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Eco Park Durres is a large public park built on a former landfill that was a serious environmental problem for the city. The design is inspired by a famous local Roman mosaic, “The Beauty of Durres”, which serves as a metaphor for the transformation of a polluted site with negative connotations into a public space for recreation and environmental education. Continue reading CASANOVA + HERNANDEZ
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Shiroka is a fishing village located on the shores of Shkodra Lake, near the border with Montenegro. Its inhabitants lived for centuries from the lake, men fishing with small rowboats and women tending orchards and weaving carpets by hand. The reaction to the end of a communist regime that had deprived citizens of living from traditional “private” activities was widespread mistrust in the public sphere, which led to a period characterized by uncontrolled occupation and privatization of public space. As result, the public space of the waterfront of Shkodra lake was occupied with illegal constructions such as private houses, restaurants, private parking areas, and kiosks. “Albanian Carpet” returns the waterfront to the citizens demolishing the illegal constructions, opening the views over the lake, and creating an alive public space with a domestic character. Continue reading Casanova+Hernandez
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In 2013, the Albanian Ministry of Culture envisioned a plan to improve the national cultural infrastructure, paying special attention to the renovation of existing historical buildings, reusing them with a new cultural program. One of the first projects included in this program is the Marubi National Photomuseum, which is specially important due to its pioneer character. The plan to create the museum has enjoyed an enormous national repercussion because of the historical importance of exhibiting the photographic legacy created during more than one century by three generations of photographers from the Marubi family. But also, because preserving and disseminating Marubi’s work in a historical city as Shkodër acquires a strong symbolic significance that will help to promote the Albanian national identity, specially among new generations. Continue reading Casanova + Hernandez
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The project “Black and White Twins” experimenting with the spatial and visual integration of compact housing solutions that offer affordable apartments in the new exclusive urban development Blaricummermeent, which consists primarily of single family homes and villas.
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The building is based on the sculptural dialogue between two different elements that respond to the two different characters of the context.
At the park side a glazed skin guarantees excellent views from the interior of the dwellings over the green and the church and at the same time It reflects the nature when seen from the park. At the urban side its opaque skin helps the project to establish a dialogue with the post-war buildings In the neighborhood in terms of height, materialization and the rhythm and size of the openings. Continue reading Casanova + Hernandez Architects
