Mario Cucinella’s new amphitheatre in Venice blossoms like a flower

Mario Cucinella Architects has designed a scenic space in fusion with the landscape of the San Servolo island, blending ancient values and contemporary technologies.

On the occasion of the VID - Venice Innovation Design - Intermezzo, the event dedicated to sustainable design that anticipates the VID - Venice Innovation Design 2025, scheduled for May 2025 during the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects presented the new project for an amphitheatre on the island of San Servolo, the historical “island of the mad” (it was the home of the Asylum) which has been regenerated since the 1990s and converted from a space of segregation into a place of study and multicultural exchange.

The work exalts the a-temporal values of listening, dialogue and learning conveyed by the ancient typology of the amphitheatre, here innervated with contemporary energies readable in the design concept and in the technologies of the materials.

The scenic space is integrated in the lagoon landscape in which it is located (the visual backdrop is the island of the Armenians) thanks to its fluid forms obtained by 3D printing and sustainable materials, evoking a living organism sprung from the ground or the corolla of a newly bloomed flower, ready to open to the public.

MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects, Un fiore a S. Servolo, Venice, Italy 2024

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