MEMORIAL OF THE VICTIMS

OF THE VIOLENCE MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

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THE MEMORIAL OF VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE IS A
PUBLIC SPACE AS WELL AS A MEMORIAL FOR THE
REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE VIOLENCE.
THIS IS ALSO TO MATERIALIZE ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT AND CURRENT ISSUES OF THE
MEXICAN SOCIETY; VIOLENCE. THE SITE IS LOCATED
WHERE IT IS EXPOSED TO THE CITIZENS AND HAS A
STRONG PRESENCE OF NATURE.

LOCATION: MEXICO
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AREA: 15000.0 sqm
ARCHITECT: GAETA-SPRINGALL JOURNEY
ARQUITECTOS METAL PANEL
PROJECT YEAR: 2013
METAL PANEL WERE
ARRANGED ALONG THE SIDE

SITE plan OF THE PATHWAY THAT LEADS

TO THE GARDEN. IT SOMEHOW
REMIND THE USER ON THE
VIOLENCE THAT HAPPENING
SCALE
THE METAL PANEL ARE A FEW
AROUND THEM AND THE
TIMES BIGGER THAT THE
PEOPLE LIVE IN FEAR.
HUMAN SIZE. ITS SOMEHOW

RANDOM ARRANGEMENT SHOWED HOW THE VIOLENCE materials

EMPOWER THE IMAGE OF
THE METAL PANEL WERE MEXICO AS ONE OF THE MOST THE MATERIAL USED FOR THE
PLACED BETWEEN THE TREES DANGEROUS COUNTRY METAL PANEL IS A NORMAL
THAT CREATE A SENSE OF METAL WHERE IT RUST DAY BY
CONTRAST. ITS TO SHOW DAY, AND USER CAN DRAW
THAT THESE VIOLENCE WAS,NT ANYTHING ON THE SURFACE
SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN LIGHT AND OF THE RUSTY PANEL
floor plan SHADOW
THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE ITS TO SHOW HOW THESE
DURING DAYTIME, WE CAN VIOLENCE ARE GETTING
PANEL IS ALSO DIFFERENT.
SEE ALL THESE BLOCK WORST DAY BY DAY BUT THE
SOME OF THEM IS VERTICAL
SURROUNDING THE WHOLE CIVILIANS OF MEXICO THAT
AND SOME ARE HORIZONTAL.
PARK WHICH CREATE THE MAKES THE COUNTRY
TO SHOW HOW THEY MANAGE
SENSE OF THE CIVILIAN HARMONY EVEN THOUGH THE
TO OVERCOME SOME OF THE
WHERE THEY ARE TRAPPED IN VIOLENCE KEEPS HAPPENING
PROBLEM
THE MIDDLE OF THE
SITUATION.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE
spatial typologies PATHWAY
BUT DURING THE NIGHT
TIME WE CAN SEE ALL THE
THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE LIGHTING THAT LIGHTS UP
LINEAR TILES OF THE PATHWAY IS WHICH CREATE THE SENSE
THE PLAN SHOWS A SERIAL PROGRESSION NOT COMPLETELY IN LINE, OF THE LIGHT EMPOWER THE
WHICH STARTS FROM THE ENTRANCE. IT INSTEAD IT WAS METAL PANEL DURING THE
SHOWS THAT AS PEOPLE WALK THROUGH, THE ARRANGED SLIGHTLY LEFT NIGHT TIME. IT CREATE THE
SPACE GETS MORE COMPLEX AND MORE AND RIGHT. SENSE OF HOPE OF THE
INTENSE. MEXICAN PEOPLE TO BE FREE
ITS TO SHOW HOW THE FROM THESE VIOLENCE
MEXICAN STRUGGLE WITH
THE PAIN THAT THEY NEED
TO GO THROUGH