Projection

Buildings surround our everyday lives and form our daily interactions. Architects design buildings with this in mind. Yet buildings do not come with instructions, and inhabitants all come with their own ideas of “home”. Rarely does anyone outside of the profession of architecture hear all the intentions and reasons that go into a building or a neighbourhood’s design.

This film is a video interview, which brings together some of the architects of Trakiya, a 40 year old panelka neighbourhood that has housed over 80,000 people since its creation. Holistically designed, composed of avant-garde social theories and aesthetic aspirations, the construction was never fully executed (as was the case with most Bulgarian panelki neighbourhoods). Over time the inhabitants significantly altered the architecture. After all this time and all these adaptation we gathered most of the team who designed Trakiya around a table and with their original sketches in hand we asked them to discuss the designs that shaped the everyday living of so many people.

What were their intentions? What did they experiment with? What worked in their eyes, what didn’t?

The film is produced by ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK and is conceived and directed by Lina Krivoshieva and Megan Lueneburg. It features the following architects who took part in the design of the neighbourhood of Trakiya: Vesselin Donchev, Vili Raeva, Vesselina Pandzharova, Antoaneta Topalova, Alexander Petrovich and Stoiko Maronov.

Entrance: free