| Title |
A Study on Architectural Continuity of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2019.35.12.83 |
| Keywords |
Continuity; Continual Space Network; Form of continuity; Continuity of Space; Continuity of Time |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to analyze the continuous forms of time and space that work as architectural design principles of the Memorial
to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Jewish Memorial). Continuity is divided into two, physical and non-physical attributes. The former extends
from small installations to furnitures, finishes, spatial composition, and even spatial networks that complete architecture, and the latter is tied
to time, from traditional to historical, developmental, commemorative or memorial elements. They are inherent in architecture as continuous
forms. The Jewish Memorial is analyzed by the analysing framework of these two items. The analysis of the two layers can be summarized
as follows; physical continuity is found in the space networks of the Memorial's inside and outside, the undulating spaces, the finishes, the
small furnitures and installations, the entrances of staircases, the expanded underground of the ground order, and non-physical continuity
manifests in the topological variation of spatiality, the morphological development of memorial architecture, the connection of semantic sense
of space, and the superposition of historicity and modernity. These forms of continuity do not aestheticize the German enormity history, but
make the meaning of the Memorial into non-superficial, in-depth architecture as a monument. Thus, the results of this study show that
physical and non-physical continuity should be considered as the important design principles of architecture that makes the Memorial
architecture possible. |