assume the principles of the New Urbanism, for what concern the space organization. The new technopolitan urban space is walkable and
divided in a system of circular morphologies with a radius of 250 m (walkeables in 10-15 minutes). The fondaco building is on the centre of the
circle and all public activities are concentrated here. Around this fondaco building there are some pavilion (for exhibition and meeting), some
public services (like hospital and sport facilities) and residences for people working here. The project assume the metabolic principles for what
concern the resources treatment: we propose to use Personal and Light Rapid Transit for public transport net, pneumatic waste collection system,
photovoltaic energy and basins to contain water. The urban plan design was also verified in terms of impact on natural resources through
Computation Flux Dynamics and Solar Analysis. The fondaco representative building is composed by two element: a central trunk which contains
and distributes all the flows (the vertical connection systems for water, energy, waste collection) and some box, which have specific functions
(spaces for reflection, space to produce, space for exchange). The connection between the trunk and the boxes follow the basic concept of the
USB system: to be connected to increase capacity on demand. Ideally, therefore, this box-building can be inserted, moved or disconnected
according to the needs dynamic.

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The project complies with the main international conventions and is committed to protecting the environment while minimizing the footprint. It
still offers good standard of comfort due to intensive use of immaterial resources (creativity, wifi): this allows the development of the
dematerialization. This project provide space for people interested in biotech, nanotech and tlc. These technologies can invent new ways to
improve the quality of people's lives and lessen the withdrawal of resources.


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This system takes part of the New Silk Road, linking the platforms of all over the world. Thanks to this network will increase the exchange of ideas
and possibilities for comparison, increasing the creativity. We proposed four different experiences of green where there are group activities, and
the Loop increase the opportunities for meeting people. A lot of service become ubiquitous accessible to everyone with wifi. Technology assets
exceed the distance and bring down all boundaries and limits.


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The solar analysis shows that all buildings receive solar radiaton, especially in winter. The CDF analysis instead ensures that there are no
anomalous behavior in the system of wind and obstacles to the natural flows such as natural pollination, and there are no heat islands. The
average ecological footprint is 2.5 ha / person. With the use of solar energy and electric public transport the emissions are reduced. The pneumatic
waste collection ensures complete recycling of materials.


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The project allows to reconnect venice with world trade network, attracting local and international capital. Our project will advance the goals
through respect for international conventions and European directives on consumption. It will be an example of a project manager, able to
integrate advances in technology, business development and compliance resources.


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The project responds to the principles of New Urbanism. The landmark building is developed in height, minimize attack on the ground and allows
an infinite number of aesthetic combinations. It responds to the need for flexibility of space during the time. Large terraces allow food production
and increasing the biodiversity of the region. The residential units consist of 15 apartments of different sizes to meet different needs.

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Masterplan and its potentiality: body, instrument and territoty. Ecological footprint. U-life.

Biopolo Section. The towers are connected to each Fondaco by the Global Loop. The whole system is elevated and can
reduce soil waterproofing by increasing biodiversity.
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Fondaco's system Scenario.

Climate change.

Aims of project. Three poles.

Definition of project node.

Biotecnology technopole.

Computational Fluid Dynamic.

Fondaco tower. Productivity.
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