Museum
Building Fabric Solana, Tuzla
What:
One semester long project focuses on the research,
documentation and design of an architectural proposal for museum building of
Fabric “Solana” in Tuzla.
About industrial heritage: The Industrial Revolution
profoundly modified landscapes and life styles. Guardians of the past, industrial
sites testify to the ordeals and exploits of those who worked in them.
Industrial sites are important milestones in the history of humanity, they
testify to the the creative genius of humankind.
The last 30 years have brought increased
awareness of the importance of industrial history in understanding heritage.
Rapid technological advances lead to the
neglection of most industrial sites. To save them from abandonment or
destruction, a number of mines, factories, forges and manufactures have been
inscribed on the World Heritage List.
In order to preserve the existing industrial
heritage, the neglected industrial sites were transformed into new cultural and
environmental uses that contributed to the enhancement of land use and quality
of life. This transformation includes three different strategies that can be
used to reclaim neglected industrial sites:[1]
- The Historical and cultural character;
- The Environmental character; and
- The Socioeconomic character.
Out of the 690 inscribed sites there are 28 sites that are considered "Industrial Heritage."3 Industrial Heritage embraces 5.3% of all cultural sites and 4% of all World Heritage Sites.[2]
Site:
The site is primarily an industrial area of fabric of
salt, located in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Why:
Architects in the role of saviour!
The disaster ruins everything, All the while leaving everything intact. It does not touch anyone in particular: “I” am not threatened by it, but spared, left aside. It is this way that I am threatened; it is in this way that the disaster threatens in me what is no reaching the disaster. Out of reach is he whom it threatens, whether from afar or close up, it is impossible to say: the infinitude of the treat has in same way broken every limit.
The disaster ruins everything, All the while leaving everything intact. It does not touch anyone in particular: “I” am not threatened by it, but spared, left aside. It is this way that I am threatened; it is in this way that the disaster threatens in me what is no reaching the disaster. Out of reach is he whom it threatens, whether from afar or close up, it is impossible to say: the infinitude of the treat has in same way broken every limit.
-Maurice
Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster
History: The
production of salt is the firstborn in the industrial production in Tuzla, and
is also one of the oldest in all Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The first saltworks in Tuzla were
established during the Austro-Hungarian management of Bosnia and Herzegovina in
the long past year 1885 in the town of Simin Han; after that, saltworks was
established in Kreka, placed exactly in the location where the production is
even now. These data serve as witness to the long lasting tradition of salt
production on the locality, which is documented and stored in the Museum of
saltworks dated since 1975.
The transition to the vacuum - based
production of salt was made by the building of existing production plants of
the Saltworks Tuzla in the year 1970, with a projected capacity of 185,000 tons
yearly, with the then most advanced production technology - according to the
technology of the Swiss firm ESCHER-WYSS. The old production technology-
boiling the water away in shallow casseroles was abandoned; the new technology
enabled us to produce more, and what is very important, under far better
conditions for workers.
Solana Tuzla, Inc. is export-oriented company and due to issues
in the country and the region, it won’t be able to achieve a considerable
increase either in production or sale, without greater support through economic
policy and international exchange. At the same time, there are delivery and price
problems of the basic inputs, especially energy, which has unfavorable
influence on achieving total business results.[3]
PART
ONE Documenting, analyzing and presenting: Students
will work in groups on collection of data necessary for analyses and future development
of project. Data to be collected for all groups are following: Photos with
exact position notified on maps; architectural drawings (site plan, plans,
section, elevation, details and etc); 3D drawings; 3D fly through architectural
video and physical model. Students are supposed to form group by having in mind
of necessary skills needed to participate in particular group. Groups to be
formed are as follows:
1/
group to document outer sheath of the building of industrial heritage and
within entire complex;
2/
group to document inside of museum, historical part;
3/
group to document inside of museum, part with casseroles;
4/
group to document inside of magazine.
Aim
of this part is to form virtual museum!
PART
TWO Proposal Project: Working in groups students are
supposed to propose sustainable design of selected building.
Aim
of this part is to save the museum building and its artefacts.
Mid
Term Presentation: All work should be published on blog
page of particular studio and presented orally by group members.
Final
Presentation: All work should be published on blog
page of particular Studio and presented orally by group members.
Submission
Requirements: Digital & physical constructs
parametric, blog, automation, animation, visualization, analytical, and
low-tech tools drawings, models, diagrams, maps, schedules, catalogs, images
and other propaganda.
[1] LOURES,
Luis; HORTA, Dina; SANTOS, Andreia; PANAGOPOULOS, Thomas: Strategies to reclaim
derelict industrial areas: Wseas transactions on environment and development,
Vol.2, Issue 5, pp.599-604.Algarve , 2006.
[2] Michael
Falser(Austria)Stagiaire 15.8.-15.10.2001 UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Asia-Pacific Region, Minja Yang
[3] Source:
http://www.solanatuzla.com/english/osnovni_ist.html
_ 04/02/2013
