Brief/ Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum.

Before proceeding with the final architectural design project of the year design a brief for it was the current task. Issues such as client’s type of function and relationship with the site and other relevant type of aspects had to be looked in to. Ever since visiting the Villa Dei Quintile site the type of design I’ve been looking to do is a historic, archaeology museum which in my view seemed to be justified with the activity on the site, also the fact to have a place where all the artefacts taken in the early excavations be returned and house in a place with a connection with the ruin and the catacombs which are all over the archaeological park. A precedent study which in a way summarises my intension for the next project would have to be Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel, Jerusalem. This project has a vast circulation corridor (18m high and 172m long) where most of it being underground and the galleries spaces feeding of it are submerged further creating feel of being in bunkers. The idea is in my view similar to that of the catacombs but the way Moshe Safdie and associates came about this design is truly monumental as it cuts through the mountain which overlooks Jerusalem. A fine precedent to take reference for the next project.