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memorial museum staro sajmište Belgrade, 2011. mentor _ arh. Dejan Miljković Project of museum focuses on four Yugoslavian pavilions, part of Staro Sajmište, exhibition fair built in 1937. Due to flow of different types of destruction this place now holds only a memory of past events intertwined with ruins and overgrown bushes. Process of design is preceded with the intervention on the location. Digging and removing that particular soil is a first step in analytical thinking about all the lives it contained (plain field, exhibition fair, concentration camp, artistic pavilions, deserted field). Throughout that action base for new museum is detected, thirteen meters under the surface. Its roof becomes the extension of the surrounding flatness, left as a mark on the ground of the river Sava’s left bank. Museum is conceived as a continuous ramp. Decline is followed with the rise to the surface. Walk is accompanied with light but permanent endeavor, to overcome going down and climbing up. Presenting memorabilia is inspired with the idea of a black box. Black box can be interpreted as a device used in the aviation for collecting and securing data it comes across. Accordingly, all the artifacts available to public are kept in four of those monolithic boxes placed in spots of four former Yugoslavian pavilions. Most of them are visible outside. However, from that perspective they are only silent concrete blocks. While their content is fixed, the ramp is a polygon of action. The whole space is disproportionally vast, but at the same time claustrophobic and pressed with the life from above. |
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