Paloma
Plaszow - Poland
NEW DIMENSIONS FOR A HIDDEN PARK
Plaszow concentration camp and Liban quarry – Cracow – Poland
YEAR 5 - Design, Strategy and Intervention
The design is grounded on the idea of becoming the choreographer for the site. The aim is to draw a sensorial journey highlighting the changes of heights; masses and the rich ecosystem that currently occupy the site. My personal experience and interaction between physicality (senses) and the vastness of the landscape achieved whilst walking across the site, have been fully integrated upon the design process. Plaszow is shaped to allow people to move spontaneously and contemplate the landscape.
The simplicity of the design naturally question people’s perceptions in regards to the complex history, using natural systems as the bases of all interventions. The landscape is designed as a per-formative process to enable people to experience sequences of spaces and atmospheres that are all very diverse and unique across the entire site.
My response is simple, work with what is there; draw on its vast expanse, add structure, lucidity and use the ecological richness of the site to provide a new life to the area. The design uses ecological systems to establish a flexible landscape that reveals or conceals the camp site historical remains throughout time and seasonality. Working with living systems enables to put in place a landscape that allows for life to continue after that of the proposed design project. The approach is based on how hydrology, topography and planting can shape to some degree the public’s perception of the Holocaust.
The idea is to shape and manage a shifting landscape that contradicts with the once entirely controlled and rigid landscape of Plaszow concentration camp.
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