Analysis as a Project

摘要

This article is driven by the research carried out in the last five years at the Department of Architecture Construction Conservation(Iuav of Venice)about the industrial district of Porto Marghera near Venice.While not addressing the area itself,this paper is about the analyses carried out during the research,inevitably a part of the project process.This research is based on a rigorous knowledge of the location,taking into consideration all the protagonists in the various transformations that Porto Marghera has undergone and continues to undergo.The main goal of the research is to provide those involved with objective analysis with which to operate.Objective analysis that reflects the researcher,who is a designer,namely who may use these findings,traces,abacus and matrixes for designing(sustainable)scenarios.The research methodology is inductive [1] and employs mapping,sorting and cataloguing,in order to deconstruct the different significations of the problem.Mapping the Venetian district has allowed a greater awareness of the areas of complexity and difficulty.We are in the field of project analysis:the inductive procedures put in place,re-propose a source(an arché)that can be different from the object investigated.A derivative.The more rational and prudent the development of the analysis,the lower the risks displacement.The work on Porto Marghera,collected as an atlas,as a catalogue(but that would also like to be an handbook)is not therefore necessary to design a masterplan,which sooner or later will surely have to be drawn up.The Atlas proposes the site’s procedural,albeit highly interpretive,reading and aspires to activate analogue suggestions giving rise to “retentissement”,that is phenomena of identification of formal principles,of figures participating to the culture of each protagonist [2].The ultimate goal of this research is to explore the potentials of various mechanisms for territorial recuperation,or rather to show that the question of land reclamation is just a prerequisite.The forms of recuperation are an integral part of the architectural project without limiting it or depriving it of its usual characteristics such as function,creativity,quality,and even beauty.