The Creature of Venice Part 1 Project 2019 Edward Yan Newcastle University | UK As the challenge of climate change becomes increasingly more complex, entangled, and urgent, the lines between architecture, industrial design, and landscape architecture must be blurred. The architect of the future must actively encourage the blurring of these predefined boundaries. Good design will encompass and transcend many disciplines, and aims to resolve multiple considerations. This ecologically minded architecture is one who proposes complex integrated design solutions across scales. The Creature of Venice is a speculative project that aims to use the Architectural Biennale in Venice to physically and contextually respond to climate change. The project integrates a masterplan with a building, and intervenes through scales of its space, place, and landscape. Its goal is to challenge the hearts and minds of the architects, bringing about a social change in the profession, and used to create a physical product that has a tangible impact on the landscape. Together, a physical and social change will have a greater impact in resolving Venice’s coastal erosion. The Creature of Venice has sought to mediate cycles of change between its users and environments, at the scales of space, place, and landscape. But this too will change, and a new cycle will begin again. Once a year, the Creature of Venice sheds its skin. Eventually, the skin grows to become a creature of its own. Tutor(s) Rachel Armstrong