Atul Krishnan

AR3030

The Berlin Wall was the barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of communist East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989.The Berlin Wall came to symbolize the Cold War’s division of East from West Germany and of eastern from western Europe. Instead of the wall becoming a division, the project envisions the wall itself as an encompassing space, the wall as an ambulatory. 
 The long rectangular volume of the project is transformed on both sides, one side by tacked-on geometric iconography, gradual transition from regular geometry into more abstract and ethereal forms and fragments ; and the other by the pragmatic service corridor and service cores that, seen from the inside of the project, appear to offer views to the sky. The project is a monumental conflagration between abstraction and pragmatism with the mediating agent of the project`s surreal journey in the center: It`s almost magnetic, pulling together Berlin and providing a space for self reflection.