The Arsenale is the earliest large-scale industrial area in history. Galeazze, as the shipyard in it, is now abandoned and has become an exhibition area for the Venice Biennale along with other areas of the Arsenale. The intervention is a hotel combined with a craft workshop, by playing with the relation that Galeazze’s transformation from the historical flow of goods (ships in and out) to today’s flow of culture (people in and out). Venetian domestic typology reveals that many later residential forms, including hotels, stem from the Palazzo-Fontego. Thus, by conceiving the Ideal Palazzo-Fontego through geometric proportions and spatial relationships and overlapping it with the existing site, interaction and deformation emerge in response to the context. The main wall of the Ideal Palazzo-Fontego, interacts with the Galeazze wall, generating a fissure that both divides and connects, echoing the architectural forms of Galeazze and the Arsenale wall. This fissure serves as the spatial and conceptual framework of the hotel, applied at varying scales to create a layered architectural dialogue.
