The large box is overwhelming. It looks magnificent because it is enormous an defies gravity. The calm and reflecting waters of Lake Ohrid are the perfect background. The ancient lake its not intrusive and generously hosts the box. The wide basin was there long before the dawn of homo-sapiens, it hosted the first Europeans, it nurtured them. It still does.
The lake is a center, things gravitate around it and borrow from its qualities. We build our boxes around it, our houses, our apartment blocks, hotels and restaurants. We fill its shores with boats and umbrellas. We eat its fish and use its water. We need the lake. The lake doesn't need us. We are actually just temporary tenants. This view would be equally beautiful even without the mega flying box.
Endrit is an architect from Tirana, Albania engaged in exploring, through drawing, phenomena of our built environment. His works supersede their primary architectural dimension by becoming complex graphical essays... Read more…