However, it compromises any other use of a large amount of space within the area of the Arsenale, because it is fenced off, unreachable from within the crenellated walls. As soon as one building is seperated, fenced off from the rest, there is a disjunction, an inability to understand the whole, and a fragmentation of something that for several thousand years functioned naturally as a machine. Now it does not function as a city, lacking of activities and life. A question is if it will be only a space for cultural exhibitions or also for cultural productions. Understanding the flow of people in and out of the Arsenale at macro and micro scales.
People enter Venice from a new perspective than historically.
Now come from Mestre along the bridge and into a parking ramp or train station, which is located on the opposite side from the Arsenale. Visitors will move through the city for more than one hour before even reaching the exterior of the Arsenale walls. The Arsenale could became a new door to the central area of Venice. In order to realize the history of this place it is very important to see our role in history, we must develop the functional program and built elements in a way that preserves the respectable age and authority of the Arsenale. This includes leaving the buildings with as much wear exposed as possible.