International Architecture & Design Awards 2026Dwelling In Time
Yicheng Ren
Renovation, Restoration & Adaptive Reuse
Dwelling In Time — IADA 2026 award
Dwelling In Time received Gold Winner recognition at the International Architecture & Design Awards 2026 in Renovation, Restoration & Adaptive Reuse. Project status, design team and credits are listed alongside the presentation.
About the project
In the quiet countryside of Campocroce, where the rhythms of agriculture once harmonized with Venetian retreat, Villa Meneghetti stands not as a monument but as a memory in suspension. "Dwelling in Time" reframes this fragmented landscape not through erasure or preservation, but through grafting - a careful stitching of architecture, time, and terrain into a new spatial and seasonal narrative.
At its core is a promenade - a connective thread that moves through, between, and around the existing buildings. Neither axial nor ornamental, it is choreographic: a path of rhythm and lightness composed of glazed corridors, bronze thresholds, and minimalist white stone facades. This quiet infrastructure links wine shop, tasting room, restaurant, and boutique hotel into a continuous yet varied procession.
The villa's facades are treated not as blank surfaces but as textured relics - framed and protected by new colonnades and transparent enclosures. These additions do not overwrite the past; they hold it in tension, creating a living archive where space carries the imprint of weather and time.
This is not a singular gesture but a system of restrained, reciprocal acts - between inside and outside, past and present, guest and host. The logic follows path - nodeframe - sequence, offering architecture not as spectacle, but as experience. Through this grafted rhythm of old and new, the villa becomes an inhabited landscape, where time is not restored - but spatialized.
