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Addition to the Jewish
Museum
Overview
• Location Berlin,
Germany
• Design Daniel Libeskind
• Competition 1989
• Completion 1999
• Opening 2001
• Client Land Berlin
• Net Area 120, 000 sq. ft.
• Structure Reinforced
Concrete
with Zinc Facade
• Building Cost USD 40.05
“The Jewish Museum is conceived as an emblem in
which
the Invisible and the Visible are the structural
features which
have been gathered in this space of Berlin and laid
bare
in an architecture where the unnamed remains the
The Lines
Libeskind felt there was an invisible
matrix
of connections between the figures of
Jews
and Germans.
Combination of the invisibility of the Jews and the history lines of Jews
New vs Old
It is a museum for all Berliners, all
citizens.
It is an attempt to give a voice to a
common Fate.
The extension is conceived as an emblem of
Hope.
The void and the invisible are the
structural Features.
In terms of the city, the idea is to give
new value to the existing context
New vs Old
Building Configuration
The Voids represent the central structural element of the New Building.
From the Old Building, a staircase leads down to the basement through a Void
of bare concrete
which joins the two buildings.
Old Museum
Five Voids run vertically
through
the new building
Axis of Exile
Axis of Holocaust
Garden of Exile
The whole garden is at 12° gradient meant to disorient visitors with a sense
of total instability and lack of orientation.
Libeskind creates a dialogue between the past and the present of the
Holocaust, and most importantly, Libeskind poses the question, how
Machine – a expression
into architecture
“Machine contains within its self
the factor of economy, which
makes for selection.”
beauty of more technical order.
E CORBUSIER
OWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE
House is a machine to live in
A standard is definitively established by
experiment
lists tried to connect the workings of the human body to that of a mach
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Libeskind’s Three Lessons in
Architecture.
Reading Machine
"Teaches an almost forgotten process
of building, a process which is in its
own way not yet fully unfolded in
Architecture.