Moeko Yamagata’s project, “Monastero de Torcello,” is a hostel and accommodation unit in Torcello Island, Venice. It is part of a new master plan, which aims to create a place for meditation by making use of its monastic atmosphere.
Moeko Yamagata
University of East London
School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering
View from marshland. © Moeko Yamagata.
Jury
Kevin Carmody
Kent Jackson
Roger Kallman
Ken Mackay
The proposed building is lifted from the ground to protect it from flooding. Building elements are prefabricated with lightweight timber to eliminate damage to the surroundings.
Visitors enter the communal space which opens out and immediately looks out onto the lagoon. The floor finish reflects the lagoon into the building.
If this master plan is successful, it can be used in other parts of Torcello.
Venice. © Moeko Yamagata.
Design process. © Moeko Yamagata.
Model. © Moeko Yamagata.
Construction process. © Moeko Yamagata.
View from communal space looking onto the marshland and the courtyard. The floor finish reflects the lagoon into the building. © Moeko Yamagata.
Moeko Yamagata’s project for her degree was both powerful and silent. The unit she was part of spent the year working on several islands within the lagoon of Venice. Her project ‘Monastero de Torcello’ is a sensitive rapport between place and building as a result of a precise site analysis. The building she designed shows a fine sense of structural and constructional components as generators of architectural form and atmosphere. Moeko has produced a strong and coherent building that speaks in a beautiful way about its use and its place, radiating its presence to the landscape.
Jan Liebe
Moeko Yamagata
University of East London
School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering
