Programs: a footbridge and a museum about Venice history
Floor area: 1000 m²
Place: replacement of the Academy Bridge, Large Channel, Venice, Italy

General Principles: To respect Venice environment, while proposing an original and new museum, a take-off… A transparent bridge gives access to a museum under the channel.



The project

An asymmetrical glass bridge {idea of a take-off} makes it possible to cross water in every direction.
- Along the channel by boat
- Walking from a bank to the other: The crossing is done first by taking an elevator which leads us to a public garden on roofs level, then by naturally descending along the footbridge towards the other bank {or conversely}.
- Or ‘walking’ vertically to go down in the town depths, under the channel. The visitor crosses the water surface to penetrate in a museum which contains the history of Venice.

2006