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The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum Exhibition has opened at the Architekturzentrum Wien on the 13 of September 2006. ‘Cast Concrete Insanity – 12,000 German bunkers along the coast’ (this is the new title of the exhibition) has been set up with good care by the curators and its content has been very well recieved by a number of journalists and visitors. There seemed to be a diffused wish between the participants that the research held by the DPA of the Politecnico di Milano shall become a starting point for further discussions on the value of this European ‘forbidden’ heritage…

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‘Cast Concrete Insanity – 12,000 German bunkers along the coast’ is the title of The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum exhibition second appearance, that will take place at the Architekturzentrum Wien from September 14 till October 09, 2006. The Opening will be on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 07:00 pm.

[ Fyrvej, Hirtshals. Denmark. Photograph: © Guido Guidi - 2005]

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cinema istria is an old cinema of 1.100 seats distributed on two levels, with a volume of 6.600 cubic meters and an overall floor area of 1.300 square meters. its bearing structure constitutes in a series of reinforced concrete arches supporting the curved roof. a 350 sqm adjecting mezzanine features a series of longitudinal beams bounded to the curved wall opposite of the screen and supported by columns. the cinema, built in the 40’s according to the design of arch. mario cavallè and currently occupied by a car dealer, will be refurbished by studiometrico with great care for its original forms and will be used by its future inhabitants as a working place and a recreational space.

[source: Mario Cavallé, Tecnica delle costruzioni di Cinema e Teatri, Görlich Editore, Milano 1958]

a small apartment by a big magnolia designed
by studiometrico for a milanese girlfriend is
ready to be colonized by furnitures… and friends

The DPA of the Politecnico of Milan (I), with the GRAI of the
Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles (F) and the Raymond Lemaire
International Centre for Conservation in Leuven (B), has
managed a research within the EU programme Culture 2004
concerning the Atlantic Wall, the defence line built by German
occupation forces between 1939 and 1944 along the coasts of
France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway.
More than 12.000 concrete bunkers were built, an impressive
number for cost and labour involved.
The project underlines the architectural and cultural value of an
unique transnational heritage, preserving a shared memory on
the European soil.
An heritage to be safeguarded by the construction of the
Atlantic Wall Linear Museum.

The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum exhibition, designed by
studiometrico has been held at the Politecnico di Milano
between 27 october and 11 november 2005.

1 - walkable map

2 - archive drawers

3 - floating tablets

4 - along the wall

photographs by Sabrina Ragucci

studiometrico has been among the partecipants
in the international competition living in milan/2.
our project intention was to focus on the organization
of a suburban area in milan, to develop a simple, clear,
low cost apartment building, and to describe a variety
of places (from private to public) for many activities
for future residents and neighbours. obviously not very
inspired by our proposal, the jury has then assigned five
prices to other five entries that you can check out, and
maybe comment on the very useful europaconcorsi site

studiometrico is currently developing the project of a house with many secrets..

the clothing shop designed by studiometrico
opened in bologna, italy