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1:50 Lightwell Cast

Maggie’s Farm was a biotope created amongst the ruins of the historic Tacheles arcade and within the bomb crater adjacent. Local people brought structured natural life back to empty spaces of the city. Through atmospheric architectural representation, the lightwell element within the academy houses is a memorial to the loss of this natural landscape that was demolished and excavated in preparation for the re-densification of the block. Within the deep plan, the lightwell offers a reflection back to the natural world, and the spectacle of light.

With inspiration from Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Chapel, the lightwells funnel natural light into the centre of the academy studio spaces. The shuttering shall use natural remains removed from empty sites in Berlin that are now being built upon again. After being burnt away, the surface quality left shall serve as a reminder to what has been living in the empty spaces of berlin during it’s process of restoration and re-design.

‘‘I think it is more about creating a feeling for the things that are absent than about creating a feeling of presence for things lost. So I try to create a feeling for things that are no longer here or for the lost context of things that are still here.”

Peter Zumthor

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6a Architects - Paul Smith Shopfront

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Making / Synagogue + Dome

Grey Card ONLY

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Palast Der Tacheles: The KunstHaus Arcade

This 1:5 column detail study returns to the overarching narrative and Walter Benjamin’s musings on the Angel of History. It interrogates the tension between the angel and the devil, where the progressive spirit is built upon a dark, ruinous perception of memory. This manifests in an incomplete connection,  fighting a way to suppress the darkness, whilst re-shaping one’s perspective on history to ‘complete the circle’, attaching a newly optimistic way of thinking to how one perceives and overcomes the events of history.  

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Yiddish Cafe - Addressing / Barricading to the street

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Jacob Adler Yiddish Theatre Academy + Cafes

Card Model @ 1:200

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Yiddish Theatre Facade Panel

Card Study

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Jacob Adler Yiddish Theatre Academy

Card Model Explorations

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Take the vivid ambivalence and tension in the two following contrasting claims. Luda, a twenty-five-year-old law student, assertively posited: “Germany is a comfortable country to live in, and I like it, and I should not be ashamed of the fact that I want to live in this country when it gives me such a comfortable life.” Another woman in her forties whispered to me: “Here, we are nothing but traitors. We are the betrayers of our grandparents. Many of us feel that way, but few of us would dare to say it. What’s for sure is that my grandparents are turning in their graves.” Torn from tradition and deprived of its content, haunted by multiple, internalized anti-Jewish images, and further undermined and devalued when used as a ticket for migration to the country responsible for the Holocaust, Jewish identity has been devoured from the inside out.

Gitelman, Zvi Y. The New Jewish Diaspora : Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany. Rutgers University Press, 2015.

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“The Temple menorah, with all of its ornate and extremely elaborate craftsmanship, was not there for any practical purpose: it stood in the Heichal: a windowless hall only seldom frequented by people. Yet it was there as a symbol of the holiness of that place, of its relation to light.”

Shades Of Light by Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz)

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Your life is this three-chambered house. Because you are three selves: your material self, which participates in and interacts with the material world; the spiritual you, which relates to the ideas, feelings and altruistic yearnings in yourself and others; and your ultimate self, the “I” that comprises, and (therefore) transcends, both matter and spirit.

Three Chambers by Yanki Tauber

Spiritual Embodiment within the readings of Judaism

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Colour In Faith initiative

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Unorthodox - Netflix Series

Director Anna Winger states, ““Dislocation, a reason for coming, grappling with history, the metropolitan New York-ness of Berlin. There was a lot of common ground we’d found in normal conversation. The show, in a funny way, became our way to build out from those talks.”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/26/unorthodox-behind-the-deutschland-83-co-creators-new-netflix-series

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Sketch Development work @ 1:200

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8.0 ELEMENTS TRILOGY

A car full of wood

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7.0 MEMORY MAKING MEANING

Atmospheric model photographing

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