The D-Day Memorial Bunker

寄件者 MArch_Term 02

Previous projects are the process of exploring the relationship between the landscape and the object. It is the space where motion object is moving and is changing the geometry of the landscape during the collision on the surface. The collision is the moment when object imprint the mark on the landscape as a trace on the surface. After the collision is the time when dust raise on the air and covering the trace and the object, the partial geometry of a dusted object and the covering dust landscape are created. It is the place where time and location is overlapped and waiting for the next accident to arrive. From this extent, the covered and covering object and landscape can be seen as a series of archeological layers, the overlapping layers of dust that indicate the events happening inside this space.

The issue of time based landscape is brought to an architectural program of a D-day memorial bunker. This is a bunker where stores the past event that happens during the war time, and a memorial dust landscape situated inside as a narrative of a space. War bunker is a pure functioned structure for weapons and soldiers to inhabit. It is the structure without any stylization, its aesthetic and function only meaningful during the war time. During the end of war, the aesthetic and function of the bunker is erased, the meaning of the structure is collapsed, but the mark and the trace of the war accidents still exist. For instance, the hole on the wall remembers the location of the impact of the bullets, the track of the tank squeezing on the surface of the land as trajectory of the movement and the explosion of the bomb that scattered the metal fragments all around the space as a boundary of collision. These are the imprints which left on the surface of a landscape as memorial evidence of accidents. The dust then covered and recovered on these marks over time, the traces of the accidents might partial submerged but not disappeared.

The design can be in several components to discover the narrative of a space through the landscape. The first part of the project is the recording device that acts as a reporter on the field during the war time, the device that is recording the location of a bullet hit on the wall, the vibration of the explosion on the surface, the tracks of soldiers and vehicles on the ground. These are the information of the event happening in the past. When the time passes by, the place of war bunker no longer functioning. The recording device covered with dust that was partial emerged on the ground is still waiting for the new event to come and begin to decay and to rust. It is the death of the bunker but the trace of the accidents still remains but suspended, it is the time when object become a dusted object.