This morning I was staning next to our color copier making copies for work when I picked up an old architectural record magazine from 2005 that was laying in a stack. The cover had Eisenmen's Holocaust Memorial and this project has always interested me so I started to thumb through as the copies came out. In doing so, I stumbled upon this project below, the Yad Vashem history museum in Jerusalem by Moshe Safdie. I love the manner in whic hthe building has been incorporated into the landscape and how a series of courtyards, tunnels and bridges connect the pedestrian through the site. The ability to sink the building into the hill allows the interior spaces to remain dim, yet brilliant slivers of light are allowed in a key points throughtout.
For me, what is most usuful is the manner in which the building seems to grow from the ground. This is something that i am attempting as I go forward. Here, the large precast forms seem to simultaneously unnaturally cut the earth while growing from it.
Dave -
ReplyDeleteTake a look at the June ARCH RECORD - an Eisenman project on the cover that has the landform becoming building. It may inspire you as well.
I can see how you would relate to this project in your post based on the way your idea is progressing.
Hi Dave! This is great. One thing that I am thinking as I look through this post and consider what I last saw on your Voicethread is that HUMAN SCALE is clear in this project - As you develop the Hub and its connection through this week, I would like to see you tackle and consider what it means to relate a human to the spaces that you are creating. It seems that in your project there is only one scale/proportion - the dimensions "fit" (I use this term loosely) one or two people.....In this project I imagine that there many many types of spaces given the way that this related to people and the landscape. You can see in the images that you have posted that height and width are carefully calibrated with proportion to create a specific quality of enclosure/space/architecture....
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