The Harrow / WORD

Sep 2010

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Our friends from WORD [Warren Office for Research and Design] shared their proposal for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial. The competition, which attracted over 700 submissions, asked participants to use the existing seaside pavilion at Atlantic City, New Jersey to create a kind of public space that commemorates the Holocaust and continues to bring awareness to the horrific happenings. “Its purpose is to fix our collective memory, to bear witness, to embrace the ineffable sense of loss,” explained the competition brief. For the Harrow, WORD creates two drastically different environments offering a strong visual to understand the happenings of the Holocaust and a place to calmly reflect.

More images and more about the proposal after the break.

On the exterior, the jagged form pierces through the dunes, acting as “an apparatus which inscribes in our memory the history of the Holocaust.” Yet, once entered, the tone of the memorial completely changes. What once appeared chaotic and destructive has become subdued into a calm and luminous space.

In terms of the form’s geometric composition, the continuous shell of undulating triangular peaks and valleys relate to the plan’s triangular logic. The undulation is “reminiscent of the passage of time and the ever changing swell of emotions that great tragedies impart upon civilization.” Conceptual, the undulating peaks were conceived as an endless construct that simply sheared off at the site boundary.

A platform branches off the existing boardwalk and brings visitors meandering across the plan’s Magen David form. A traditional dome is subtracted from the whole, further revealing the order of the memorial and its ceremonial potential.

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Principal: Christopher Warren

Project Team: Hana Ogita

Cite:
Cilento , Karen . "The Harrow / WORD" 04 Sep 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/76455>

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Andrew says:

It seems strange to have thousands of gentiles a year treading on the Magen David.

# September 4, 2010 at 10:38

toy says:

What’s up with all the architecture offices’ names lately?? I wouldn’t give a job to an office with a name like that.. word.

# September 4, 2010 at 11:39

LOW says:

Please… get over the Holocaust…

# September 4, 2010 at 12:34

jose says:

I want to land my parachute on top of its roof!

# September 4, 2010 at 18:04

GENTILE says:

I am not Jewish, but really, get over the holocaust, what kind of antisemitic prick are you!

# September 4, 2010 at 21:53

GENTILE Nº2 says:

there are genocides happening right now in Africa, who is building projects for them? may be that’s was the point of LOW.
But out of context that sounds as wrong as considering strange having “gentiles” watching or visiting the project.

# September 6, 2010 at 00:11

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