08-21-2023, 12:40 PM
Requiem for tolerance -Architecture and disjunction, remapping displacements on the margins of a genocide
Chennai
Neha Haris
Jury Comments
• The vehicular transition requires greater understanding in a city Like Bengaluru where people depend on individual transportation.
• Build ing a future metropolis one has to be extremely cautious.
This thesis explores t he role of placelessness in architecture. The memory of a human is Largely and closely related to the place he once habituated. This thesis explores the architectural implications of the feeling of placelessness and Loss of identity. The intent is to highlight the connections between architecture, place, and Living memory.
The focal point of the project Lies in spatializing disjunction through architecture. The attempt is to form interconnections between knowledge of these events and the act of remembrance in order to open up discourses of tolerance. Many pioneering research organizations emphasize the need for a record of such brazen incidents
for further prevention of similar histories of human intolerance. Through the process of analyzing the warning signs that arise ahead of an attempt of ethnic cleansing, research forms the base for opening up the conversations that need to be addressed. This combined with the spatialized storytelling in the form of a museum allows for the narrat ive to bear more meaning and simultaneously roots itself in its necessity.
The project also Looks at transforming the narrative in the form of a Landscape experience that aids in a more holistic understanding of a meaningless act such as a genocide. The thesis aims at bringing out episodes of importance to the story that represent the diverse and contradictory conditions of civilians throughout the civil war - the war bunkers and the forests of kilinochchi (vanni) abstracting their forms in order to repurpose their strengths in the complete narrative, simultaneously touching upon the whole spectrum of loss and hope.
By exploring the role of placelessness in architecture, disjunction of the present was attempted to be addressed through the imposition of the need for critical memory of
brazen events in order to provide platforms of discourse on tolerance and inclusion.
Chennai
Neha Haris
Jury Comments
• The vehicular transition requires greater understanding in a city Like Bengaluru where people depend on individual transportation.
• Build ing a future metropolis one has to be extremely cautious.
This thesis explores t he role of placelessness in architecture. The memory of a human is Largely and closely related to the place he once habituated. This thesis explores the architectural implications of the feeling of placelessness and Loss of identity. The intent is to highlight the connections between architecture, place, and Living memory.
The focal point of the project Lies in spatializing disjunction through architecture. The attempt is to form interconnections between knowledge of these events and the act of remembrance in order to open up discourses of tolerance. Many pioneering research organizations emphasize the need for a record of such brazen incidents
for further prevention of similar histories of human intolerance. Through the process of analyzing the warning signs that arise ahead of an attempt of ethnic cleansing, research forms the base for opening up the conversations that need to be addressed. This combined with the spatialized storytelling in the form of a museum allows for the narrat ive to bear more meaning and simultaneously roots itself in its necessity.
The project also Looks at transforming the narrative in the form of a Landscape experience that aids in a more holistic understanding of a meaningless act such as a genocide. The thesis aims at bringing out episodes of importance to the story that represent the diverse and contradictory conditions of civilians throughout the civil war - the war bunkers and the forests of kilinochchi (vanni) abstracting their forms in order to repurpose their strengths in the complete narrative, simultaneously touching upon the whole spectrum of loss and hope.
By exploring the role of placelessness in architecture, disjunction of the present was attempted to be addressed through the imposition of the need for critical memory of
brazen events in order to provide platforms of discourse on tolerance and inclusion.