Language of Tragedy in Architecture

Volume: 2 Number: 2 October 20, 2020
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Language of Tragedy in Architecture

Abstract

The nightmares of war, disaster, terrorist attacks, and genocide, etcetera, are daily redefining people's environment at all scales. Its impacts create uncertainty in the coherence of the three pillars physical, social, and economic of sustainable development. The most vulnerable harm is on the intangible endowment of human memory. The big pertinence under contemplation remains: Should we forget about the incidence that causes us to suffer desolation, loss of interaction, habitation, energy, and lives? In response, architecture has shown media potentials of communicating societal functions/events, beautiful or ugly, with buildings as a 'code' within the context. The study intends to analyze museums' architecture of remembrance as a medium for communicating tragedy, whether or not the architects/design teams of such museums encapsulated horrific conditionality's in the architectural language to create an effect on the users. A critical review of three museums of remembrance Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan; Apartheid Museum, South Africa; Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, Israel has been selected as three contexts Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.The study conceptualizes that the catalyst for horror is not selective but a global phenomenon with human existence. Furthermore, the configuration of museums of remembrance is a praxis house for human interaction void of race, class, and belief, which is opening up sustainable lines of dialogue for learning, reconciliation, and coexistence. Most importantly, architecture represents full lines in that social-cultural and community communication between people and their deplorable history. It has been observed that weirdly shaped structural elements, color scheming, lighting and surface texture of the spaces, the size of openings, and hallways either widely spaced or narrowly spaced, the orientation of the Museum in context, the combination of materials used, and the functional zoning and the spatial configuration of the Museum are tools to convey a sense of tragedy in architecture.

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Primary Language

English

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Authors

Evans Kimani This is me

Ejeng Ukabi This is me

Ugwulebo John This is me

Publication Date

October 20, 2020

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Year 2020 Volume: 2 Number: 2

APA
Onur, Z., Kimani, E., Ukabi, E., & John, U. (2020). Language of Tragedy in Architecture. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, 2(2), 48-66. https://izlik.org/JA34YB23KB
AMA
1.Onur Z, Kimani E, Ukabi E, John U. Language of Tragedy in Architecture. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi. 2020;2(2):48-66. https://izlik.org/JA34YB23KB
Chicago
Onur, Zeynep, Evans Kimani, Ejeng Ukabi, and Ugwulebo John. 2020. “Language of Tragedy in Architecture”. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi 2 (2): 48-66. https://izlik.org/JA34YB23KB.
EndNote
Onur Z, Kimani E, Ukabi E, John U (October 1, 2020) Language of Tragedy in Architecture. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi 2 2 48–66.
IEEE
[1]Z. Onur, E. Kimani, E. Ukabi, and U. John, “Language of Tragedy in Architecture”, YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 48–66, Oct. 2020, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA34YB23KB
ISNAD
Onur, Zeynep - Kimani, Evans - Ukabi, Ejeng - John, Ugwulebo. “Language of Tragedy in Architecture”. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi 2/2 (October 1, 2020): 48-66. https://izlik.org/JA34YB23KB.
JAMA
1.Onur Z, Kimani E, Ukabi E, John U. Language of Tragedy in Architecture. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi. 2020;2:48–66.
MLA
Onur, Zeynep, et al. “Language of Tragedy in Architecture”. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 2, Oct. 2020, pp. 48-66, https://izlik.org/JA34YB23KB.
Vancouver
1.Zeynep Onur, Evans Kimani, Ejeng Ukabi, Ugwulebo John. Language of Tragedy in Architecture. YDÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi [Internet]. 2020 Oct. 1;2(2):48-66. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA34YB23KB

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