Post Metabolic city

Within the project PM800 Post Metabolic city, soil is considered the very first edifying element nurturing the new city, instead of a tainted material to simply isolate and withdraw from. The polluted soil of Porto Marghera, beyond bringing a dramatic social and environmental heritage, embodies the possibility of the construction of a new utopian city (or a real city): PM800 proposes an innovative and visionary program that turns the remediation into a moment of collective reflection on the construction of the future Venetian landscape. 42% of the terrain of Porto Marghera is currently still affected by a wide range of pollutants soaked into its exploited ground. Multiplying the average excavation depth by the area of polluted soil we collect 32.000.000 cubic meters of contaminated earth to restore. This quantity could fill 800 towers with a square base of 20 meters and a height of 100 meters. Precisely in relation to this paradox lays the foundation of this project: hollowing out the ground of the entire industrial site allows for the construction of 800 tower-machines to store and decontaminate the polluted soil on site and produce energy which will feed the new city. The tower-machine becomes at the same time the testing prototype for new environmental remediation processes and icon for the reinterpretation of the vertical city paradigm. Once the reclamation is complete, the tower-machine will be transformed into a living space constructed from the cleaned soil, used as a building material for both interior rear-end collisions and facade cladding.

location:

Biennale of Venice, Venice (Italy)

type:

Exhibition

programme:

Education

client:

City of Venice

tasks:

Extension for the realization of a 2. school section

data:

Building gross surface 230mq

team:

Stefano Peluso

Tecnoplan S.r.l. - engineering

status:

2015 Realized