Aiming to strategically understand that the removal, accurate archiving and transportation of a variety of priceless artifacts and relics in the city could be impossible in the event of a flooding, constructing an archive that could exist pre and post flood summon a vital function to the gasometers. If these dual conditions were to exist, they would place themselves on polarizing ends of a time line. The Venetian Archive would need to withstand time and weather, providing protection to it's collections. Cautiously constructing architectural ligaments that bandage these conditions and events fastening to the existing structure, the archive supports a series of capsules accessed by a ramp. The ramp is ascended in current day use, and descended

in the future to be accessed by boat. The curated concern for these conditions to prevail,  grant the beginning of preparation for detrimental events without indigenous artifact displacement. Because this happens in modern day, the archive serves as a cultural institution to the city aimed at local curatorial duty.

This precise programming translates to the description of the past through the architecture of the internal capsules. Contextual materials such as Venetian plaster, coat floating capsules that are offset from the perimeter of the gasometer. The surrounding ramps are paced with reused bricks from old structures in the region. Light fabrics at the top of the archive serve as protective screens for the harmonizing and cultivation of these filters.