This memorial was a project that was done for my Allied Studio. The Studio was Theory and Comp. this project was developed as a Holocaust Memorial to be located on the board walk in Atlantic City. The concept behind this project was the idea of compression and tension. I wanted the visitors to have a sense of the stress that was involved during the Holocaust. The idea is that as the visitors approached the memorial they would see these large hard, cold walls. They would have a limited view to the ocean side of the memorial giving a sense of mystery. As they journeyed through the memorial and discovered it they would travel through small spaces that would quickly release to the ocean side.
Also the wing walls that come out toward you have large, cold, jagged panels on them. These panels are based off of an extended line, these lines are generated from a map of the Holocaust concentration camps. Each camp is represented in the wall as a void in the wall. Each line represents the disorientation that the camp prisoners felt.
I like to think of this project as ordered chaos. The wall looks like chaos but really there is a lot of planning and structure in it. Also the Holocaust was a giant chaotic event for the victims but, it was very well ordered from the side of the enforcers.
