"The Body, The Vine and The Lagoon" by Sabina Blasiotti 
  

The project is a proposal to introduce a Composting facility and Biodynamic Winery in the abandoned Island of Poveglia in the Venetian Lagoon. Poised between terroir, phenomenological and Gothic Architecture, the design is raising from the ground, where it will return in the fullness of time.
Poveglia is also called the Island of Death. Ultimately, the course wants to be a representation of the transmutation of Venice, against it’s suppositional impending death.
The winery is housed inside a Cathedral, performing both practical and spiritual functions, hosting the ritual of funeral ceremony. The Cathedral construction strategy follows the notion of burial and transformation, suggesting a continuous cycle where materials that have gone through anaerobic decomposition are reused for aerobic construction and vice versa.