This project was probably one of my most trying projects as far as developing a concept for the design. There is so many typical and common ideas for memorials; names, places or something that is a replica to that event. I was trying to create a space and a place in which people didn't just view they interacted with. With that idea for the memorial I started thinking about the event and the emotions the people must have felt at the time, I imagined what it would have been like living a normal life and then having everything taken away and their lives thrown into chaos. Which is how I developed the concept of "organized to chaos".

This concept is represented in the memorial by the textures, materials and patterns. Entering the memorial from the board walk there are flat smooth metal panels in large shapes. In clean, clear, organized patterns. As the visitor travels farther into the memorial the panels start to fracture more and dissipate into hard, jagged concrete walls. With angular lines that connect to punctures in the walls of the memorial. These lines are to represent the progression to chaos and it is an overlay of the concentration camps. The punctures are to represent the void that these camps created.

As the visitor makes their way through the memorial they are also directed into a focal point which was developed as a passageway. This was done to force the visitor to get the sense of being corralled, confined and the uncomfortable feelings that go along with those feelings. Once the visitor passes through the passageway at the end of the memorial they are released to face the beach. Giving the visitor the sense of light and hope which comes at the end of all bad things.