Most Mira (Bridge of Peace)

Peace Centre Design Workshop Scrapbook

Architecture
As Process

Most Mira Meeting with Workshop for Detailed

Most Mira Third Student Architectural Fourth Workshop for
Most Mira Design experts for research and Design 5 day
Young Exhibition and Design and Graphic Exhibition and Sourcing Preliminary
takes First Exhibition Workshop earth design with Development, Rammed Testing
Architects Second Public Workshop Design Public Earth Samples compression
ownership and Public and construction students and preparing the Earth Samples at
Workshop Exhibition and Consultation with students Workshop Consultation from 10 strength
Most Mira of future Consultation Developing Preparing the Lehm Ton young Developed Prototyping the Institute of
with archi- Design with youth from Banja with students, with youth locations from testing of
begins Centre with the youth Feasibility Concept Erde and architects Design for Residency Materials
tects and Consultation and local Lectures and Luka and UK, young archi- and local Prijedor, samples in
regular location and local Design Design, researching from Banja costing, with Lehm Ton Banja Luka
students from with students of community in Presentations and design tects and a community in Omarska and
program of and begins options with Expert Prijedor. 4 building Erde, 12 and
UK and BiH, community for architecture buildings built Luka (5), about the workshop with graphic Prijedor Kevljani.
Most Most Most Drama regular Prijedor local different permit and Students from preparation of
contextual the Most Mira from Banja Opinions and from rammed Sarajevo (5) Most Mira Lehm Ton designers Theatre, Preparation of
Mira Mira Mira Workshops Humanity Theatre, engineers and mixtures with preparing Banja Luka, Technical
research in Peace Centre Luka, at the Outline earth in and UK (2), in project for Erde in from Banja alongside samples for
Arts Arts Arts and in Action alongside the students, material from material for Sarajevo and Design for
project in Planning Austria and Kevljani, fundraising in Schlins, Luka and yearly preliminary
Most Mira Peace Centre Project Begins

Festival Festival Festival Kevljani and Music Pavillion, yearly 10 locations.

Productions program Kevljani. Prijedor. Permission Switzerland. Prijedor. crowdfunding. London. Tender.
Prijedor. Banja Luka. production. London. Austria. London. production. testing.
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Phasing
The scheme has been
designed to enable a phased
transformation of the existing
ruin into a group form with a
central courtyard as the needs
of the user community grow,
each stage being a part of a
dynamic participative
construction process. A mural 1.306
450 150 150 450
All exposed rammed earth tops faces to be
covered for protection. 3mm steel folded sheet
shown. Or equivalent to be recommended by
local contractor.

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

on the north facade inspires
Corner detail as shown on plan below. West
corner detail.

Trass lime mortar strips at 400mm height spacings,

all to specialist
0.900 contractors details and recommendations.
450mm thick rammed earth facade with 20mm H x

the use of the ruin as a

120mm W trass lime mortar strips at
400mm height spacings, all to specialist contractors
details and recommendations.

All exposed rammed earth tops faces to be

0.503 covered for protection. 3mm steel folded sheet
shown. Or equivalent to be recommended by
local contractor.

‘canvas’ or transformable Rammed Earth to concrete base detail.

Requirement tbc by LTE. Indicatively shown as
per ground detail on V05-GP-31. With DPM and
steel L-shape profile.

‘stage set’ fixed to the inside

Indicative concrete base shown- tbc by LTE and
local contractor
Material Dimensions m2 m3
Earth 0.98
Local Clay / utica - 13% 0.13
Gravel / Drenova a - 59% 0.58
Gravel fine / Banja Luka - 14% 0.14
Gravel fine / Marijanovic Prijedor - 14% 0.14

face of the new building

Steel coping 01 490 x 1000 0.49
Steel coping 02 490 x 1000 0.49
Steel coping 03 640 x 640 0.4

Concrete 0.12
foundation
Prototype C (L-shaped)
01
NTS Lime mortar 0.011

volumes and a new ring-beam,

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450
Concrete beam as per typical roof detail ( see

built in the first phase to October 2017 on site building

V05-GP-31)
150mm x 95mm

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
450mm thick rammed earth facade with 20mm
H x 120mm W trass lime mortar strips at
400mm height spacings, all to specialist

residency with students

1.300 contractors details and recommendations.

support the ruin.

