ARCH 4601 // Piazza Dogana // Verona, ITA // 2015
This work is from the TTU capstone undergraduate design studio sequence: the faculty-led urban study abroad experience. The following work was designed while living and studying in Verona, Italy.
[ Group proposal with D. Voights ]
urban //fabric//
Superior Italian craft in masonry and textiles is identi ed by where two materials come together: seams.
Therefore, the site and project will be viewed through a paradigm of stitching and seaming the site, culture,
and materials together to form a public space.
This approach identi ed the present grain of the site and the defects present within the directionality. The
grain was determined by circulation and materiality on multiple scales. The grain indicated where the fabric
of the site required reinforcement and revealed opportunities for emphasis.
The resultant design comprises of an zone for patrons of the pizzeria, a terraced forum with a focus toward
the river, and the manipulated shell of the dogana. The remnant of the latter allows for a small market area
on the ground level and observation platform on the upper, stitching together the human scale of vendors
and patrons and the macro scale of the city’s skyline.
