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My Ideas On Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
The main aspect of the work is having too much layers in
terms of meaning. I think it is efficient to have so many metaphors feeds both
from imagination of its abstract form, historical and cultural sides. I will try
to understand the reasons why people who visit this area generating lots of
meaning, what is new and controversy in this work and what is Peter Eisenman
touch in terms of architecture and what are the traces of the other arts and
Jewish history-cultural interfaces.
It is not a traditional symbolic memorial; there are
noticeably less elements-details-directions than the other holocaust memorials.
People are free to enter the site every time, day or night, from right or left,
it is open site.
“I’m constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man” says
Primo Levi, a writer sent as a prisoner to Auschwitz
concentration camp.
So I thought that the memorial’s form could be considered as
the total of the units and the unit (stands) itself. Because built blocks are
as buildings in the city and another small city within a city. It also could be
seen as people and society. It is for commemorating the importance of a person
and the society.
The form is simple; there are about 2700 rectangle grey steels and
narrow empty spaces for walking. It is like Eisenman just put grey papers to
make people imagine what to draw on it. It makes people talk in their minds and
experience the present when there is no subjective direction to manipulate them.
It is like a free cage.
There is a question in my mind:
Does this area have a special effect both physical and
mental? If yes, how we can describe it; Holocaust-Nazi camp effect, uncanny
labyrinth effect,
Is it a positive or negative space? -URBAN
If we say usable areas (the steels of which people can walk,
sit, stand, touch) as positive space and the untouchable areas as negative
space, the site is positive and active space. It is effective to make the site
touchable and not putting a distance with people.
Information Centre - STORYTELLING
One person as a symbol of holocaust like the protagonist of
the story
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