The Jewish museum in Berlin-Design Concept?

Question

I am doing a paper abt the jewish museum in berlin by Daniel Libeskind. I need to know the concept behin the current form of the museum. I knows its a shattered David's start but if anyone would help me with any images or figuers showing the idea behins the form. Thanks

Answer 1

Quotes: The building is very distinctive from other museums, since it does not respond to any functional requirements, but is rather constructed to create spaces that tell the story of the Jewish people in Germany. Libeskind also has used the concepts of absence, emptiness, and the invisible—expressions of the disappearance of Jewish culture in the city—to design the building. The museum itself is a work of art, blurring the lines between architecture and sculpture. The view from above is that of a large zig-zag line, which earned it the nickname "blitz", German word for thunderbolt. The main building is covered with zinc plating, and the windows are just lines that cross the surface in a random fashion. These lines were created from connecting different sites in a Berlin map that are important to Jewish history. This building has no access of any kind from the street. The entrance is located in an adjacent building, a museum of German history, through a staircase and tunnel embedded in a concrete tower that goes through all the floors of the German museum. This symbolizes that German and Jewish history are inseparable, violent and secret. The staircase leads to an underground site, composed of three hallways, called axes: The Axis of Death, leads to a concrete tower that has been left empty, called The Holocaust Tower; The Axis of Exile, which leads to an exterior square courtyard composed of concrete columns and that has been tilted in one of its corners, called The Garden of Exile; and The Axis of Continuity, that goes through the other two hallways, representing the permanence of Jews in Germany in spite of the Holocaust and the Exile. This axis leads to a staircase, which in turn leads to the main building. The entrance to the museum is intentionally made difficult and long to instill in the visitor the feeling of challenge and hardship that is distinctive of Jewish history. One of the towers was called the Memory Void for those affected by the Holocaust.

Images: http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/04-Photos/Libeskind-Building-outside/libeskind-building-outside.php
http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/03-Libeskind-Building/00-Normal/normal.php
Holocaust Tower: http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/03-Libeskind-Building/06-Holocaust-Tower/holocaust-tower.php
The Museum's Voids refer to "that which can never be exhibited when it comes to Jewish Berlin history: humanity reduced to ashes." (Daniel Libeskind, 2000) http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/03-Libeskind-Building/03-Voids/voids.php
Groundplan: http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/03-Libeskind-Building/01-Groundplan/groundplan.php
Facade: http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/05-About-The-Museum/03-Libeskind-Building/02-Facade/facade.php
http://nymag.com/arts/architecture/features/38356/
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/jewishmuseum/

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Sorry. I forgot to add this. Read: http://vacation.away.com/attractions/travel-ad-cid6306-Berlin-attid147502-J%C3%BC+disches+Museum+Berlin+(Jewish+Museum+Berlin).html

www.daniel-libeskind.com