Milena Stopic [ M.Arch. Thesis, Fall 2009 ]Air Memorial: A New Commemorative Architecture
The architecture of commemoration typically regards the ground as the locus of history and therefore the primary material of reflection. However, when what is being commemorated has not been returned to the ground, we can instead conceive of an architecture of air. The historical affair providing the substrate for the project of this memorial is the extinction of Serbs and Serbian Jews in WWII by means of gas-asphyxiation. Beyond the mere traumatic recollection, the project seeks to express a novel thinking in commemorative design, whereby the notions of the use of overt traditional imagery, references, symbolism, meaning and narrative, shift to a favoring of diagrammatic abstraction, thus having the memorial act so as to evoke a specific human condition, rather than to (often literally) cite the peculiarities of the historic circumstance commemorated. The concern of memorial architecture has transferred from that of the narrative to that of the mood. This thesis sets to advance the discussion of the memorial by proposing, as a new model, an architecture that acts as a cohesive assembly of effects that re-echo one another and fuse into a singular vision.
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