Thursday, September 11, 2008

Pentagon Memorial Conceptual Drawings

The conceptual design envisions serving as a permanent record to express the magnitude of loss through an architectural experience of place radically different than what we encounter in our daily lives.

A memorial park is inscribed with one-hundred and eighty-four memorial units. Each unit is dedicated to an individual victim - its placement and place within the collective field is a unique instance.

Elegant in its self-supporting form, the memorial unit is at once a glowing light pool, a cantilevered bench and a place for the permanent inscription of each victim's name.

The field of memorial units is arranged as a timeline of the victim's ages, from 3 to 71. The western edge of the site is defined with an "age wall" that grows an inch in height relative to the age represented by the rows of memorial units.


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