This experimental preservation project aims to preserve and revitalize the vacant Galeazze—a monumental shipbuilding dock within Venice’s historic Arsenale. This site-specific installation proposal introduces a new anchoring system that replaces the deteriorated existing stabilization system, integrating steel and larch-wood composite members in a web-like configuration suspended from strategically placed columns.
These columns, fabricated with metal sourced from historically relevant European regions, both stabilize and narrate Venice’s geopolitical trade networks for metal. The ground plane incorporates Istrian stone—a historic material used in Venetian architecture for building foundations—to map these relationships, while interpretive displays and flexible canvas panels convey layered histories of warship production, preservation methods, and material culture.
