How do we commemorate wars that have been televised? This is an architectural question: How do you represent mediatised trauma through architecture? The idea for this project, The Museum, is to ride the rail of the uncanny; an experience that ‘leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar” (Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny ). For my thesis I designed several hauntingly beautiful corridors for the pedestrian tunnels in Union Station as domestic spaces that have formed the backdrop to war, including a bathroom, a living room and a swimming pool. Why remember the blowing curtains in someone’s bedroom or the green tiles in a pool or the mustard yellow walls in a hospital? It is because you cannot absorb the rest of the image; it is because those backgrounds remind you of your everyday environments.
Schools: During the Civil War in Yugoslavia, we saw infamous images of prisoners of war held captive in elementary schools, mainly in children’s washrooms.The white subway tiles were particular in the photographs. Today, most of these schools are still used today.Time has changed, but the washroom tiles are still intact. above: Novka Cosovic, Modified Architectural Graphic Standard, Basketball Court below: The Museum. Washroom Tunnel
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