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OLIVE - The Dough Factory
RETROFIT AS A SECOND FERMENTATION: THE STATE OF BECOMING.
We love the process, the true matter of the materials, rawness, and the imperfection of the state of being/becoming.

Set inside a former industrial shell, the project treats retrofit as a second fermentation: the building is not “renovated” so much as re-awakened. Dough is a matter in suspense. It is neither raw ingredient nor final bread; it lives in the interval, in the waiting, in the patience of time. THIS PROJECT BORROWS THAT CONDITION.

Instead of presenting the building as complete, it deliberately remains IN A STATE OF BECOMING. The spatial organization follows the logic of a temporary shop, not because the project is provisional, but because production is never static. Semi-permanent enclosures hold what must be held—changing rooms, toilets, walk-in freezers—like functional organs placed with restraint.

Everything else stays open to adjustment, reconfiguration, and rhythm. Boundaries are drawn with raw stacked blocks left raw, unfinished on purpose, like the product itself. The concrete floor is not covered to hide its rough truth. It is kept visible—only sealed for hygiene—so that every movement happens on a surface that admits its own origin.

Light reinforces this metaphysics. Simple round fixtures hover like small suns—neutral, recurring, almost ritual—suggesting that the daily cycle of production is its own kind of timekeeping. And then, the twirling LED line cuts through the space like a drawn gesture: the spiral of the spoon, the torque of mixing, the continuous motion that turns ingredients into structure. It is not decoration so much as a trace of process—a luminous reminder that MOVEMENT IS THE REAL AUTHOR OF FORM.

Në këtë episod, me Adelina Tahiri Nela do të flasim për arkitekturën e qëndrueshme dhe mënyrën se si dizajni mund të ndikojë në të ardhmen e hapësirave tona dhe të planetit.

Do të eksplorojmë se si praktikat e qëndrueshme po integrohen në projektet arkitekturore në Kosovë, cilat janë sfidat dhe përfitimet e kësaj qasjeje, si dhe se si arkitektura mund të krijojë një marrëdhënie më të përgjegjshme me mjedisin. Në fund, episodi hap një reflektim më të gjerë mbi mbeturinat dhe ndikimin e tyre në të ardhmen tonë, duke pyetur: “Kur u bonën mbeturinat trashëgimia jonë kolektive?”

Ndëgjoni bashkëbisedimin e plotë në këtë link: https://shorturl.at/mvjVP

Bashkëfinancuar nga Bashkimi Evropian dhe Fondacioni i Shoqërisë së Hapur. Pikëpamjet dhe opinionet e shprehura janë vetëm të DYVÓ dhe nuk pasqyrojnë domosdoshmërisht ato të BE-së apo OSF-së. As BE-ja dhe as OSF-ja nuk mund të mbahen përgjegjëse për to.

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In this episode, Adelina Tahiri Nela talks about sustainable architecture and how design can shape the future of our spaces and the planet.

We explore how sustainable practices are being integrated into architectural projects in Kosovo, the challenges and benefits of this approach, and how architecture can create a more responsible relationship with the environment. Finally, the episode opens a broader reflection on waste and its impact on our future, asking: “When did waste become our collective heritage?”

Listen to the full conversation at this link: https://shorturl.at/mvjVP

Co-funded by the European Union and the Open Society Foundation. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the DYVÓ only and do not necessarily reflect those of the EU or the OSF. Neither the EU nor OSF can be held responsible for them.

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