Abstract

The research program aims to provide an innovative contribution aimed at the creation of computer data, aimed in turn at the knowledge, protection, and enhancement of the architectural heritage. This richness, in Albania, is characterized for the most part by small military defensive structures; in other cases, it is a complex articulation of spaces and volumes. Throughout the Albanian territory there are 750,000 bunkers built during the Cold War, different in shape, material, and annexed environments such as those used as a shelter, defense and ammunition storage. This text is therefore intended to offer a multidisciplinary look, providing an analysis of the experience lived in the Balkans, of the military architecture of forgotten outposts. By investigating these architectural artefacts, a response to the rampant phenomenon of abandonment is presented, demonstrating that the cognitive, graphic and virtual analysis of these places is the indispensable premise for any process of valorization of urban areas, unable to express their real identity and the relative architectural quality built up over the centuries. New technologies can narrate them and create points of view developed through virtual spaces, to stimulate new ways of fruition.