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The project was born to offer the community a new epicenter planned not only to host professional competitions but also for extensively promoting the culture for sport and wellbeing. Inspired by the inseparable relationship between sport, life and health, the design follows an organic and integrated concept which, in its layout refers to a DNA strand or a complex cellular system. At the “Venice Sports Forest” professional sport, non-competitive practice, training and entertainment will coexist in synergy. The functional program includes:
The plan is located in the Tessera area, near the Marco Polo airport. The site will be efficiently connected thanks to the existing mobility network serving the airport infrastructure and the new railway link under construction, including a dedicated train station. A careful reading of the territory has made it possible to identify the key inspiration element for the landscape strategy in the presence of the Mestre Forest an existing lowland woods that surround the inhabited areas. Thus the landscape takes center stage and widely pervades the project with a 62.5 hectares of new forest, 16.5 hectares of equipped greenery and approximately 60,000 new trees, half of which are tall trees. An impressive new green corridor connecting the Dese river and the northern Venice lagoon is created.
Great attention is paid to sustainability and environmental responsibility: • the development implement the "carbon free" approach by planning systems based on geothermal pumps+photovoltaic; • the design strictly follows the Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) set by the Italian Ministry for Ecological Transition and the DNSH principle established by the EU Next Generation plan; • all buildings target a NZEB energy performance level; • a rainwater recovery and reuse system is planned in order to reduce the consumption of virgin water resources; • the "heat island" effect is mitigated through the minimization of impermeable surfaces and the large provision of tall trees; • the adoption of BMS (Building Management System) systems guarantee an high efficiency in the management of the buildings.
Traditionally, large sports facilities and their surrounding areas remain unused for most of the time and citizens can only experience them as mere spectators. With this plan we propose an innovative perspective, aimed to transform a strictly specialized district into a "civic" epicenter for sport education, social integration and inclusion. A model that combines, reinterpreting them with a very specific slant, the Americans education campus models, where training, sport and sociality integrate perfectly and the Olympiapark in Munich (D), an engaging public realm in which sport, leisure and nature coexist perfectly. The objective for Venice is to create a new dynamic and engaging urban spot, active and alive seven days a week, destined to become an integral part of the community's daily life by offering sports, wellbeing and entertainment opportunities for everyone. For the new stadium and the indoor arena, we envisaged sort of "narrative architectures". The new stadium emerges as a discreet and elegant presence: the structure is wrapped in a "natural skin" which pays homage to recurring images of the lagoon landscape, such as the reed beds or the sequences of poles and "briccole" used for mooring the gondolas and signaling the waterways. The vibrant and iconic structure of the indoor arena is instead inspired by the roller windows typical of the Murano production made up of colored glass discs, assembled and linked together with metal profiles.
"A new regional epicenter of sport, sociality, life, inclusion and sustainability dedicated to children and the new generations to allow them to build a better future". Luigi Brugnaro - Mayor of Venice
MARAZZI ARCHITECTS work in Italy and abroad on relevant themes at the scales of architecture and urban design and with a strong and constant commitment to the research and development of groundbreaking solutions.
The subjects of environmental sustainability and landscape integration of large-scale interventions in sensitive contexts represent a constant focus. Among the most significant recent experiences are highlighted the project for a cultural complex (Dance Academy + Art museum) on the Yenisei river bank in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia), the concept design and master plan for the “New Sports Forest” in the Venice (IT) area, the design for a new indoor sports arena in Cagliari (IT) overlooking the Sant'Elia seafront.
Davide Marazzi regularly collaborates with universities and other cultural institutions for the in-depth analysis and dissemination of topics related to architecture and the sensitive transformation of the territory.
