Drip feed

Venice Lagoon Park
Venice, Italy
2008, International Idea competition, First Prize
Client: 2G. International Architecture Review
Cyrille Berger
Partner: Thomas Raynaud
Surface: 31 hectares

Our project for the urban park of Sacca San Mattia consists of reinvesting the island in a Venitian, multi-functional approach to urban planning, in the context of an enlarged metropolitan, touristic center.
  The Drip Feed project on the Island of Sacca San Mattia puts into place an above ground Ulva rigida cultivation device that is in keeping with the Greenfuel system.
  A Saprophyte structure that ingests polluted waste from local industry. In its day, No Stop City, by Archizoom defined the factory and the supermarket as the key points to the city of the future. In other words, the places where the system turned its own ideological programming into full-scale reality : money's form of logic brought to its extremes - a high level of integration between production and consumption. In a sense, this integration between production and consumption is carried out in the project Drip Feed : the planned construction of an industrial farm, where nothing can be removed, yet everything is for consumption on the site.
Venice and its lagoon, a world of languid sentiments, of decadent love, the city of lovers, the place to take refuge far from the continental metropolises, while admiring the artistic beauty of this insular city.