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This project is the reflection of two different, yet interconnected aspects of recollection. The first one, requiring a conscious effort to remember, is represented by the museum and the learning center. The second one, involving contemplation, becomes the memorial. The museum, along with the other programmatic elements, is the result of a clear succession of events triggered by the Sumatra earthquake. A series of displacements are plotted onto the site, according to a precise timeline: from the time the earthquake occurred, and following the series of waves that flooded the land, to the moment the sea level returned to normal.

These events are marked in space along the epicenter axis and in time, using the sun ray inclination. The displaced prism becomes the main exhibition space, one in which exhibits - objects of recollection - float freely. The zigzagging ramp moves in and out of the prism with the precision of its causality. It is frozen displacement. The memorial is the trace of this displacement, the physical absence replaced by countless shadows above, and infinite reflections and refractions from the prism. It is a place with no horizon, where the sea and the sky are one and the same.

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Memory Lines

Tsunami Memorial Museum Design Competition
Phuket, Thailand. 2005

Design: M. Razvan Voroneanu
Collaborator: Dan Bolohan

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