Bunker R19

  • Študijsko leto
    2018/19

Mentors: izr. prof. dr. Alenka Fikfak, asist. Janez P. Grom, teh. sod. Urška Kalčič, teh. sod. Aleš Švigelj, teh. sod. Marko Lazič

Students: Nina Povše, Sara Dauti, Taja Fišter, Anže Veber, Žan Stojanovič, Haris Sulejmanagic, Sanja Djurdjević, Urška Jernej, Nikola Pokupec, Klemen Banovec, Marjan Gracar, Filip Ružić, Žiga Mljač, Lidija Pranjić, Karin Pavlovec, Flutra Kelmendi, Nevzeta Toromantič, Ardita Agaj, Dora Gabrijel, Nuša Jerič, Iva Šegavac, Mara Vogrinec, Kaja Žnidaršič, Tomaž Mlinarič, Sara Tratar, Nataša Ržek, Janvit Sabadin, Uroš Ulčar, Maša Blažič, Jana Benedik, Urban Vamberger, Clona Rosell, Mena, Sara Sanchez, Patricia Galán, Javier de Juan Ortega, Lucrezia Ortiz, Arantxa Jordán Gaspar, José Luis Guillén Ferrer, Krystel Morán Espinoza, Dylan Gubbels

Guest lecturers: asist. dr. Petra Štukovnik, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, UL Dr. Gerold Schnedl, LAFARGE, Head of customer solution centre Mannersdorf

The purpose of the workshop was to rediscover a forgotten part of the Slovenian history that had a major impact on the development of the space as a side-effect of international politics. The establishment of the Rapallo border in 1920 procured the political basis for the enormous built up of vast fortification systems on the Italian and the Yugoslavian side of the border. As the Italians built the Vallo Alpino system the Yugoslavs built the Rupnik defence line. After the capitulation of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, part of the Rupnik bunkers in the Žiri municipality came under the Italian jurisdiction. The Italian military demolished most of them. In combination with the post-war denunciation of general Leon Rupnik and the defence line bearing his name, the defence system went totally forgotten. The goal of the workshop was to rediscover one of the demolished bunkers and through investigation and analytical work define its shape and materiality. On the basis of these data, the bunker was reconstructed faithfully.

Partners and co-organizers: Žiri municipality, Lafarge cementi

Location:  Žiri – Slovenija

Year: 2015

Type of workshop:  architectural