Concrete ring beam to form lintel as per typical
reinforced concrete floor slab edge detail as
shown on (V05-GP-31)

0.900 Window opening. Indicative of Corner window

RAMMED EARTH
on North-east corner of building. As shown on
Plan below and V05-GP-07-F

All exposed rammed earth tops faces to be

covered for protection. 3mm steel folded sheet
shown. Or equivalent to be recommended by

PROTOTYPE WALLS
local contractor.
0.500

100 100 100 100 100

Rammed Earth to concrete base detail.
Requirement tbc by LTE. Indicatively shown as
per ground detail on V05-GP-31. With DPM and
steel L-shape profile.
Material Dimensions m2 m3
150 Earth (total) 1.349
0.100 Local Clay / utica - 13%
Gravel / Drenova a - 59%
0.18
0.80
Gravel fine / Banja Luka - 14% 0.19
Gravel fine / Marijanovic Prijedor - 14% 0.19

150
Steel coping 01 490 x 1450
Steel coping 02 490 x 1350

Steel coping 03 490 x 400

Concrete
reinforced 0.376

5 day Rammed Earth Prototyping Residency with Lehm Ton Erde, 12 Students from Banja Luka, Sarajevo and London. Photo: Adriana Keast/Most Mira
lintel beam

5 day Rammed Earth Prototyping Residency with Lehm Ton Erde, 12 Students from Banja Luka, Sarajevo and London. 01
Photos: Adriana Keast, Kemal Pervanić/Most Mira
Prototype A
Concrete foundation
Concrete roof beam
Lime mortar
0.295
0.398

Sketch: Tim Coles

NTS 0.022

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provjerene prije pristupanja procesu proizvodnje i izgradnje. Sve nejasno e trebaju biti prijavljene pravovremeno.
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Sve dimenzije postojecieg objekta oko atrijuma i oko nadkrivenog ulaznog prolaza u atrijum, te iznad nivoa poda na prizemlju nisu izmjereni
i trenutno su samo indikativno prikazani da se poka e kontekst atrijuma. Radovi na postoje i objekat nisu dio ovog projekta. Ovaj projekat
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Architecture as Process.
Digging of a new water reservoir
will not only recycle rainwater, The "Most Mira” (Bridge of Peace) Peace Centre is a unique architectural project designed for cultural and art activities, which will soon become a new home for charity Most Mira in
but also provide earth for the Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) - an independent group of activists, artists and experts from the UK and BiH who have spent the last 9 years working tirelessly on building peace in
construction process. local communities through organising art festivals and other art programs that have involved students, young people, schools from Prijedor as well as volunteers from all over the world.

WATER POOL Explore use of locally available Through art festivals organised between 2009 and 2011, Most Mira brought over 1000 participants to the symbolic location of the Kevljani playground, a small place in Prijedor 10 kilome-
concrete pipes, which are tres from the former Omarska concentration camp. The construction of the future Peace Centre is planned at the same location, linking two divided villages: Petrov Gaj (a Serbian village)
beginning to be used as a flood and Kevljani (a Bosniak village). The festivals were attended by students and youth organisations from divided communities whose members of different nationalities had the rare oppor-
tunity to socialise and be creative together in a safe space. Since 2012, Mira Mira has been developing regular programs, including 3 to 4 month long theatre workshops. The future Peace
prevention system infrastructure
Centre will enable the organisation to establish a lasting presence in the community and to host and develop its regular activities all year round.
CONCRETE PIPES
The Architectural Design transforms a war-ruined private house on the site into a vibrant public destination for the arts. The site carries the memory from the recent war, while a colourful
north mural on the existing facade represents more recent youth arts activities organised by Most Mira, which combined with the success of the charities drama program and numerous
public consultations with students and the local community inspired us to keep parts of the ruin as a 'canvas' for changeable stage settings. Newly built individual pavilion like building
structures built from rammed earth group around the adapted ruin as if engaged in a conversation, transforming the formerly private house into a public courtyard and outdoor theatre.
Rooms spiral off the central courtyard, including a flexible theatre, arts studio, craft workshop and dormitory’s for visitors.

