Memory Anchor
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Evandale Parkland: A Memory of Place “ARCHITECTURE is a thing of art, phenomenon of the emotions, lying outside questions of construction and beyond them. Le Corbusier This thesis explores the role of atmosphere in architecture and conceptual mapping as a means of evoking a deeper, more personal sense of meaning through memorial experiences that connect living memory to a communal understanding of place/history. WHY?
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Peter Eisenman Steilneset memorial to the victims of witch trials, Peter Zumthor Under the compact of globalization, humanity’s relationship to its history has been significantly altered. Modern culture is being abstracted away from a living connection to memory. Pierre Nora described the tendency as ‘things tumble with increasing rapidity into an irretrievable past.’ Nezar pointed out that cultural memory become less place sited but more information based, as a result of the origin rapidly become a passing moment of the history and the relevancy of environment is on longer there. ‘It is architecture’s intrinsic role to mark memory through the delineation of place and orientation.’ Those words underscoret the significance of memorial architecture for a reconnection to living memory that positions people meaningfully in relation to the past and the urban living. The methods to capture the past and evoke the sense of place has been discussed with different opinions. In “Atmospheres” Peter Zumthor states the capability of material to link architecture and the surrounding objects. Peter Eisenman emphasizes on conceptuality and Post-structuralist theories. They disagree fundamentally between ‘emotion and rationality, phenomenology and autonomy, between materiality and concept, between being in the world and transcending it’. This project is aimed to present a new relationship between individual memory and the way of experiencing space. WHAT?
Massive Explosuion in the Port of Tianjin, Fenghuang News Ecological Park Proposal, Tianjin Government This thesis project proposes a memorial architecture for victims of the massive explosion in the port of Tianjin. It is aimed to develop a new relationship between individual memory and the personalized experience in memorial space. New landscape plugged in creative architectural pieces will be designed to serve as a space to reconnect individual memory to the urban living, instead of simply soothing victims’ wounded hearts. The Port of Tianjin is the largest port in northern China and the gateway to Beijing. It significantly contributes to the industrial characteristic of the city and promotes its economic development. Moreover, on 12 August 2015, a series of explosions that killed over one hundred people and injured hundreds of others occurred at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin. The site of the project is selected in the center of the heavily damaged district. It is also known as a high risk zone of chemical pollution. As a part of the reconstruction proposal by Tianjin Government, this site is planned to be an ecological park in 2016. It is controversial that whether people need one more ordinary city park for walking dogs or an experiential, memorial public space to transform the traumatic experience into enjoyable urban living. The challenge of this thesis project is to produce a memorial architecture with experiential landscaple alternative to the actual scheme by government. HOW?
Sketch of Thermal Bath Vals by Peter Zumthor Model of Galicia City of Culture by Peter Eisenman 1.Through a sensitive analysis on site, it is required to capture the spirit of the place, using multiple media (collage, watercolour, mixed techniques, digital drawings). BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Le Corbusier, 1931, Towars a New Architecture, Courier Corporation 2. Peter Zumthor, 2006, Atmospheres, Walter Könog 3. Pierre Nora, 1996, Realms of memory: rethinking the French past, Columbia University Press. 4. Juhani Pallasmaa, 2001, The Architecture of image: existential space in cinema, Rakennustieto 5. Nezar AlSayyad, 2014, Traditions, Routledge 6. George Maroussis, 2012, A Crematorium on Time and Memory
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