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== <span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><strong data-start="2216" data-end="2258">Structural Condition (Degrado)</strong></span></span> ==
== <span style="text-decoration: underline;" >'''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" >Architectural Configuration & Frontage Typologies (Tipi di Configurazione Architettonica)</span>'''</span> ==
<p data-start="4767" data-end="4873"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Structural condition codes assess a building’s physical integrity, ranging from no observable degradation to severe instability requiring immediate support.</span></p>
<p data-start="4767" data-end="4873">Venice uses a highly detailed architectural classification system to describe the structural layout, frontage composition, and construction era of its buildings.<br data-start="556" data-end="559">These codes identify whether a structure is single-cell, bi-cellular, tri-cellular, shed-type, modular, or unified—while also indicating how later additions, renovations, or contextual integration affect its architectural character.<br data-start="791" data-end="794">This typology is essential for understanding how historic Venetian buildings were originally organized, how they evolved through centuries of modification, and how they relate to the surrounding urban fabric.</p>


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| style="width: 40.7957%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">not surveyed</span>
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| style="width: 55.2259%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Assente: l’edificio non presenta sintomi di degrado strutturale di particolare rilevanza</span>
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| style="width: 55.2259%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Basso: l’edificio presenta fenomeni di degrado strutturale di una certa entità</span>
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| style="width: 40.7957%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">low: some structural degradation present</span>
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| style="width: 55.2259%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Medio: l’edificio presenta vistosi fenomeni di degrado</span>
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| style="width: 40.7957%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">medium: notable structural degradation requiring close monitoring</span>
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| style="width: 55.2259%; height: 23px;" | <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Elevato: l’edificio presenta vistosi fenomeni deformativi e instabilità che richiedono opere di puntellamento</span>
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Revision as of 11:15, 9 December 2025

How Venice Classifies, Regulates, and Uses Its Buildings

Venice contains 15,485 buildings within its historic center, each shaped by centuries of architectural tradition, planning policies, and contemporary pressures from tourism, depopulation, and heritage protection. Understanding how the city classifies, manages, and uses its buildings is essential for interpreting urban patterns, zoning decisions, and the residential decline documented in recent decades.

This page summarizes the building classification system used by the City of Venice, explains the planning and cadastre (Catasto) frameworks behind it, and presents quantitative insights into building types and uses—supported by building-level data gathered and verified by the Venice Project Center B25 team.

How Venice Classifies Buildings

Venice relies on an integrated system of architectural typology, functional-use categories, and urban-planning classifications. These come from municipal datasets, national cadastre records (Catasto), and the Variante per la Città Antica zoning plan.

Architectural Typology (Tipologia)

Architectural typology describes when and how a building was constructed. Venice’s typology codes classify each building by century and major use group:

Code Italian Description English Meaning

R_PREOTTO

unità edilizie residenziali preottocentesche Residential buildings pre-19th century

R_OTTO

unità edilizie residenziali ottocentesche Residential buildings 19th century

R_NOVE

unità edilizie residenziali novecentesche Residential buildings 20th century

NR_PREOTTO

non-residential pre-19th century Non-residential, pre-19th century

NR_OTTO

non-residential 19th century Non-residential, 19th century

NR_NOVE

non-residential 20th century Non-residential, 20th century

SP_PREOTTO / SP_OTTO / SP_NOVE

special-use buildings Special use (religious, institutional, civic)

ALTRO

other or unclassified Other / not classifiable


Floor Use / Functional Category (Destinazione Piano)

These codes describe the use assigned to floors of a building. They are essential in Venice because zoning and flood-risk rules tightly regulate ground-floor use.

Code Italian Description English Meaning
A spazi per la mobilità meccanizzata terrestre spaces for mechanized land mobility
B spazi per la mobilità ferroviaria railway mobility spaces
D impianti scoperti per pratica sportiva e lo spettacolo sportivo open-air sports and sports-event facilities
E strutture per l’istruzione obbligatoria compulsory education facilities
F attrezzature tecnologiche technological installations
G altre strutture pubbliche e/o per attività collettive – attrezzature militari public/collective facilities – military facilities
H abitazioni ordinarie e/o specialistiche – attrezzature cimiteriali ordinary and/or specialized housing – cemetery facilities
L attività ricettive accommodation/hospitality activities
M strutture culturali private private cultural facilities
N edifici non utilizzati unused buildings
O magazzini e depositi warehouses and storage
XX non definito undefined

Functional Type (Tipo Funzione)

Functional codes describe specific intended uses, frequently for public, cultural, or utility buildings.

Code Italian Description English Meaning
SP3 caserme barracks
SP4 sedi carcerarie prisons/detention facilities
SP7 distribuzione energia elettrica electricity distribution
SP8 distribuzione gas gas distribution
SP9 distribuzione acqua water distribution
SP11 mense cafeterias/mess halls
SP15 istituti di credito banks/credit institutions
SP16 uffici giudiziari judicial offices
SP17 altri uffici aperti al pubblico other public offices
SP18 centri di calcolo data centers
SP21 centri di ricerca research centers
SP22 sedi espositive exhibition halls
SP23 biblioteche libraries
SP24 archivi archives
SP25 centri congressi polivalenti multipurpose conference centers
SP26 teatri theaters
SP27 cinematografi cinemas
SP28 locali per lo spettacolo performance venues
SP29 sala da ritrovo e da gioco meeting & gaming halls
SP30 strutture religiose religious facilities
SP31 ospedali, cliniche hospitals/clinics
SP32 ospedali diurni day hospitals
SP33 poliambulatori outpatient clinics
AV scuola materna preschool/kindergarten
BV scuola elementare elementary school
C scuola media middle school
D scuola secondaria high school
E università university
IS impianti coperti e scoperti per la pratica sportiva indoor/outdoor sports facilities
MA1 cantieristica minore small-scale shipyards
MA2 cantieristica maggiore large shipyards
MA3 artigianato, industria di produzione di beni vari craft/industry for goods production
MA4 artigianato di servizio service-oriented craft industries
MA5 rimessaggio e noleggio piccole barche storage & rental of small boats
GI giardini aperti al pubblico public gardens
FA attrezzature ferroviarie railway equipment
AU autorimesse garages
IT impianti tecnologici technological plants
AM attrezzature militari military facilities
NU edifici non utilizzati unused buildings
0 non definito undefined

Architectural Configuration & Frontage Typologies (Tipi di Configurazione Architettonica)

Venice uses a highly detailed architectural classification system to describe the structural layout, frontage composition, and construction era of its buildings.
These codes identify whether a structure is single-cell, bi-cellular, tri-cellular, shed-type, modular, or unified—while also indicating how later additions, renovations, or contextual integration affect its architectural character.
This typology is essential for understanding how historic Venetian buildings were originally organized, how they evolved through centuries of modification, and how they relate to the surrounding urban fabric.

Code Italian Description English Meaning
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