The article presents the research results concerning the architectural and
construction issues of the military fortifications built during the Cold War. These
buildings, conceived as a ‘diffused and continuous’ defensive system, strongly
characterized the landscape of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Developed by scientific accuracy, the study concerns the technical features and the
placement distributed along the eastern border. It began with the analysis of the
original projects, now declassified, then examining in an organic and correlated
way, the typological and formal characteristics, materials and building technologies.
Lastly, the possible refurbishment and reuse of this particular heritage are analysed.
