"DASKAL BRNZALOV" FOUNDATION
This is where it all started...
The Juniper Project
It all started with the dream of a student in Italy to bring back to life the old school in a village of the ancestors of her father. The Juniper project afterwords got transformed into foundation “Daskal Branzalov”
A little village Hvoina, hidden in the warm lap of Rhodopy mountain, was the stage of two festivals – the motif: “No stone will remain unturned”. All gathered funds were used to reinforce the roof of the old school, designed by the famous Bulgarian architect Bojan Chinkov who worked in that region. The dream of ours – the whole building ensemble to receive a new lease of life hasn’t died yet. it is just put on a halt.
We really want less sad stories about abandoned schools and community centres like the one in Hvoina. This is the main reason why the little team of Foundation”Daskal Branzalov”does a research and afterwards plans how to preserve and renovate buildings of exceptional architectural values. We believe, demonstration of their qualities can prevent blunt intervention on them.
Architecture of the Bulgarian Memory
The first step were made – a few events were organised. Those events of the series “Architecture of Bulgarian memory” were a mixture of something practical and something fun. The gatherings consist of two segments – lectures and wine painting with the wine provided by our friends from Villa Melnik. Our guest lecturers were Teodor Carakolev and Vasil Makarinov from Foundation “Bulgarian Architectural Modernism, as well as arch. Dora Ivanova from “Project Buzludga”Foundation.
The pandemic ceased those events, but soon we will resume our activities with the focus on new topics, interesting lecturers and quite a bit of food for thought.
