Albania’s communist bunkerisation programme produced an extensive militarised landscape, yet its institutional underground structures remain insufficiently theorised within adaptive reuse and difficult heritage studies. This paper examines Bunk’Art 1 and Bunk’Art 2 in Tirana as a dual system of memory. Through case-study analysis, in-situ observation, photogrammetric documentation, and international comparison, it argues that their value lies in their complementarity: together, they reveal the spatial duality of totalitarian rule, between regime survival and societal control. The study proposes cultural monument designation, legislative refinement and a phased national inventory as policy tools for conservation.
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0001-9836-0105
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania - ORCID: 0000-0002-3815-0712
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
Titolo del capitolo
From state secrecy to public legibility: adaptive reuse of the Bunk’Art pair and the Gjirokastër Cold War Tunnel
Autori
Vjola Ilia, Florian Nepravishta, Sokol Allaraj
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.80
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
Sottotitolo del libro
14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November
Curatori
Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1113-0
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-1112-3
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ReUso