The need to lead the “Prato della Valle” to pure aesthetic enjoyment, coherently with the instance of a large urban park, led us to propose the removal of trough-traffic and tangent-traffic with the exception of the segment that connects the walls’ centre to the axis of the old gothic district called Santa Croce. The main axis of the median ellipse was taken to identify a pedestrian path that head to the breach of the wall from which the city had spread out: organizing on its right side another portion of urban park on the background of the powerful structure of the Santa Giustina convent cleared by military accretions, this walkway also expresses the allegory of a lost relationship between town and countryside, between interior and exterior. A second fundamental vehicular axis organizes traffic draining it from the contour of the “Prato della Valle” to a “urban” path flanked by two residential wings confirming an already existing sign that still head to the gap in the walls where a new square ends (whose type already corresponds to similar situations in the city). The market and the bus parking for the pilgrims of the Holy are located on the back. This building is crossed by the new pedestrian path coming from the walls. With a external helical staircase it is possible to reach the viewpoint on the topmost level of the building: from here it’s possible to understand the logic of this architecture. Finally, the “Prato della Valle”: this space is designed covered in turf and, in absolute abstraction, further highlights the pale stone architecture, water and trees left from “Memmo”. That architecture stands for the mental geometric harmony compared to a space with asymmetric and “casual” borders: it is the core of the proposal.

Palazzo Venier dai Leoni is the most conspicuous architectural “unfinished” building on the Grand Canal, a condition of building dynamism, of impending mutation of the Venetian urban scene which can acquire a highly positive sense in the current perception of Venice. The museum building, with simple practicality readapted from a private residence to public functions, hides behind the curtain of the incomplete building without declaring its new functions. These are re-proposed here as an insertion of the museum into the city, into the urban fabric from which it is no longer separated, to be instead defined as a highly singular space, which must start from its own suggestion to its new penetrability and as a show of the museum for the city. Following the example of the most recent museum experience, in fact, the presence of the public is the moment of strongest recognition of the museum-city relationship. At the same time, the city, with its light, must be perceived, in a discreet and oriented way, by the visitor to the museum. The project takes into account this need as well as an expansion of the collections, a constant opening throughout the year. Of didactic functions and temporary exhibition.