Michel Song

Venissodus

By 2100, Venice has become a "bathtub"—a gated enclave of salt-rotted ruins preserved in a state of artificial stasis. Driven by the existential urgency of the climate crisis, Venissodus (Venice, Nissology, Exodus) rejects sentimental preservation in favor of radical vertical resettlement. The project proposes an indifferent megastructural grid established at a datum that clears the city’s highest historical peaks, transforming the lagoon into a site of archaeological speculation and collective refuge.

Throughout his time at the Rhode Island School of Design, Michel has been deeply engaged with radical architectural history and the frontiers of sustainable material research. His work is fueled by the belief that addressing the existential threats of our century requires more than timid improvements; it demands progressive, multidisciplinary leaps that merge architectural imagination with the rigors of engineering, science, and art.

These biocomposites explores the structural and aesthetic potential of agricultural and invasive plant fibers. Utilizing a fibers material like hemp and Phragmites.

This sculptural lighting fixture explores a form-finding process where the material and its mold are inextricably linked. The lamp shade is crafted from a hemp and pine-rosin biocomposite, melted and poured over a hand-sculpted clay mold—which turns into the base.