Reticolo Polimorfo, Sine Terra WAVe 2014. Venice (2014)

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Workshop tutored by Sara Marini and Benno Albrecht.

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Like a climbing shrub, the volumes of Sine Terra grow freely around a structural grid — a reticolo polimorfo that enables adaptation, differentiation, and transformation in response to the changing conditions of the ground it rises from.

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As in a mineral’s crystal lattice, capable of taking on multiple configurations, the structure evolves through its relationships with the terrain. Each bond generates a unique composition of solids and voids, open and enclosed spaces, light and shadow — an architectural ecology of coexistence.

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Its vertical momentum defines an ordered wood of pillars that lifts the grid above the contaminated soils of Porto Marghera, a landscape scarred by industrial exploitation. From this compromised ground — suspended between toxicity and redemption — the structure proposes new levels of life.

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The intervention unfolds as a medieval animal besieging the uninhabitable, reclaiming the polluted land to return it to collective use. Beginning at the site’s edges and extending between land and water, it adapts to functional and ecological demands. The deliberate detachment from the ground becomes an act of care and resistance: an elevation that redeems the sky and reimagines inhabitation as recovery.

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Here, the Matrix — both structural and symbolic — articulates space as an act of reconquest, reterritorialising what was once lost. The project envisions a landscape of renewal where architecture becomes an instrument of purification, a grid for life to take root again.

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Tutors: Prof. Sara Marini, Prof. Benno Albrecht
Workshop: Sine Terra, part of WAVe 2014.
Institution: IUAV University of Venice

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