Danish architecture studio CEBRA has revealed its designs for three visitor centres in Albania, which will be topped with protruding concrete slabs that reference "shifting tectonic plates".
CEBRA has designed the centres for Vjosa National Park ? Europe's "first wild river national park" ? which was established in 2023 to preserve 13,000 hectares of the Vjosa River region.
The aim of the project is to create immersive spaces for knowledge sharing and ecotourism.
Concrete slabs will top the trio of visitor centres in Vjosa National Park
"The main intention of our architectural idea is to illustrate how a wild river interacts with the landscape," founding partner of CEBRA Mikkel Frost told Dezeen.
"The projects should integrate with the natural environment to a point where they almost disappear," he continued. "We want them to appear as a part of nature rather than manufactured objects placed within it."
The Tepelenë Visitor Centre will be the largest of the three buildings by CEBRA
Across the scheme, the trio of structures will host educational, research, exhibition and community programs to encourage public exploration of the park's ecosystems.
Each one will aim to draw attention to different aspects of the environment but will share a monolithic, geometric language informed by the natural forces that shaped the Vjosa River.
A double-height lobby will sit at the centre of the Tepelenë Visitor Centre
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