A bunker becomes a place to make things together
An empty bunker is easy to preserve as a curiosity. Tek Bunkeri asks what it would take for a site like this to be useful to its neighbours. The project used participatory workshops and adapted outdoor space to make the site somewhere people could gather and work together.
AL AlbaniaIn practice. Participatory workshops turn disused military spaces into community infrastructure.
What to keep in view
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What survives a change of use
The New European Bauhaus project record documents activity at the site. The arrangement of chairs and shared work areas is part of the intervention: the space can accommodate a workshop without a permanent institutional fit-out.
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