Parametricism: The Jewish Museum By Daniel Libeskind

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Parametricism is a design style within contemporary avant-garde architecture. It involves all elements of design becoming parametrical variables. As a concept Parametricism rejects sequential replication in favor of differentiation as key design element. Its aim is to build up more spatial complexity within the design elements themself while maintaining both empty fields and intensifying relationships between spaces. Parametric design allows architects to explore new possibilities and create limitless structures with no rational boundary whatsoever- it is achieved with the use of digital tools and fabrication technologies. Aesthetically, it is the elegance of orderly complexity and the sense of seamless fluidity that is the hallmark of Parametricism. …show more content…
It’s design which was created a year before the Berlin Wall came down, was based on three acumens: understanding contributions made to Berlin by its Jewish citizens by its Jewish citizens; the meaning of the Holocaust and, finally, for its future, the City of Berlin and the country of Germany must acknowledge the erasure of Jewish life in its history. Upon entering the Jewish Museum the visitor enters the Baroque Kollegienhaus and then descends by stairway through the dramatic Entry Void leading him straight into the underground. The descent leads him to three underground axial routes: the first leads to the Holocaust Tower, the second leads out of the building and into the Garden of Exile and Emigration, and the third traces a path leading to the Stair of Continuity. A Void cuts through the zigzagging plan of the building and creates a space that embodies absence. It is a straight line whose impenetrability becomes the central focus around which exhibitions are organized. In order to move from one side of the museum to the other, visitors must cross one of the 60 bridges that open onto this void. The Jewish museum not only houses exhibits they also provide visitors with their own unique experience as they walk through spaces forever changing the conventional and detached relationship between museum and