The project wants to research the measurement of things and the space between them, to understand their relationships of proximity and distance, to explore the nature of existing spaces, questioning whether the land in construction does not carry within itself another potential that the infrastructural engineering project does not bring to the surface. And then, how to make the most of that potential.

The work has something of an exploration: in the historical reconstruction of the changes resulting from the troubled confrontation between the lagoon and the sea; in the analysis of places that as a whole are splendid but that sometimes are poor and fragile in their specific conditions

This project makes it possible to silently experience a rarefied space. And the winter solitude of the lagoon.

This project considers a pedestrian walkway from the ACTV stop (the vaporetti stop) in Pellestrina, to the lighthouse which is located at the edge of the new pier. The walkway is three kilometres long and is understood as a promenade along the shore where several architectural and landscape happenings set out a new environmental system capable of confronting and establishing a dialogue with historical and ecological issues that surface along the way, and develops a strategy of densification of the happenings along the shore, thus minimizing the invasions into the natural protected space of Caroman, which will become “marginalised” from public transit, leisure activities and boat traffic. A “route on the edge”, then, but capable of combining and connecting differences and –sometimes seemingly opposed- multiple elements of the programme.

The “bocca di porto” of Malamocco, located between Lido and Pellestrina, is the main access to Venice’s commercial and industrial harbour (Porto Marghera).

This “mouth” at Malamocco is different to all the others because of the different lengths of its piers and the irregular shape of its south shoreline. The project looks into the “architectural and environmental Insertion” of the conspicuous works and Installations of the MOSE system. It all emerges from the study of privileged points of view and from the need to harmonize the installations placed along the southern shoreline, which sprout out of the ground In a discontinuous and heterogeneous way.

The southern shore is different to the northern shore in that it will hold the majority of the installations planned for Chioggia “mouth”. The greatest of cares has been placed on those points of contact with firm land. The south end becomes closely connected with the existing pier. The side of the plain has been treated in the same way, and its connection with firm land creates a walkway covered in part by a canopy which runs parallel to the central line of the pier, facing a recovered green area, isolated from the installation by a brick wall. Finally, towards the lagoon, the western end of the platform will be directly connected with the San Felice fort creating an exceptional viewing point and resting area well liked up to the stone walkways which reach the old flood protection structures.

Defying gravity, Ulzurrun abandons himself to the details of his works, charging them with subtlety, fiction and manifold allegories. Paradoxes delicately and ironically built. Trapped by their fragileness, he leads us to reflection, using natural materials to highlight the contradictions inherent in the relationship of man and nature. Truths are discovered, lies are…

The pictures were made in an attempt to provide an alternative perspective on the haphazard chaos of Lagos streets. The resulting forms suggest an order that arises in spite of the breakdown of systems designed to ensure order.

Silence and immersion, from the general point of view of Science Fiction, which is crucial in the work and research of OSS. Science Fiction deals with subjects that we do not deem possible to develop on Earth as we know it, however desirable we might find them. It can also help us envisage possible futures in such a way that we begin to make them happen. In both situation Science Fiction practice is very close to that of architecture. Science Fiction transfers us to strange spaces and rarefied atmospheres into which we plunge. Sometimes we only bring silence with us, and our breath becomes almost visible. But it is this intensity which helps us look at our surroundings with renewed attention, refreshed by its own traits and by what might be possible or desirable. It is also our proposal to the spectator that they should plunge into OSS’s processes of research and productive cooperation, turning them into true participants and protagonists of the birth of a new territorial and urban landscape. We specifically intend to expand every citizen’s capacity for action and their power over society’s material structures, intervening and solving the relationship between public and private in order to turn it into a solution which is bigger than its parts, where the new private power of the individual citizen or of groups of citizens creates a bigger and more complex shared welfare. The public is treated as a citizen who is capable of transforming their surroundings exercising their individual or collective power generated by some of the works we propose, or like a privileged onlooker to whom we provide a renewed control of the landscape.