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A massive project that envisages about 90 thousand square meters of construction will transform the Vlora coast into a cocktail of colorful towers. The project was designed by architectural studio Oppenheim on behalf of the company Feniks Konstruksion.
Located at a crossroads between the old town, the Soda Forest and a newly built marina, the project is called Vlore Beach Urban Development. It covers an area of 20,465 square meters and adds 89,320 square meters of new construction.
According to Oppenheim, at the heart of the project is a central pedestrian promenade that stretches from the boulevard to the beach, conceived as a public pillar that connects architecture to the landscape and daily life to the city's larger rhythms.
According to the studio, this project is inspired by Albanian villages, with spontaneous, irregular structures formed by social proximity, reimagined here through a series of nuclei, or small-scale urban blocks.
These colorful buildings are organized around common spaces and stitched together by a corridor lined with cafes, squares, shops, and shaded public areas.
But intensive land use and the high density of concrete transform the neighborhood into a ghetto similar to Brazilian favelas, albeit with more colors and more concrete.
The ground floors are designed to overlap commercial and residential activity. Three towers, set within the block structure, rise above the otherwise modest scale of the neighborhood. Their positioning preserves view corridors and open space, while their facades follow the same design language to keep the architectural conversation consistent.
Oppeneheim says that Vlore Beach Urban Development treats the site as a convergence point, a place where natural and built environments, inherited and emerging, are layered.
It is not yet known whether the project has received a construction permit. But it was built on behalf of the company Feniks Konstruksion, which is owned by Ilir and Jaho Shyti./ Kapital.al
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