[re] Appropriation Of The Property Limit

This article talks about an exhibition created by the same author on the occasion of Tirana Architecture Week in Tirana explaining the main idea. The idea of this exhibition was to [re] appropriate the property limit in Tirana which is one of the problems that we encounter in almost every road or private property in our city and especially in the suburbs. This was an exhibition of photos taken by students or staff during activities like walking the city. The exhibition was inspired by the Agueda Case in Portugal or even Kotorr (Montenegro) where sometimes simple elements of everyday life can be transformed into show-stoppers, art installations which create surrealistic atmospheres and attract people’s attention. Prior to the day of the exhibition, the students worked hard on the construction of the umbrella’s supporting grid and the carton boxes exhibition wall. The exhibition is a guide through the typology of walls used in our city as traditional enclosure walls during the first half of the 20th century, the 1945-1990 period, and finally the typology of walls from the 90’s until the present day in our country. The exhibition discusses the re-appropriation of the walls that limit the property throughout our city. The achievement of the exhibition was to incite the participants to create a critical opinion in the public masses and to contribute with a qualitative dialogue regarding the recognition and renewal of the qualities of public spaces. The main goal was to stimulate the participants’ imagination on how to definitely change the medieval mentality of using fortresses instead of more functional, aesthetic , and appropriate solutions.