Albania.
A former monument becomes a place to learn, an archive opens to the city, and floating solar gives a reservoir another role. Alongside them, the Vjosa asks what should remain wild.
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A monument finds a public life.
A closed monument to a former regime became climbable public topography and a distributed learning centre without erasing its difficult history.
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A river, protected as a system.
Albania’s Vjosa park brings a free-flowing river and four tributaries into one protected area. The unit of design is the living connection.
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Give a hydropower reservoir a second source of energy.
Four floating solar rings at Albania’s Banja reservoir bring solar generation onto a site already built around electricity.
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Open an archive without erasing its home.
In Shkodër, carefully inserted exhibition structures bring a photographic archive into a historic building and out towards the street.
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Give the centre back to people on foot.
Tirana’s central square pairs an open pedestrian surface with a planted perimeter, turning a traffic-dominated centre into a place for everyday use.
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