Rise again from ashes

Type: Reuse, Public Space, Cultural

Client: Municipality of Korça, Destil

Korçë. Albania 2021

Architecture: Tea Mersuli, Barbora Gunišová

Former Cooling Tower at the entrance of the city of Korça has been abandoned for more than thirty years. Still, the structure is an icon of the skyline of the city and a symbol of the industrial heritage of the area.

In this collaboration, the proposal consists in minimal touch of the structure, by radical perservation of the object and a simple gesture of readapting the ground of the cooling tower into an amphitheatre, adding therefore a new public cultural space to the traditional cultural public life of Korça.