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Neo Borba

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Unit UG14
Year 3

Older citizens of Serbia undergo Yugonostalgia: the longing for a united people under a singular state. The younger generation has only known an ethnically divided country, affected by the destruction that the 1999 NATO bombing left on their society.

Neo Borba is a revival of the Yugoslav newspaper, The Borba. The building at the heart of this project is designed for news production, encouraging intergenerational knowledge exchange. Parallel to production systems, the secondary design principle focuses on the life of Eva Panic Nahir. A prisoner in Serbia’s brutal anti-conformist camps, Eva’s family's generational trauma symbolises why political discourse is needed to prevent the spread of dangerous nostalgia and the erasure of important narratives.

The building becomes an archive over time through printing processes occurring on external walls, such as etching, stamping, erasing and carving. The building becomes a spomenik: a Serbian monument producing pavilions from the building's waste material. Coming together in Serbia’s capital as a future representation of collective memory, the building defines itself through the cycles of news, weather and intergenerational exchange.

Floor Plans

Floor Plans

Located at the upper right of the plan is the preserved existing structure, refurbished to become a permeant archive, resistant to weather and time.

Aluminium Plate Archive

Once the aluminium printing plates are used in the printing process, they are transported from the print room into the archive to be preserved.

Neo Borba's Timeline

A CNC carving process reflects newspaper sales produced from the building. It becomes a physical timeline, weathering and chipping away at a controlled rate.

100 Years Apart

The ink and colour mixing room weathers away, leaving behind limestone columns and a floor slab, a monument of the past.

Neo Borba Introduction Film

Neo Borba Introduction Film

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