11MAR 2016
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The road surface is made from a homogeneous texture of cobblestones arranged according to an orthogonal grid, whose continuous repetition is interrupted implantation of plaques dedicated to a single victim.
© Walking in the Jewish area, you can notice groups of bright stones compose abstract shapes that look like architectural concepts, and all of them are built by stones square.
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The project proposal is based on the desire to decode this random process and create a memorial space built on the simple modules repetition, each one is dedicated to a single victim.
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The design process, which transforms the cultural reference in an architecture, can be described as an evolutionary process in four phases:
1) Memorial wall
The memorial wall is composed by simple elements repetition: it is a block, 15cm height and variable length, as well as in the case of the floor cobblestones of the Jewish ghetto, they host an incision in the memory of a victim.
© At the beginning of the design process the wall is imagined straight and placed on the position line of the extraction chimneys present on the square.
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2) Gate
The project site can be described as a large white altar connected to the road by a stairway, it is characterized by the presence of two big boxes. The two volumes can be imagined as a large portal and for their symbolic force will be integrated into the architectural composition.
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3) Flows
Beyond the portal there is a light sculpture, so that visitors will be attracted by the light and tempted to cross the line of the two volumes to get in symbolic memory place.
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4) Memorial gate
At beginning of design process the memorial wall was straight, in the other phases it is bended to accommodate the visitors’ flows, it becomes the outline of a memory place.
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The memorial gate / Giuseppe Vultaggio
Posted in Architecture - Installation by Giuseppe Vultaggio | Tags: Cultural, Architecture, Design, Bologna, Memorial
The composition process to design a monument for Holocaust victims is inspired by disposition of commemorative plates housed in the floor of the Jewish area in Rome.

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