AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
STUDIO 2B
COMPUTATIONAL BUILDING DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION
АЗОТАРА CURATING THE NARRATIVE OF REVIVAL IN VITKOVIĆI
N O 2 . PHOTOBOOK
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DAY 2 Places visited this day Private/inaccessible areas
Vitkovici
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direction, from A-B
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Gorazde
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I. INFORMATION
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DAY 2
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АЗОТАРА BUILDING NO.2
АЗОТАРА BUILDING NO.3
АЗОТАРА BUILDING NO.4
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04.03.2020 coffee - allowance to enter the remaining factories, owned by Enisa Bekto. - guided by Erwin Bekto - buildings 2, 3, 4 scanned - time allowed: until 15.00 - scanned site + photographed the buildings for 6h - interview with Huso Bjedic (man, 86, previous worker at Азотара - video recording his story about the factories - original documents received by Huso Bjedic concerning the old Азотара, magazines, books, siteplan, etc. - restaurant meeting with Opština (the authorities) - data /allowance
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АЗОТАРА (BUILDING NO.2) PHOTO BOOK
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Азотара Vitkovici, Bosnia & Herzogovina
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04.03.2020 (right) building no. 2, emptied, and destroyed, bare in the industrial landscape. Ground floor used as storage space, whilst the upper floors are empty, leaving only the concrete pillars to be seen. The building is built up by a 3x3 grid system in the main production space, whilst leaving the circulation tower with an exterior grid system, divided into 6 floors; upper floors (4th, 5th, 6th) with a height of 3 metres, while 2nd and 3rd floor is 4metres. The circulation tower is divided in two, one part being where the staircase continues up to the top floor, while the other half is an open space: production/larger containers sit. From the circulation tower there is a view down to the production of the chemicals. (left) an image of the remains of container structure, this concrete skeleton indicates its purpose in the production. The cutouts in the plateau indicate the specific containers specially made to fit in this slab. The upper stairs indicate a look down? an interest element to question and investigate.
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04.03.2020 the building placed in the back is the original interest. On the left to this building, placed in the front is an active storage space, used to store metalparts.
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04.03.2020 inside the circulation tower, the larger open space with a look down to the lower floors, where containers had their place.
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04.03.2020 inside the circulation tower, having a look out to building no. 3 and no. 4.
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toxic landscape
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04.03.2020 a view out to what might seem as a mild nutturing landscape. These hills are not natural, they are artificially made of the poisionous chemicals once produced at the factory, the leftover matter from the production of ammonium nitrate / the waste was trashed to the other side of the river, left to be dissolved in the landscape. Now, sheep graze and farmers use the soil to feed and sell to the local area.
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04.03.2020 (left) a view to the landfill, the chimney actively used to burn materials such as plastics, textiles, general waste people collect. (right) an accessible roof with connecting stairs to the upper floor.
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04.03.2020 (left) inside the circulation tower, being scanned from several angles to captures its closures, openings, its height and width. The bricks, holes and smaller bits left on each floor challenging the scans of the spaces. (right) the open space reaches its top on 6th floor, where bricks fall from the top, piece by piece. (danger zone)
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04.03.2020 reconstructed image of the central space in the building, where the main production was done. The tall space indicating the significance of opening up this space entirely to production/ mechanics/machines etc.
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04.03.2020 (left) detail from wall condition, brickwall, cemented, isolated only with the concrete material.
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04.03.2020 this fragment of the remaining building leaves a naked skeleton interesting in the continuation of the narrative of this building. Its fragmented remains indicate purpose and active use in circulation. Where do the staris lead to? what can be seen from this plateau? This building was inaccessible, stairs on ground floor torn down. Viewed from inside building no. 2.
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04.03.2020 the circulation in this building is entirely exterior. On the ground floor level stabilizing concrete racks still sit, built to support cylindrical containers (containing ammoinia nitrate). The distinct smell of these chemicals are still active on site.
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04.03.2020 (left, upper right corner) a detailed zoom on a wall condition; shows mulitple layers of decay visibly grown into the wall. (right) a narrow plateau that overlooks the central production space with an opnening that faces the production/the work. This plateau was occupied by supervisors and other managing employees.
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04.03.2020 (left) view into the central mechanic space from 1st floor, showing building decay and the rigid grid structure of the building.
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04.03.2020 (left, upper right corner) cylinder racks supporting heavy containers. (right) from outside facing the fragmented concrete structure.
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building no.3 is actively used by owner of the area, this building is a storage space for steel elements. The building has no sheltering roof, its roof being a bare metal/concrete structure.
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04.03.2020 the empty large space is framed by a solid structure that strengthens its structure. On the exterior, the building falls heavy into the ground. Compared to building no. 2, this building has a heavy character on exterior, while inside the building the lightweight structure erases the heavyness of the exterior and lets in daylight through the roof-structure.
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Азотара Vitkovici, Bosnia & Herzogovina
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04.03.2020 building no. 4, facing north, has been restored on ground level (private) now being used to produce (unknown) chemicals while the upper floors are inaccessible - the upper floors cannot be accessed due to the fragile state the entire building is in. (ready to be demolished?)
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the documentation of this building was therefore only possible from exterior.
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04.03.2020 outside building no. 4, barrels containing unknown liquids, seemingly untouched and left as waste outside the building. While facing Drina and the artificial hills in the back.
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A personal story told by Huso Bjedic, an old employee at Азотара (from 1954 - 1989). I was invited to his house in Gorazde, next to the mosque.
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HUSO BJEDIC'S HOME PHOTO BOOK
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Gorazde, Bosnia & Herzogovina
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04.03.2020 on this day I arranged an interview with Huso Bjedic, 87, who previously worked at Азотара, responsible for the chemical procedure. His story was recorded (1h). From him I received a collection of documents on the Azot factories; newspapers, articles, photographs, regulatory plans, diagrams etc. This one book (Урбаниотички Завод Нрбих, торажде, тенерални Урбанистички План) was found and collected by Huso Bjedic on the street during the civil war in 1992, not knowing the important informations it contained. In this book, photographs, description on Vitkovici and the Azot area, regulatory plans dated back to 1955 and the original siteplan 1:1000 of Vitkovici from 1966. Huso told me about his personal experience at the Azot factories, the communities and the socializing. He explained the transportation to and from work every day, how Azot became the most important industrial area in Yugoslavia, people moved from around the country to work at Azot. With a totalt of 2,500 employees the industry grew to the end of 1970s. After Tito's death in 1980, the industry experienced a downfall, a decrease in the wage growth. Salaries were reduced to the minimum and this resulted in a strike in 1989. Later that year the factories slowly started to shut down.
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04.03.2020 Huso Bjedic, (87)
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04.03.2020 in 1989 the employees were all given a pin, celebrating the 35 year anniversary of Azot, later that year the employees went on a strike. The book underneath containing detailed information on the different parts in the production of chemicals. Which machines were being used and how these machines work, mechanically. Detailed information on the chemicals is also decribed in the book.
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Below is a photograph of Huso Bjedic's wife. She spends her day sitting on the couch unable to physically move around too much. While Huso tells his story she would interupt, comment and complain on his decriptive story telling. "Pređi na stvar!" Huso is detailed in his storytelling, explaining according to what he remembers, meticulously. Meanwhile, his wife is offering some orange juice. duration: 2,5 hours.
04.03.2020 his wife, (83)
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NPHOTOBOOK O2.