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TRANSFORMATION The T-shaped main hotel building, transformed from its former function as a hospital © JW Marriott Venice


tion concept was “shared and agreed with” the City of Venice’s Cultural Heritage Office, which was essential since the island is designated as a protected historical area. The collaborative relationship achieved with the City was sustained through all the subse- quent design and construction phases. A team of restoration specialists supported the architects in ensuring the project preserved the buildings’ historic value including the distinctive ‘patina’ of the walls.


The client is now able to offer guests five different varieties of accommodation, exploiting the styles of the various building types – in addition to the main hotel there are a variety of villas, grouped into four types. Particularly successful are the gener-


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ously high and bright ‘La Maisonette’ (a brick building formerly for agricultural storage) and the single-storey ‘La Residenza’ (formerly hospital offices), which both have private gardens and pools. All of the old buildings remain on the


site, and the architects took a painstaking approach to ensuring the best methods were found to treat and recover the patina of the historic walls. “We restored the facades of each of them and then build new structures within the original frames without touching the walls, which allowed an authentic restoration.” Colombo comments: “The box in the box concept allowed us combine restoration and new construction to respect the existing


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