Kovin Military Airport ⋆

HIDRO PLANE: firefighting academy

Author: Dezire Tilinger

Kovin Military Airport – a stroke in the fields – offers the potential to become a place, the centre of the Vojvodina landscape. How does one design in accordance with the void representing the flat horizon and the infinite sea of sunflowers? Does one skip the design of architecture placed in landscape and approach the method of landscape design as a means of placing algorithms into which architecture is inserted? Architecture is landscape. Landscape offers an experimental platform for separation from known typologies and attempts to blur the boundary between the object / complex and its environment. In accordance with the topography, a spatial concept is formed, which affirms it and becomes part of the whole. The project of the fire academy was designed as an architecture of peace, with the possibility of quick conversion into the sphere of a defensive mechanism, the architecture of war – because “the best habitat is the one that survives despite all conditions.”