Memorial Complex “Tutrakan Epopee“
Memorial Complex “Tutrakan Epopee“
Turtakan, Bulgaria
Client: LMPS
Type: direct award order
Program: museum complex with sculpture park, land of 25 decares, built-up area – 5000 m2
Project: 2013
Author of the idea: Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Ignatov
Responsible partner: Angel Savlakov
Project architects: Angel Savlakov, Ivaylo Andreev, Ralitsa Stoynova, Tanya Mitakeva, Gergana Simova
Team: Tsvetan Kyosev, Nikola Malinov, Yoan Tsankov, Boyan Stoyanov
Associates: Cordel EAD – counseling and budgeting
The memorial complex represents a single structure consisting of three related elements:
1. Museum building - organized as an open space area where service facilities are located in freestanding volumes which walls are used as an additional exhibition area. The main exhibition represents a wall with a length of 60 meters, designed to carry information about the First World War.
2. Outdoor covered exhibition spaces - designed to take organized groups of visitors, they represent amphitheater stands for conducting tour guide lectures. They further enable the exhibition of military equipment and requisites of the First World War.
3. Sculpture Park - represents an open green space, framed along the southern border with a series of sculptural groups. At the east end of the main pedestrian walkway in the west-east axis, an underground sacred space is located, visually continuing under the military cemetery.
Given the proximity to the military cemetery from the First World War, a unified structure with a discreet silhouette was created, located in its most part below the ground level, relying on the total synthesis between architecture and sculpture.
