Sandretto San Giacomo Venice: An Off-Grid Island Foundation
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo opened a whole abandoned Venetian island to the public on 7 May 2026 — and ran it without a single connection to the city’s electricity, gas or water grid. The sandretto san giacomo venice project is the only patron-foundation venue in the lagoon that is an island rather than a palazzo, and it is the only one whose mechanical services live entirely inside its own perimeter. That single combination — a whole-island scope and a fully off-grid envelope — is the reason this addition to Venice’s foundation map is not interchangeable with the others, and the reason it changes the comparator set rather than simply extending it. ...