1st place in the competition
The overarching objective of the narrative to be told by the architectural concept proposal was a complementary demonstration of the enormous scale and danger of aid. The applied minimalist architectural figure, being a facade of the house and its finial, reflects the historical continuity of the syntax of time and place. On the other hand, it reveals the drastic nature and power of the situation (sharp finial of the rear part of the building). The building with its horizontal structure blends in the existing land plot, simultaneously reflecting the singularity of the interior syntax.
The mass of the building stretches on a rectangle-shaped land plot with the dimensions of approx. 45 x 66 m. Its surroundings (e.g. the nearby open-air museum) have determined the form of the museum’s elevation, and enhanced with its geometry the nature of the ambience. The building inscribes itself in and is open to the local space, which marks its great esteem for the regional architecture. The Museum and the adjacent land complement the functional needs of the buildings in the neighbourhood by opening itself to the public space of the remaining land plots, and on the other hand by fencing itself off in a natural manner (“Remembrance Orchard”) from the school pitch. The Orchard references to a distant garden – the Yad Vashem memorial. Its symbolism provides contrast to the dark structure of the mass.