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Sarajevo Military Brownfields. Principles for Adaptive Reuse

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Built Heritage Sustainable Reuse

Part of the book series: Building Pathology and Rehabilitation ((BUILDING,volume 26))

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Abstract

Strategic military bases in Bosnia and Herzegovina sought to provide a defence system for the protection of the society and to transform the commonly viewed as complex and diverse historically, culturally, and socially interlocking territories into an ordered and unified identity. Today, this architectural and political project still witnesses the utopian visions of former military systems and their importance and collective power. However, this endangered heritage indicates the lack of integration into contemporary society due to complex political, social, and cultural misuses. Therefore, this research aims to shed light on the rather unexplored military architecture in the city of Sarajevo and to question the concept of power and protection as a source of revival for a new ideological role of social, cultural, and educational inclusion, where several principles of architectural regeneration are used as a guiding point for post-war reconstruction. Military brownfields are an enormous resource that can be transformed from the negative connotation those facilities have into a potential for architectural and urban regeneration of a war-torn city.

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This article is part of a postdoctoral research grant 2022–23 financed by the Fondazione Fratelli Confalonieri in Milan, Italy, for the project “Valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale dell’architettura militare in Bosnia-Erzegovina”.

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    Amra Salihbegović & Domenico Chizzoniti

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Salihbegović, A., Chizzoniti, D. (2023). Sarajevo Military Brownfields. Principles for Adaptive Reuse. In: Varum, H., Cunha Ferreira, T. (eds) Built Heritage Sustainable Reuse. Building Pathology and Rehabilitation, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26750-5_8

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