Anagha Anand

AR3030

Berliner Mauer, or The Berlin Wall, is known for its spontaneous on-site construction, with its prefabricated concrete panels erecting a divide in the city almost overnight. One of the Wall’s most memorable characters is its impartial destruction of buildings that had the ill fate of falling in its path. The concept of the museum is a manifestation of this neutrality of the wall toward the built forms that it crossed paths with; the lawless wall is represented by large discontinuous segments of the wall, forming the major programmatic spaces within. The turning or “breaking” points between these segments are the pivots, which form the connecting horizontal circulation. The fragmentation or “breaking” of the wall is expressed through the profiles of the wall segments, with some of them forming “negatives” that fit into other segments’ “positives”. The cylindrical service towers are the major vertical circulation. The Wall Reconciliation Memorial is a cruciform indentation within the site, as an expression of the void that remained after the destruction of the Chapel in Berlin.