Project Solana Ulcinj addresses the Biennale di Architettura
2016 theme “REPORTING FROM THE FRONT”
by reporting about this crucial project in Montenegro,
which is caught up in struggles between the local and
the global, nature and culture, tourism and sustainability,
economy and the social realm. Project Solana Ulcinj
wants to offer spatial strategies that may guide new
syntheses for these conflicts. As the Solana Ulcinj is currently
torn between conservation and economic interests,
it finds itself at an impasse. It is therefore crucial to
develop new plans for the future of the saline which are
both ecologically and economically sustainable. Project
Solana Ulcinj takes the challenge to come up with
new proposals of how to save the important ecological
position and the unique cultural qualities of the landscape,
while at the same time enabling and regulating
economic interests in the area. To generate a public debate
in Montenegro, four practices are selected. All four
of them represent very different positions in the field of
landscape architecture and sustainable development.
This will give new input to and thus enable to open up
and speed up the decision making processes around
the Solana Ulcinj. It will also stimulate the debate about
architecture and landscape architecture in Montenegro
and establish an international exchange.