ACRONYM: Hard-Heritage
Principal Investigator: Maria Rita Pais
Other Investigators:
- Donatella Rita Fiorino
- Luís Santiago Baptista
- Giulia Cherchi
- Hugo Nazareth Fernandes
- Rui Nogueira Simões
- Spela Hudnik
- Diana Babalis
- Pieterjan Gienckels
- Alessia Zampini
Partners: City Councils of Lisbon, Oeiras, Almada, Setúbal, Association of the Friends of Portuguese Coast Artillery.
Abstract: Abandoned on the coast as skeletons, bunkers are the last theatrical gesture in the history Western military architecture (Virilio, 1975). Technically obsolete, this military territory has fallen into extinction and is now generally forgotten. We present Plan Barron of Defense of Lisbon and Setúbal, a mid-twentieth-century set of bunkers, recently declassified and with no heritage classification, as a case study to discuss the future of this heritage facing climate crisis. Can oblivious super-resistant war architecture have an opportunity to a new cycle to fight climate emergency? We present Techno-aesthetic (Simondon, 1992) and Milieu (Georges Teyssot, 2021) concepts.
This workshop will gather specialists, students and local stakeholders on a common work to understand, debate and propose architectural solutions for the future of this heritage. The works will happen in one of the Batteries: Bataria da Laje, in Oeiras.