Concrete Mushrooms

clipped from www.inhabitat.com Concrete Mushrooms: Transforming Abandoned Bunkers Into Eco Hostels There are reportedly over 750,000 abandoned concrete bunkers scattered throughout Albania, remnants of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha and his policies of paranoid xenophobia. Now graduate students Gyler Mydyti & Elian Stefa have developed a plan called Concrete Mushrooms that would ‘invert the meaning’ of these structures by turning them into a network of habitable eco-hostels, cafés, gift shops and more. clipped from blog.concrete-mushrooms.com The Project “Concrete Mushrooms” is a project initiated as an idea for research by two Albanian graduate students at Politecnico di Milano, and the purpose was to emphasize the appreciable assets of Albania such as bunkers which are vast in number and across all the rich and beautiful landscape of Albania. clipped from www.cafebabel.co.uk Albania: polit-tourism between coves and concrete beach bunkers clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from blog.concrete-mushrooms.com The Documentary While the documentary is being worked on, please enjoy the trailer! clipped from blog.concrete-mushrooms.com Pictures: