OAD Transforms Bunkers into a Coastal Retreat on the Baltic Shore
Design Milk | 29.04.2026 13:00
Few coastal sites in Northern Europe carry the weight of SAR’s foundations– four grass-covered Soviet-era military bunkers and the remnants of an occupation that reshaped both the Baltic landscape and its people. Rather than erase this history, Riga-based OAD founder and lead architect Zane Tetere-Sulce folds it into a working premise. The question at the heart of the project is not simply how to build on the Latvian coast, where creeping dune erosion, protected biotopes, and rising Baltic waters make construction increasingly fraught, but how to build with a charged site – one where architecture has, through time and overgrowth, become nearly indistinguishable from landscape.
