All files can be downloaded at: filefrontThe recent Haiti earthquake seen the lost of a estimate 220,000 lifes. This monument is designed as a memorial to commemorate these lifes and also to symbolize the unity of nations gathered to help the remainder of the population. The main feature of The Vitra Monument is the symbol of the cross. The cross is a symbol that is used in many cultural as a sign of life, fertility, and is predominantly used as a symbol to represent Christianity. It is formed by individual blocks at different heights to accomplish the structure. It resembles the shockwaves of earthquake, shattering the earth and its standing structure, as symbolize by the maze-like structure around the crosses.
The material used in this monument are mainly concrete. Concrete gives an aesthetics of solid, firm, to used this texture on a uneven block terrain gives a sense of chaos and destruction. Yet the concrete on the cross symbol is still whole and complete suggests the hope is not yet gone.
The blue glass texture is used to give the monument a modernity touch, as the one of the flaw in the Vitra Design Museum is that the materials are too blend and dull, although effective, it lacks the modernized style of a design museum.
The block terrain is inspired by the “Lego” project of the Bjarke Ingels Group architectural firm and the Jewish Memorial in Berlin. The Lego towers is an apartment complex utilizes the modularity and rationality of the Danish Modernistic building tradition to create a new kind of expressive architecture.
The Jewish Memorial in Berlin is a memorial designed for death during the Holocaust. It is designed by a New York architect, Peter Eiseman, after he won the design competition for the monument.
