the glass lagoon park

The Murano Glass Lagoon Park is an escape from the con­fines of the labryn­thian Venet­ian city. Its acces­si­bil­i­tiy and open­ness offer a unique oppor­tu­nity to explore local­ized tex­tures and tidal flows, par­tic­i­pat­ing in a land­scape that cel­e­brates and har­vests the pow­ers of local ecolo­gies, and the unique­ness of place.

The Venet­ian Lagoon has been an engi­neered land­scape for hun­dreds of years. Pri­vate prop­erty bound­aries and engi­neered pros­thet­ics con­tinue to impede upon the nat­ural resilience of the tidal lagoon edges, leav­ing entire islands at risk of of sink­ing and flood­ing. The Glass Island is designed for flood­ing, and cel­e­brates the shift­ing shores in a respon­sive, resilient, ever-changing condition.

The Murano Glass Museum is a com­pe­ti­tion entry for the Venice 2G com­pe­ti­tion, and was devel­oped with Glen Karpf for UC Berke­ley Archi­tec­ture Stu­dio taught by Nicholas Demon­chaux and Tim Culvahouse.