History
Abandoned on the coast as skeletons, bunkers are the last theatrical gesture in the history
of Western military architecture (Virilio, 1975). Technically obsolete, this military territory has fallen
into extinction and is now generally forgotten. We present the Plan Barron of Defense of Lisbon and
Setubal case study, a mid-twentieth-century set of bunkers, recently declassified, as a case study to
discuss the future of this heritage facing the climate crisis. Can oblivious historical war heritage be
an opportunity to fight climate emergencies? We present four theoretical concepts to fundament this
environmental positioning: (i) Heritage Management and Climate Governance, (ii) Techno-aesthetic
(Simondon, 1992): panopticon territorial cluster; (iii) Military: camouflage as design, and (iv) Civil:
inheritance as future potential. The results allow us to look at military architecture in the form of a
bunker, as a set of territorial, architectonic, cultural, and social interests. We demonstrate that the
counterpoint of its invisibility is a singular naturalized “milieu”, a place where the memory of war
can be transformed as a buffer zone that combines characteristics of climate and coastal resilience
with cultural and social interest as a “common good”Architect intern at Lisbon Design Studio, Portugal
Source: https://www.academia.edu/69461356/Understanding_Bunker_Architecture_Heritage_as_a_Climate_Action_Tool_Plan_Barron_in_Lisbon_as_a_Milieu_and_as_Common_Good_When_Dealing_with_the_Rise_of_the_Water_Levels
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