Water Harvesting
Kevljani is not connected to
the municipal water network,
and falls into the flood-risk
catchment area, which
resulted in the worst floods
for 100 in 2014. Researching
and integrating water
conservation and drainage
systems that could become
a model and catalyst for
improving the infrastructure
in the village and other
areas in the municipality.
Some earth to be provided
on-site. Mud heaps and
‘slag’ from local iron ore
mine also abundant.
BUILDING EARTH
The Architectural Process, researching the context and participatory workshops are understood as an integral part of this project, which proposes that architecture is more than a built
product. The project includes the design of a holistic participatory architectural process, which enables Most Mira to respond to the needs and conditions of the community and future
users and in large part informs the design and form of the Centre.
Since 2015, the project has been developed in parallel to and as part of a regular educational, research and architectural program ‘Building Democracy Through Architecture’, organised
by Most Mira in collaboration with Project V Architecture, which serves as a platform for architecture students and young architects from Prijedor, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and London to
collaborate and participate in the development of the project through a series of informal collaborative design workshops and public consultations founded on social action in the local
EXISTING WELL community. At the same time these are ‘architectural performances’, which have the aim to enrich the architectural project with a democratic approach to design, which has until now
included research workshops, children's workshops and a travelling exhibition.
Upgrading and re-using of
existing well The Interactive Travelling Exhibition is one component of the participatory process, which was collaboratively realised by young architects and students, which archives and presents the
results from architectural workshops and collects feedback and impressions from public consultations, in order to enable us to continually develop, examine and update the project brief
and the design.
A student residency for building rammed earth wall prototypes was held in October 2017, with 12 architecture students and young architects from Banja Luka (6), Sarajevo (3) and London
(3) - which we led with experts Martin Rauch, Honorary UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, and Lehm Ton Erde from Austria, a world renowned rammed earth construction company,
municipal water which is the building technology that will be used for the building of the Centre.
infrastructure
FLEXIBLE stops here Building the prototypes was an opportunity to provide practical education for participants through training, preparation, building and recording the prototypes under the supervision of
THEATRE Lehm Ton Erde. The prototypes will remain on the site as the first phase of construction, for visual inspections and as a part of the outdoor landscaping and furniture. Most Mira plan to
integrate a series of regular residencies during the construction process, with the aim that the construction process could itself represent a live ‘real-time’ performance for building peace.
ARTS A local typology of
STUDIO
drainage ditches to be Mapping existing and pre-war local industries, materials and resources uncovered that earth was one of the most common traditional building materials, which was used in different
analysed and renewed. techniques and forms of construction in Kevljani and Prijedor before the war. Earth also represents a part of the cultural and architectural heritage in the north-western region of BiH and
SERVICE
JARAK adjacent parts of Croatia. In pre-war Prijedor, there were active clay mines and factories for the production of various clay construction products, some of which today export good quality
clay into the EU to be used in the production of ceramic tiles. We decided to mix clay from Kevljani with locally available waste materials, such as crushed stone, slag and gravel from local
stone quarries and the iron ore mine in Omarska, and to use the rammed earth process for building the future Centre.
The Rammed Earth Technology combines the common modern process of forming walls using formwork with the traditional earth building material, to revitalise similar forgotten tradi-
tional ways of building and to transform them into something current and relevant in the contemporary context. The benefits of this method also include low carbon emissions, low cost
LOCKABLE of raw materials, good thermal mass, while also promoting an honest way of using and celebrating the use of earth as both structure and facade. Through collaboration with rammed
OFFICE earth experts Lehm Ton Erde, our aim is to achieve the necessary quality and to develop the vocational educational focus of the project through trainings for the project team, young
architects and the local contractor in BiH in this technology of construction.

