Yuke Zheng | fall 2020 HAA92R Design Speculations seminar
There exists in Venice a harmful pattern of subdividing residential homes into tourist living spaces that is unprecedented in scale. This pattern drives rental prices up, exacerbates tourism, and depletes the overall housing stock for residential families.
This motivates an architectural intervention: to reorganize, reunify, and resituate Venetian domestic architecture into its broader residential and urban contexts, discouraging subdivision and promoting permanence in residence. This project utilizes a strategy of aperture and terrace to link the domestic programmatic organization to sound, sun, and views in the surrounding urban environment and to unify the interior in section.
