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Sarah Bartmann Centre of Remembrance COMPETITION
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The pre-determined site (as identified by others,) stems from a particular logos of a empirical minimal impact on the physical landscape, but does not suggest an innovation of siting practice in terms of exploring heterogenous and thus multi-valent cultural space. The intention of the site is to create the conditions in which the pilgrim, visitor, tourist, employee, and scholar become signifiers in an optimised spatial journey which is not trapped in the banal constraints of a normative positional strategy, but rather that approach and the experience of the building- landscape are seen as concomitant and of equal importance. The intervention is seen as a series of overlapping fields of relationships which position the memorial mound and Paris in a three way conversation across space and time and meaning. The intervention has a cosmic relationshipto the heavens, using a very particular arrangement for architectural clues, whilst embedding the primary axis of the building along a valley which in various pre-colonial cultures often represented the earth mimicking fertility of woman. The allocated site is seen as a series of gardens, ranging in thematic approach from fertility, to nourishment,tamed and wild. The garden itself has many antecedents in colonial culture as a form of classification and authority over nature, and this site is seen as the creation of an environment where there will be a more stimulating dialogue with the built environment and the natural.Design PurposeHow can architecture be critically deployed as an instrument in the network of human flows, cultural and commercial exchanges, public space,and urban life? How can architecture spatialize this cultural context and confront the restructuring of social and cultural values brought on by the evermore-uncertain status of the body?The overall approach will be experimental with regard to both program and design methodology. The design will be divided into two sections, which will operate at multiple scales. A ground plane which represents animpactful immediate engagement with Sarah through various tools as described in the brief. This landscape intervention nestles into the earth and is oriented towards the valley. The elevated intervention is a site of reflection, learning and scholarship that connects the building to the memorial grounds to the normal hemisphere through its orientation. The result is a spatially powerful tension between the cosmic and terra firma, the spirit of place and a constant reminder of global hegemonising forces.
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