SPIRAL STAR
【A contemporary
observatory for a new dialogue among humans and non humans】
SPIRAL STAR is the memorial . For the sustainability of
the peace and the democracy of the human right to the next generation, we need
the timeless dialogue with human and nature. The experience is the
understanding each other calmly with the natural phenomenon at the Atlantic City.
The
memorial is created by the people who hope the peace and the democracy of the
human right all over the world politely and slowly, and the memorial will have
a lot of love and become the open symbol at the Atlantic City.
The memorial is for the historical
Holocaust, and the memorial should be understood as Holocaust Memorial. And it
is created by the movement of the Jewish star and the wall caved Holocaust
testimony.
According to the sustainability of the natural
environment, we should optimize the natural light energy and ocean vistas and
wind fluidity at Atlantic City.
During the day the memorial façade save the natural night, and at night the
memorial façade illuminates without electricity for the zero emission and low
impact maintenance. And for creating and keeping ocean vistas the memorial is
tapered tower.

【The movement of the
Jewish star】
The operation of the creation the Holocaust

memorial is simple, strong impact and
vandalism.
1.      Jewish star
2.      Pieces of star
3.      Offset the edges
4.      Overlay pieces
5.      Half cut and reversal vertically

【Timeless Nature
Dialogue】
At the edge of the cloister, we can have
the calm and dynamic dialogue with the nature by the framing beautiful Atlantic City landscape,
Natural light, Ocean vista and wind fluidity.

【Timeless Human Dialogue】
In the cloister, we can have timeless human
activity dialogue. One side is created with the acrylic glasses with the
present and future people peaceful minds, on the other side is caved wall
Holocaust testimony of the past historical people.

【Natural Sustainability】
The facade pattern is based with the movement
of the Jewish star, it illuminates clearly with the dark black background of
the ocean.
During the day the memorial façade save the
natural night, and at night the memorial façade illuminates without electricity
for the zero emission and low impact maintenance.

【Relationship of the
memorial to the site】
Acrylic glasses receive the natural white
light from south, and the glasses illuminate rainbow beautiful colors. The
memorial opens 360 degrees views, to the south we can enjoy the panoramic ocean
view and to the east-north-west we can enjoy the sunrise, sunset and boardwalk
from the new high viewpoint of the tower memorial.

【Crossover History】
＜Present, Future mind＞
One side wall is created prism shape
acrylic glasses. The glasses are stacked and the prism pattern makes Jewish
star as the memorial symbol.
The glasses have natural random beautiful
rainbow color spectrum. These glasses are by the donation all over the world
people who agree the concept of the Holocaust memorial, and the donation system
is good for the economy for the construction, and such a way is real 21 century
sustainable architecture.
＜Past History＞
On the other side wall is caved Holocaust
testimony. It gives us very strong impact, because the victim number and name
is so many and the expression is repeat way, it is the unforgettable real
history.

【Open fluidity】
Fascinations of Atlantic City are specially Ocean vistas,
Natural Light and Wind fluidity. To keep these fascinations in the memorial,
the memorial is porous open spiral for views, ventilation and beautiful
contrast of light and shadow.

【Organization among the
Nature and the City】
The memorial is tower shape for having new
high vista point, and taper shape for keeping vistas from businesses tenants on
the boardwalk side, and the tower height is less than sixty feet.
The organization of the architecture by the
movement of the Jewish star is quite simple and the construction is feasible.
＜Timeless Dialogue space
among humans and non-humans＞
The memorial is open and accessible from
the boardwalk side easily and we can walk around the memorial on the boardwalk
level in the project site for keep relax space and ocean vista for the
pedestrian on the boardwalk.
＜Assembly space＞
The space is calm and open to the ocean
vista, because the level is different from active boardwalk label.