29 Nov

On our trip through the Veneto, we stumbled through the fog upon a mysterious little place named Venice. Nothing in Venice is as it seems, actually I should correct myself. Everything in Veneto is as it seems, and then some…A canal is not just water, but roads, and piazzas can be both a place for people to gather, and during certain times of the day, a place for water to gather. This image presents another example of how architecture can become more than just what it seems. Here a door is both threshold and a collector of water. This marble frame was actually apart of the former entry door at the Univ. of Venice’s architecture school. Commissioned with the task of designing a new entry to the school, the architect Carlo Scarpa saw the potentials of the old frame, regenerating it into something “other.” The frame now acts as a threshold between solid and fluid, permanence and movement.