Depicting and transfiguring informal constructions in Albania-abstract

This visual research on the informal constructions built in Albania after the fall of the Socialist regime was born as a response to a landscape problem afflicting this territory. When the 1990s migratory wave found coastal towns unprepared, the growth of housing needs created a new type of land organization based on a parasitic exploitation along the coast road, where concrete frame buildings popped up. The beauty of the Albanian landscape seems to be equivocally corrupted by the rigid reinforced concrete skeletons that measure territorial distances and scatter the view, brutally framed by structures or scratched by hovering concrete landings, in fragments. There is a need to become aware of this reality that can not be demolished or ignored. Architecture needs to reflect and find out new visions to innovate their relationship withcontext/environment/landscape and ways of occupying/using/reusing and even completing the unfinished construction works.