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Situation
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Project
The Republic of Senegal Ministry of
Education and Arts planned the construction of a central venue for African
cultures, called Mémorial de Gorée, at Cap Vert, on the extreme western point
of the African Continent. It is supposed to be a place for remembrance as well
as a place of awakening and the future. A centre to remember
the suffering of slavery as well as the
birth of modern Africa. The Mémorial de Gorée is a monument and a museum, a
symbol and a functional area; both aspects form an inseparable whole within
the architectural complex.
The predominating colours of the building are gold, white and black.
The whole conception is comparable to a “cosmic system”, where the expanse
of sky and earth meet in the horizontal line. “Africa’s sun” shields the continent,
the cracked body of history. The sensorial nature of the geometric building
and its vivid reference to nature, the traditional ideology of African beliefs
join the rationality of the European Enlightenment and manifest themselves in their
complexity as a “universal language”.
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Idea
The Mémorial de Gorée is situated
on the coastal plateau at the western
edge of Dakar, about 16 meters above
sea-level. It is designed as a rotunda
complex with a cupola, 110 m in diametre
and 36 m high. Space sectors, set into
the rock in a circular pattern create a
rotating movement through their vertical
as well as their horizontal lattice design.
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Stadtkante
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The Focus
In view of the rich variety of Africa’s people this place is seen
as a focal point, a “melting pot” for all cultures, historical
views and resources in order to aid and orientate future developments.
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Seeigel
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The Cupola
Nearly the whole building complex is roofed by a gold-coloured cupola construction.
This cupola, a stylistic element which is well-known in Africa, is at the same time
a shelter, a tent or roof as well as a signal, shining across vast distances like
the sun rising from the sea. The interior of the cupola is a space to project
desires, hopes and a belief in mankind. As a place to project future events, the
hemisphere is not tangible or physical. The monument as a spiritual space
is empty; only people’s visions and thoughts enter this room.
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The Circle
The circle as a base figure represents in its concise simplicity,
a global principle of life and time, where past, present and future
meet. It signifies the basic rights of livelihood, equality and
liberty and offers a forum where the idea of “human rights”,
tolerance and identity are proclaimed.
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Hütte
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The Structure
The cupola is a wooden lattice shell, covering about 3.800 m2 ,
built using a curved bar construction.
The Skin
A net of brass wire is stretched over the bars,
creating a unified gold-coloured surface on the
outside. The heat under the cupola, created by
irradiation, can escape to the exterior through the
net holes. Thanks to the illumination from the inside
“Africa’s sun” shines even at night as a symbol of Dakar.
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Ansicht Landseite
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Ebene -2
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Ebene -I
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Ebene 0
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The Museum complex
The shape of the rising hemisphere towers directly over the coastal plateau.
The museum complex situated underneath is cut into the depth of the dry
land and is so assigned to the continent as the body of African history.
The diversity of the single departments: museum, library,
administration, research department, venue for events and
planetarium are united in this functional room of the
“Mémorial de Gorée”. The physical nature of the museum
complex in the ground counterbalances the non-physical
projection room inside the cupola which hovers above.
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Grundriß Ebene -2
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The Rotation
Access to knowledge stored, is based on tension and movement.
The architectural complex of the single departments appears therefore
as a rotating system of different building levels.
The Store
The Museum complex stores knowledge. Objects and documents are encoded,
archived and, transformed into sounds, exhibitions or publications,
reproduced like on a CD.
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The Physical Structure
The various public and non-public areas are connected in the shortest
and most economical way, being physically structured by circular segments.
The inner ring around the central air well, opens the departments for visitors
and the public. Service departments such as administration and technical
services are situated in the outer rings of the museum platform. This platform
is vertically structured into four levels (level +1, 0, -1, -2). Level +1 provides
a circular walkway around the whole memorial park.
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Collaboration:
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Birgit Bierbaum
Nadia Chabbi
Jens Urlichs
Edgar Zappe
Manuela Zappe
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Artistic Concept:
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Anselm und Margarete Dreher
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Theoretic advices:
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Jörg Klambt
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Construction advices:
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Christian Müller
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Computer graphics:
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Christopher Eckett
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MICHAEL GROLLMITZ STEFAN ZAPPE DIPL.-ING. ARCHITEKTEN
ANNA-LOUISA-KARSCH-STR. 7, D-10178 BERLIN
FON +49-30-24721075 FAX +49-30-24721076
EMAIL: info@grollmitz-zappe-architekten.de
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Projects
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Gartenstadt
Geldern
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Klinik
Lindenhof
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Mémorial
de Gorée
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Wohnhaus
Herzog
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Wohnhaus
Kosnick-Stan
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Sommerhaus
im Grünen
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Lectures
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Metropolen
und die Kraft
ihrer Bilder
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Exhibitions
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uToPos
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