I thought I'd share something I found while perusing this morning. This is a project entitled "bunker 599" by two Dutch firms: Atelier de Lyon and Rietveld Landscape. I'll let you read more about the project specifics on your own, but I couldn't help but think back to our third year competition entry when looking at this. This idea of place re-contextualized as well as the duality of vulnerability and strength of materiality inherent in the tectonics are both themes I find particularly provoking in this piece as well as our own project. The fact that a former site of impenetrable fortitude and isolation will now become a space for public gathering and introspection is really invigorating.
Here's the link: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11873/rietveld-landscape-atelier-de-lyon-bunker-599.html
Hope you enjoy,
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Thats a really nice project. The world is full of relics of an earlier purpose and time, waiting to re-imagined. Kyle and I are hoping to get into this Spring semester. We're anticipating some of the upcoming suburban remains. If all goes as planned. We'll be spending the semester imagining a walmart has closed its doors and proposing what to do with all of the empty buildings.
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