Walkable map [1]
The territorial vastness of the Atlantic Coast is presented with a collage of 'blown up' re-assembled ‘batteries and fortress engineers maps’ printed onto a 12 by 3 meters floor carpet. Eccentrically positioned in the middle of the patio lower level, the map is at first visible from the mezzanine above and then compulsorily crossed after descending through the round stairs. A stroll over the reconstructed coastline offers a close look at the multitude of planned bunkers, military facilities, defense lines, shooting ranges and strategic areas. The redundancy of the enterprise is most efficiently emphasized by the text underlining each installation and neatly laid out on the geographical maps. The southern end of the walkable map points at 5 hung up introductory banners presenting the complete list of the codified buildings erected by the 3rd Reich between 1942 and 1944, while the northern extremity looks toward a long and big furniture.

Archive drawers [2]
9 medium density fiberboard boxes 70 cm tall and 1 m deep are placed on 9 skinny aluminium tubular structures and elevated at eye level. The sequence of the 6 countries united by the wall is presented through the sequence of the 9 boxes and of the 96 study cases printed on 96 panels.
Each box (out of three standard types) can contain 6, 10 or 12 panels that, when slid out, show their printed surfaces.
Made of etalbond, a very light, stiff and printable aluminium composite material, the panels (or drawers) are folded in their end parts which work as 'handles' and show the color and the code assigned to the specific study case contained. The 9 boxes together appear as a sort of wall floating 130 cm above the floor and work in the same way of a traditional archive when activated and looked up by curious visitors.
Pvc bars are mounted inside the boxes allowing the panels to smoothly slide outside and inside. Each country is composed by one or two boxes of different width according to the selected number of bunkers installations. The boxes can be directly used to transport or stack the panels, and the dismountable aluminium supporting structures look as the boxes wire frame extruded projections.

Floating tablets [3]
250 A5 pages, or tablets, are hanging from the ceiling of a compressed part of the patio under the entrance mezzanine and in front of the Faculty Library. A series of metal wires are fixed between the beams supporting the mezzanine and connected to the tablets through 250 little metal chains that can be casually slid along the wires by the exhibition onlookers or passing-by students. On each page, made of the same etalbond material, is printed a different codified exemplary typology of bunker, from the tiniest resistance nest to the most enormous submarine hangar facility. This floating 'cloud' of tablets lays at eye level and allows people to walk through in any directions; at the same time these 1:333 scale black and white drawings of schematic plans and sections provided by Rudi Rolf invite people to browse through and try to render the diversity and the multitude of the different bricks that constituted The Wall.

Along the wall [4]
70 of the numerous pictures shot by Guido Guidi are presented in the small gallery above the patio. The enclosed, tranquil, long and narrow room has just been made as much uniform as possible by cool grey painted side walls and light sources oriented toward the sequence of wood framed photographs. The pictures are organized in different groups according to the specific location where they have been taken. A beamer is placed in the gallery in proximity of a large window and oriented toward a big canvas suspended on the patio below that is exposed to the most possible surrounding viewpoints. The beamer projects in a random, continuous and silent loop a never ending slide-show of the complete visual material collected, selected and organized in the Atlantic Wall Linear Museum project.