JEWISH MUSEUM

Architect: DANIEL LIBESKIND

It was made to show the GermanJewish history, the sufferings of the
Jews during the holocaust, a tribute
to those who lost their loved ones
during the war.

The new Jewish Museum(by Daniel Libeskind)

stands next to the old Jewish museum. Nobody can
enter the new museum from outside, one has to
enter the new museum through an underground
passage from the old building. There is no visible
connection above the ground.

CIRCULATION:
The circulation is frustrating, the view from the staircase
gives a haunted house feel, the staircase is long and
narrow that retreats from the eye.
The spaces are linked in such a way that the building looks
linear internally. There is a continuity implying hope of
continuity of the Jews.

MAIN FEELINGS/EMOTIONS
ASSOCIATED:
Horror
Terror
Trapped/cage
d
Deep misery
Haunted
Escaping
Grief
remorse

Violence
Helplessnes
s
Restlessnes
s
Agony
Remorse

Design elements used:

Floor slope upwards

Sloped walls
Dead ends
Darkness
Disorientation
Twists and turns
Narrow windows

Voids

ELEMENTS OF
BUILDING

number of voids is : 5
Light into these voids
can come through
small gap on top of
ceiling. There is no
artificial lighting.
Black exterior walls.
Emotions evoked:
Voids left due to the effect of world war 1.
There is a lack of light, the darkness evokes
Melancholic feel, it makes us feel uneasy and
Haunted.

Fallen Leaves

Also called Shalechet.

Steel faces punched.
Symbolises Jewish victims from
holocaust.

Feeling evoked:
Rusty smell of iron enhances the
Feeling of misery. This installation
Covers the entire floor of one void.
Cold, dark feel, as id we are trapped
In a gas chamber.

HOLOCAUST TOWER:

The axis leads us to the holocaust tower. At the

End of the path of death, there is a black door which
leads to the tower of holocaust

MATERIAL USED: Reinforced concrete

PURPOSE: To make people feel the impact of WW2.

TYPE: empty spaces and dead ends where light is only

Entering through a slit

EMOTIONS:
Moments of terror, where you feel like you can never
Escape, a small trace of light restores hope.
You feel that you are going nowhere, low spirit.

 GARDEN OF EXILE
Axis of exile leads to this place.
49 Concrete pillars on square tilted at 12 deg.
Russian willow oak grows on top.
Represents a ship wreck of history.

EMOTIONS EVOKED:
Sense of total instability
Lack of orientation
Uncomfortable because the
Path is narrow
Loss of reference point.

INTERSECTION OF 3 AXES
Makes it impossible
for us to see
everything at once
so, we tend to walk
in a loop and end
up feeling
confused.
The ground is
sloping and walls
collapsing and the
path leads to a
dead end.

FAADE OF JEWISH MUSEUM:

ATERIAL USED:
ntreated alloy of titanium and zinc along with
opper.

EASON:
will oxidize due to exposure to light and the
Weather conditions.
opper is related to the architectural history of
erlin, so that copper does not get oxidized, an
lloy of it using copper and zinc was made.
looks like a thunder/ lightening symbolizing the
mpact of WW2 and the holocaust.