Competitor	EKIP
	http://www.ekip.ca

	HaiRarchi.design


	Planneur
	http://www.planneur.com

	Gensler
	http://www.gensler.com

Team	Thierry Beaudoin
	Roberto DeMarco
	Pierre Gendron
	Philippe Paré
	Francis Novak
Doc. level	50%

Description

The starting point for thus proposal is to imagine an invisible line that crosses Venice. Three points along the line break the city into fragments. Each point is unique because of the way in which Venice exposes it. Each of the three fragments of the city is unique because of the particular way in which the pavilion located there influences and describes it. Thus, Track 1 is the result of the superimposition of two distinct systems and of their reciprocal relations.

1. Mega scale: The Bridge is an element of speed; it is extended over the organic fabric of Venice. The extension (axis) over the Grand Canal (fluid): a creation of intersections.

2. Metro scale: The intersections become places of transgression. Each stage, each platform provides an opportunity to transgress boundaries (water). The particularities of the intersections generate each stage.

3. Micro scale
a. Arrival/departure
Leaving the train station, the first stage is an introduction to Venice and to the following stages.
b. Bridge
The second stage is a bridge that appropriates the boundaries of the canal and a broad terrace (exhibit space).
c. Observation quay
The third stage is comprised of an exhibit platform, and walkways that start at the edge of the Royal Gardens and project over the water (frontier).

4. The Final Stage
Arrival/departure - Bridge - Observation quay (Unification)
The cognitive construction is made by the urban flâneur after the experience of the three stages. The new frontier of the architectural territory can be realized in other cognitive or physical spaces.

To know Venice is to dream that fragments of space and place fit together in a free overlay of memories. In this dream, the realities of Venice, like all other cities, is at last perceived as incomplete.

(From competitor's text)

Jury Report

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