The Architectural Transfiguration of History / Architektoniczna transfiguracja historii

In this essay, historical events relating to World War I in the border territory between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire become a pretext to envisage the functional programme underlying a museographic display. A former Austro-Hungarian fort, located on a rocky outcrop 1,000 metres above sea level, is transformed into a poetic reaction machine. The fort’s underground interiors become a theatre of rhetorical and compositional artifi ces, through which the architectural transfi guration of history lets the population reach an emotional understanding of past events and in so doing builds the identity of the place.