http://belzbergarchitects.com/publish/los-angeles-museum-of-the-holocaust-f449a/index.html Project Title: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Status: Completed Project Type: Cultural Building Type: New Size: 32,000 sf Location: Los Angeles, CA http://belzbergarchitects.com/publish/_assets/lamoth-web-00-1-75fb8c.jpg http://belzbergarchitects.com/publish/los-angeles-museum-of-the-holocaust-f449a/index.html/index.html 800 384 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:25:19 -0500 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:23:09 -0500 Red Rocket Content Management System Credits: Design Architect: Belzberg Architects Principle: Hagy Belzberg Project Manager: Aaron Leppanen Project Team: Chris Arntzen Bill Bowen Justin Brechtel David Cheung Brock DeSmit Barry Gartin Warren Bradley Lang Daniel Rentsch Erik Sollom Eric Stimmel Cory Taylor Ryan Thomas Carina Bien-Wilner Lauren Zuzack Structural Engineer: Risha Engineering Mechanical Engineer: John Dorius & Associates, Inc. Electrical Engineer: A&F Consulting Engineers Plumbing Engineer: Tom Nasrollahi & Associates Soils Engineer: Irvine Geotechnical Methane Engineer: Carlin Environmental Environmental Engineer: Enviropro, Inc. Special Fabrication: Spectrum Oak General Contractor: Winters-Schram Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:18:01 -0500 http://belzbergarchitects.com/publish/los-angeles-museum-of-the-holocaust-f449a/credits-16ff28.html Highlights: • Museum building in a public park; submerged into landscape terrain to maintain open park space • One of the largest intensive green roofs in Southern California • On track to receive LEED Gold Certification from the USGBC • Building material: formed shotcrete and glass • Building construction including displays equals $450/sq ft • Architect collaborated with the New York office of Potion to create interactive digital content • Design Awards received prior to completion: Los Angles Cultural Affairs Commission Award and the Green Building Design Award presented by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Contextual Strategy: The new building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) is located within a public park, adjacent to the existing Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial. Paramount to the design strategy is the integration of the building into the surrounding open, park landscape. The museum is submerged into the ground allowing the park’s landscape to continue over the roof of the structure. Existing park pathways are used as connective elements to integrate the pedestrian flow of the park with the new circulation for museum visitors. The pathways are morphed onto the building and appropriated as surface patterning. The patterning continues above the museum’s galleries, further connecting the park’s landscape and pedestrian paths. By maintaining the material pallet of the park and extending it onto the museum, the hues and textures of concrete and vegetation blend with the existing material palette of Pan Pacific Park. These simple moves create a distinctive façade for the museum while maintaining the parks topography and landscape. The museum emerges from the landscape as a single, curving concrete wall that splits and carves into the ground to form the entry. Designed and constructed with sustainable systems and materials, the LAMOTH building is on track to receive a LEED Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council. Circulatory Strategy: Patrons begin their procession at the drop off adjacent to the park. Their approach is pervaded by sounds and sights of laughter and sport—of kids playing in the park and picnicking with their families. Because the building is partially submerged beneath the grassy, park landscape, entry to the building entails a gradual deterioration of this visual and auditory connection to the park while descending a long ramp. Upon entering, visitors experience the culmination of their transition from a playful and unrestrained, public park atmosphere to a series of isolated spaces saturated with photographic archival imagery. As part of the design strategy, this dichotomous relationship between building content and landscape context is emphasized to bolster the experience inside the museum and allegorically correlate the proximity with which German forest revelers enjoying public parks were to sites of horrific and inhumane acts being carried out in 1930’s and 40’s. Visitors exit the museum by ascending up to the level of the existing monument, regaining the visual and auditory connection with the park environs. The first room is titled, “The World That Was”, and incorporates a large, single interactive table, mimicking a conceptual “community” or dinner table. The exhibit brings a large group of patrons together around one interactive exhibit. The lighting of the interior galleries dim as the visitor steps down into the subsequent rooms where two separate exhibits depicting “Kristallnacht” and a “Book Burning” display divide the singular crowd—diminishing the “community” provided by people nearby. Through the third room and into the fourth, the floor continues to step down as ambient lighting becomes scarcer leading individuals to the room titled, “Concentration Camps.” The ceiling is low, and the room is almost entirely illuminated by individual video-monitors—about the size of a notebook—which limits viewing to a single spectator. The visitor is now confined to the most isolated, darkest and volumetrically concentrated underground area in the museum. The journey from this point forward is one of ascension and of finding the comfort of familiar space as floor levels begin to rise and natural lights begins to penetrate the interior once again. The final ascent up to the existing monument is filled with sights and sounds of unrestricted park land. 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