Military / Nuclear Sites

Military and nuclear sites are landscapes shaped by defense, secrecy, and catastrophic risk—training grounds, bases, weapons storage, test fields, or contaminated zones. These sites embody the extremes of human power: vast territories withdrawn from public life, engineered for control and destruction. Many have left toxic legacies, radioactive scars, or derelict ruins that will outlast generations. They are landscapes of violence, but also of eerie stillness and new ecological beginnings. Military and nuclear sites may pose questions of remediation, memory, and reuse. They confront us with the ethical weight of designing in places marked by secrecy, trauma, and nonhuman timescales of contamination.

/ Urška Škerl

The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the U.S. Nuclear Highway by Andrew Madl is an exploration of unrealized U.S. government nuclear proposals and their speculative impact on the western landscape. Through fictional narratives in a graphic novel format, the book imagines cultural and ecological shifts, illustrating infrastructures and economies that might emerge […]

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On the public entrance plaza to the former Nazi Military Base “Grossdeutschland”, built 1937 in Heidelberg, a new plaza design and sound installation reframes and recodes on-site artifacts and original sound fragments of the multi-layered military history of the site, from Nazi terror regime to the re-named U.S. Military Base Campbell Barracks and European Nato […]

/ Zaš Brezar

Arsenal Oasis is a unique project located in Tbilisi Georgia. It was designed for the Tbilisi Architecture Biennale by an urban design and research studio Ruderal. In this video, the designer Sarah Cowles explains the forces and circumstances that shaped the project. The LILA 2021 jury wrote: Arsenal Oasis is an experimental project that deals […]

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