Architectural concepts and their manifestation

Theories of Architecture

Addition to the Jewish Museum

Overview

• Location Berlin, Germany

• Design Daniel Libeskind• Competition 1989• Completion 1999• Opening 2001• Client Land Berlin• Net Area 120, 000 sq. ft.• Structure Reinforced

Concrete with Zinc Facade• Building Cost USD 40.05

million• Four Story Building

“The Jewish Museum is conceived as an emblem in whichthe Invisible and the Visible are the structural features whichhave been gathered in this space of Berlin and laid barein an architecture where the unnamed remains the namewhich keeps still.”-Daniel Libeskind

The Lines Libeskind felt there was an invisible

matrix of connections between the figures of

Jews .and Germans

The architect plotted an IRRATIONALMATRIX

.which resembled a distorted star

‘ the yellow star that was often worn on .’this site

To give dimension to the deported , and missing Berliners conceptually

Libeskind makes , the invisible visible by trying to

’ trace the Jewish presence in Berlin s,sky

Design Conceptualization

.Trajectories between points AB

— .The Berliner Luft the air across Berlin

Crisscrossing Jewish and German .history lines

Design Conceptualization

.Star evolving into a zigzag

Combination of the invisibility of the Jews and the history lines of Jews and Germans

New vs Old , It is a museum for all Berliners all

.citizens It is an attempt to give a voice to a

.common Fate The extension is conceived as an emblem of.Hope The void and the invisible are the

.structural Features , In terms of the city the idea is to give new value to the existing context

New vs Old

Garden of Exile

Tower of Silence

Old Museum

New Museum

.The Voids represent the central structural element of the New Building

, From the Old Building a staircase leads down to the basement through a Void of bare concrete

.which joins the two buildings

Building Configuration

Five Voids run verticallythrough

the new building

Walls of bare concrete

Not heated or air conditioned

Largely without artificiallight

Axis of Exile & Axis of Holocust

Axis of Exile

Axis of Holocaust

Garden of Exile

- Forty nine concrete stalea rise out of the square plot

° The whole garden is at 12 gradient meant to disorient visitors with a sense .of total instability and lack of orientation

Those driven out of Germany Oleaster grows on top of . pillars symbolizing hope

Tower of Silence

The Axis of the Holocaust leads through a heavy black steel door into

.the Holocaust Tower

It is a void outside the museum.Building

It is a bare concrete tower 24 meters.high

, - , It is not heated air conditioned or.Insulated

It is lit by a single narrow slit high .above the ground

.Noises from the outside can be heard

The bare and empty tower pays tribute to the numerous Jewish victims of mass

.murder

The structure of this building goes far beyond the physical realm.

It addresses the social structure of Berlin and the absence of Jews in Berlin.

Libeskind creates a dialogue between the past and the present of the Holocaust, and most importantly, Libeskind poses the question, how do we deal with the scars from the past?

Machine – a expression into architecture

“Machine contains within its self the factor of economy, which

makes for selection.”

House is a machine to live in

.A beauty of more technical order

.An aesthetic nearer to its original origins

LE CORBUSIER TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

A standard is definitively established by experiment

Parthenon is a product of selection applied to a standard .

Architecture operates in accordance withstandards .

Standards are a matter , of logic analysis and

;minute study they are based on a problem which

.has been well defined

Human Body – A machine

Metabolists .tried to connect the workings of the human body to that of a machine

.This led to a brief age when brutalist architecture and evolutionary buildings came up

Living Example

& – - Yamanashi Press Broadcasting Centre Kenzo Tange Japan

, “ ”, Just like Le Corbusier Form follows function the idea of METABOLISM .confirmed to its principle

, Embedded in the premise is the question of aesthetics language and.style

Capsule Tower – a memory

– – - N akagin C apsule Tow er K isho Kurokaw a Tokyo Japan

. The C apsule tow er had m odules that w ere m achines m ade to hum an scale

Libeskind’s Three Lessons in Architecture.

Reading Machine

" Teaches an almost forgotten process , of building a process which is in its own way not yet fully unfolded in

.Architecture

, The wheel revolves and in completing a revolution returns to its starting

point while exposing its own . uselessness and kinetic beauty

" " , Executed in a medieval manner with

glue less joints and using no energy , of a contemporary kind this machine

represents the triumph of spirit over; . matter of candle light over darkness  

, It is made solely from wood as are ." the books

Memory Machine" ( The Memory Machine dedicated to

) Erasmus consists of the backstage - only the spectacle takes place . wholly outside of it  

" " , Done in a Renaissance style of being the Memory Machine abounds in the kind of inventiveness and caprice that we

. associate with the Odradek

This project represents the stage of Architecture's appearance and is a

. testament to its own manifestation   Made of wood also are the eighteen

, subordinate spectacles which include " ". : the schizophrenic forum   Colourless the bloody red illuminates the shiny

exterior of an inner sanctum dedicated . to what remains nameless   Metal is - used exclusively for non structural

, reasons related as it is to light. ." itself   Ropes are used throughout

Writing Machine