Remediation shapes : Adriatica Malthouse, scenarios despite the neglect.

The research centers on the industrial areas’ issue. The pretext is of a more local nature, Porto Marghera’s Venetian industrial district re-composition: a local start for a wider reflection, globally speaking, at least in terms of brownfields and Industrial heritage regeneration. It is particularly important if referred to in connection with its environmental jeopardizing context: the land shaped as a result of remediation. By changing perspective, however, what can be taken into consideration is that the remediation may also become a place where to recreate interests through a morphological design, that is not only a simple result of chemical-physical operations or security procedures, but the first step of a strategy able to generate virtuous alternatives. Therefore, one of the aims pursued by this research is codifying possible government strategies related to the remediation process, to bring back an architectural direction. A new awareness is reported: no sustainable regeneration will be possible unless remediation is taken on right inside the design project and its possible forms. The project presents a renewal strategy of the district starting from single areas to arrive only later on at a general re-composition of all Porto Marghera. Among these, The Adriatica Malthouse area was chosen for its suitable features making it an ideal starting point of the regeneration process.