Since the island Poveglia has its center at the historic city of Venice, our first aim at this competition was to identify some of the special features of the floating city, famous for its rich architecture. Our observation was that Venice consists of free-flowing repeating units-buildings, with atriums and façades that have a consistent rhythm. Poveglia, on the other hand, is an island that has big free spaces of green and nature, as well as gaps that have been created by the pre-existing buildings. In order to integrate with the island, we created an architecture concept that would respond to the above.

So as our main theme was the repeating free flowing units-buildings. Firstly we connected the pre-existing buildings with four roofs protected Secondly since the size of the university required new buildings, we decided to respect and restore and reuse the old ones without many changes and created new buildings which consisted of a units turning it into a building with an atrium. They are placed in such way and in such heights that they continue the imaginary boundary of the old ones and respecting the nature of Poveglia.
Island they are placed at the free green spaces mentioned above. Also in dialogue with the old, we placed windows to the new buildings in the same rhythm as the old. Last but not least the construction of the new buildings is a façade of many louvers and by the blurry glass that dresses the concrete building, in order to give the building an impression of the Venetian romantic style and in order to conserve the “ghostly sense” that has been created throughout the years.