The entire amount of earth material required for construction is available from the area of Prijedor, Kevljani, the Omarska iron ore mine and stone quarries and depots within a radius of
half an hour drive from the future Centre. The process of preparing samples through the method of mixing different types and colours of earth, which are located in different areas from
divided communities, as well as making a strong ‘recipe’ for construction, represent a symbolic and conceptual metaphor for the wider project of peace building and reconciliation in the
area. During the workshops and public consultations in 2016 and 2017 we received many positive reactions to the idea for building with rammed earth from the local community. Many
visitors used this opportunity to approach us and share their memories about building their family houses from earth, or stories about other old local buildings made from earth. Some
visitors joined in with the rammed earth building residency. These moments on the project open the possibilities to bring people from divided communities together and showcases how
a familiar shared architectural material has exceptional potential to re-build social relations.

The Most Mira Peace Centre project recognises and builds on the social role of architecture and architects, and presents architecture as a vehicle for social change and building a heter-
ogenous society in a divided country. The architectural process of this project is represented as a model for building peace in a divided community, which could be transferred to other
Rammed Earth Construction parts of the region and beyond.
ARTS FESTIVAL SITE
With ‘landlocked’ local resources and
the abundance of local earth we aim Playing Field between
to develop the use of rammed earth village hall and school
MAKERS used for arts festivals
construction with expert consultants WORKSHOP
Lehm Ton Erde providing local training 2009-2011. Site of ethnic
as part of educational workshops for “PERFORM-WORK” cleansing in 1992.
student volunteers. The use of rammed Develop new
earth has symbolic, environmental and re-usable formwork
economic benefits. We aim to develop prototypes also to be
a sustainable formwork prototype with used for stage setting
a local temporary-fix company, to
enable the design and construction
process to become a performance in
itself through residencies.

Photo: Finished prototypes form the Rammed earth building residency 2017.
Decembar 2017. Vernes Causevic/ Most Mira
AWARDS \ 2018 Collegium Artisticum Architecture Award for Best idea Exhibtion 01 (October 2014) - Kevljani Exhibition 02 (November 2014) - Banja Luka Exhibition 03 (December 2014) - Prijedor
Team: Vernes Čaušević, Tim Coles, Amanda Rashid, Nadja Kunić, Nikola Vojnović, Nikolina Đenadija Team: Nadja Kunić, Nikola Vojnović, Nikolina Đenadija Team:Vernes Čaušević, Nadja Kunić, Nikola Vojnović

ARCHITECT \ PROJECT V ARCHITECTURE(Vernes Čaušević i Lucy Dinnen)

WEB \ www.projectv-arch.com
CONTACT \ info@projectv-arch.com

CLIENT \ Most Mira

COLLABORATORS \ Kemal Pervanić, Lehm Ton Erde, Kunić Gradnja, Tim Coles

FILMING THE ARCHITECTURAL PROCESS \ Adriana Keast

COLLABORATORS FOR THE TRAVELLING EXHIBITION \ Vernes Čaušević (PV), Tim Coles,
Amanda Rashid, Nadja Kunić, Nikola Vojnović, Nikolina đenadija,
Rada Latinović, Admir Islamčević, Adriana Keast

PARTICIPANTS AT ARCHITECTURAL WORKSHOPS \Vernes Čauševic, Lucy Dinnen, Tim Coles, Adriana Keast,
Nadja Kunić, Nikola Vojnović, Admir, Islamčević, Nemanja čađo, Nikolina đenadija, Amanda Rashid, Rada Latinović,
Kemal Pervanić, Kirsteen Tait, Sue Macmillan, Goran Matanović, Goran Kunić, Martin Rauch, Thomas Honermann,
Leonar Stieger, Anna-Pia-Rauch, Malina Čvoro, Dajana Papaz, Emina Čičkušić, Emina Osivčić, Kenan Muslić, Milica © 2011-2015 PROJECT V ARCHITECTURE KEVLJANI YOUTH CLUB INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION

Borić, Nedžla Seferović, Živko Vasiljević, Zoran Uljarević, Ben Moore, Ibrica Jašarević, Asmir Mutevelić, Vedad Photo: Nikola Vojnović/Most Mira

Islambegović, Sabina Filipović, Harun M, Deniz Mahmutović, Nikola Ostojić Photo: Nikola Vojnović/Most Mira.