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Papers by Matteo Vianello

“The ecological Turn. Design, Architecture and aetetichs beyond ‘Anthropocene”, CPCL 2020 Vol. 5 N. 2, 2020

In: Arboritanza, Succini et al. “The ecological Turn. Design, Architecture and aetetichs beyond ‘... more In: Arboritanza, Succini et al. “The ecological Turn. Design, Architecture and aetetichs beyond ‘Anthropocene”, CPCL 2020 Vol. 5 N. 2, Università di Bologna+TU Delft. Pp. 365-380
ISBN: 9789463665742

The paper’s discourse focuses on Oceanix (2019), an architectural proposal for a futuristic city designed on artificial platforms floating on water surfaces. By focusing on the project advertising images, the paper will try to unfold the idea of the environment forwarded by Oceanix, together with its architectural aesthetics. While being presented as an innovative city with new urban and ecological ontologies, Oceanix embraces narratives of preservation, considering the project as a voluntary exile of a selected community. Finally, the paper will look at Oceanix as a relevant statement for the earthling urban debate since it problematises the replication of land urbanism onto water surfaces, thus making evident the relationships between ground, ecology and architecture.

IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 2020

Editoriale di Raccontare la città, in_bo vol. 11, no. 15 (2020).

Conference Presentations by Matteo Vianello

Social and Institutional Innovation in Self-Organising Cities, 2022

This essay shows a series of strategies and thoughts for design of human settlements built on wat... more This essay shows a series of strategies and thoughts for design of human settlements built on water surface. The described project is a 10’000 people temporary floating settlement, designed as alternative answer to the constant increase of housing demand in Hong Kong. The work was developed as Master degree thesis (tutor: Prof. Arch. Aldo Aymonino) and defended at Iuav Università di Venezia, in 2017. The strategy
is set by two considerations: the first it deals with the main implications related to the floating settlements, the second it reflects on the opportunity given by the water’s surface as a new new territory. Furthermore, it reflects on the necessity of establishing a theoretical/physical dialogue between sea and land surfaces. The research underlined several contradictions and a lack of clear strategies that belongs to contemporary
case studies, giving the project the opportunity to enrich the contemporary architectural debate with alternative strategy and operative tools. The project deals with different urban topics: from temporality and permanence, to infrastructure and public spaces. The result is a complex urban infrastructure, where
the public spaces become the planning and regulation tool of the whole settlement, while different steps of temporality are assigned to each element of the structure, giving the possibility to be adaptable to different demographic scenarios. The strategy embodies all the project’s scale, even describing some different atmospheres and domestic scenarios inside the housing modules, the basic element of the whole settlement.

Books by Matteo Vianello

Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium Cahier 2, 2021

In: Nevejan C., da Mosto J., AbiFarès H., “Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium Cahier 2... more In: Nevejan C., da Mosto J., AbiFarès H., “Values for Survival, the Venice Exploratorium Cahier 2”, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 146-163
ISBN: 978-90-8301-524-8

Carnets: Architecture Is Just A Pretext, 2019

In Andreatta M., Barbon C., Bernardi G., Cusanno A., Cecconello D., Peressa L., Petrosino T., Via... more In Andreatta M., Barbon C., Bernardi G., Cusanno A., Cecconello D., Peressa L., Petrosino T., Vianello M., Architecture is Just a Pretext. Venice: Anteferma, 2019.
ISBN 978-88-32050-47-9

Carnets is a research project initiated in 2017 by eight architecture students within the Iuav University of Venice. The project aims to explore the European architectural scenario, after the economic crisis of 2008, through interviews, discussions, round tables and workshops. The protagonists of this research are 30 young European architectural firms.

The main objective of the research is to explore and discuss the issues concerning the figure of the architect and the discipline in relation to contemporary conditions, through the personal experiences of each protagonist; in the belief that Architecture is just a pretext.

During the two-year research period, Carnets was a publishing project in the form of a fanzine, which was distributed free of charge within the Iuav University of Venice for two consecutive academic years. The weekly publication could be collected by each student inside a container in order to fill a personal Carnets.

In 2019, the project takes the form of the publication Architecture is just a pretext with the collaboration of the graphic design studio M-L-XL, the publishing house Anteferma and the printing house Grafiche Veneziane.
The publication collects interviews with 30 European architectural practices: Atelier Fanelsa, Bonell-Dóriga, Central ofaau, Fala atelier, False Mirror office, Fosbury architecture, La Macchina studio, Mertelj Vrabič arhitekti, Norell/Rodhe, OMMX, Point Supreme, Schneider Türtscher, Studio Maks, Unulaunu, Weyell-Zipse, Boano Prišmontas, Büro Kofink Schels, Conen Sigl Architekten, Dyvik Kahlen, Ganko, Konntra, Kosmos, Martinez Barat Lafore, Oasi Architects, Paradigma Ariadné, Ponto atelier, PYO Arquitectos, Raamwerk, Rloaluarnad, X = ( T = E = N ).