Venice Research
2012–2020
Fifth Year Architecture
Fifth Year Architecture
For this year’s Architecture Biennale the theme by Grafton Architects was set as ‘Freespace’, inquire into the spaces between buildings that people move through and occupy.
Given The Happenstance responded directly to this theme by creating its own freespace within Palazzo Zenobio, ‘Running threads through Venice’ is a record and exploration of how people’s movements through the city would eventually lead them to the space created by The Happenstance team and what other freespaces they had encountered along the way.
Given The Happenstance responded directly to this theme by creating its own freespace within Palazzo Zenobio, ‘Running threads through Venice’ is a record and exploration of how people’s movements through the city would eventually lead them to the space created by The Happenstance team and what other freespaces they had encountered along the way.

Recorded routes through Venice

Analysis of campos

Collage of campos

Linking campos

Alternative use of campos “free space”