{"id":1496,"date":"2014-01-18T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/los-angeles-museum-of-the-holocaust-belzberg-architects\/"},"modified":"2014-01-18T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T11:23:17","slug":"los-angeles-museum-of-the-holocaust-belzberg-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/los-angeles-museum-of-the-holocaust-belzberg-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust \/ Belzberg Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Architects: Belzberg Architects<\/a><\/strong>
\nLocation: 100 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA, USA<\/strong>
\nArchitect In Charge: Hagy Belzberg<\/strong>
\nDesign Team: Andrew Atwood, Barry Gartin, Brock DeSmit, Carina Bien-Wilner , Christopher Arntzen, Cory Taylor, Daniel Rentsch, David Cheung, Eric Stimmel, Erik Sollom, Justin Brechtel, Philip Lee, Lauren Zuzack<\/strong>
\nArea: 27,000 sqm<\/strong>
\nYear: 2010<\/strong>
\nPhotographs: Iwan Baan<\/a>, Benny Chan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Project Manager: Aaron Leppanen<\/strong>
\nStructural: William Koh & Associates<\/strong>
\nContractor: Winters-Schram<\/strong>
\nMechanical: John Dorius & Associates<\/strong>
\nElectrical: A&F Consulting Engineers<\/strong>
\nMethane Engineer: Carlin Environmental<\/strong>
\nEnvironmental Engineer: Enviropro, Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the architect.<\/em> The new building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) is located within a public park, adjacent to the existing Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial.\u00a0 Paramount to the design strategy is the integration of the building into the surrounding open, park landscape. The museum is submerged into the ground allowing the park\u2019s landscape to continue over the roof of the structure.\u00a0 Existing park pathways are used as connective elements to integrate the pedestrian flow of the park with the new circulation for museum visitors.<\/p>\n

The pathways are morphed onto the building and appropriated as surface patterning.\u00a0 The patterning continues above the museum\u2019s galleries, further connecting the park\u2019s landscape and pedestrian paths. By maintaining the material pallet of the park and extending it onto the museum, the hues and textures of concrete and vegetation blend with the existing material palette of Pan Pacific Park.\u00a0 These simple moves create a distinctive fa\u00e7ade for the museum while maintaining the parks topography and landscape.\u00a0 The museum emerges from the landscape as a single, curving concrete wall that splits and carves into the ground to form the entry. \u00a0Designed and constructed with sustainable systems and materials, the LAMOTH building is on track to receive a LEED Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council.<\/p>\n

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Patrons begin their procession at the drop off adjacent to the park.\u00a0 Their approach is pervaded by sounds and sights of laughter and sport\u2014of kids playing in the park and picnicking with their families.\u00a0 Because the building is partially submerged beneath the grassy, park landscape, entry to the building entails a gradual deterioration of this visual and auditory connection to the park while descending a long ramp.\u00a0 Upon entering, visitors experience the culmination of their transition from a playful and unrestrained, public park atmosphere to a series of isolated spaces saturated with photographic archival imagery.<\/p>\n

As part of the design strategy, this dichotomous relationship between building content and landscape context is emphasized to bolster the experience inside the museum and allegorically correlate the proximity with which European forest revelers enjoying public parks were to sites of horrific and inhumane acts being carried out in 1930\u2019s and 40\u2019s.\u00a0 Visitors exit the museum by ascending up to the level of the existing monument, regaining the visual and auditory connection with the park environs.<\/p>\n

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The first room incorporates a large, single interactive table, mimicking a conceptual \u201ccommunity\u201d or dinner table. The exhibit brings a large group of patrons together around one interactive exhibit.\u00a0 The lighting of the interior galleries dim as the visitor steps down into the subsequent rooms where two separate exhibits display divide the singular crowd\u2014diminishing the \u201ccommunity\u201d provided by people nearby.\u00a0 Through the third room and into the fourth, the floor continues to step down as ambient lighting becomes scarcer leading individuals to the room titled, \u201cConcentration Camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ceiling is low, and the room is almost entirely illuminated by individual video<\/a>-monitors\u2014about the size of a notebook\u2014which limits viewing to a single spectator.\u00a0 The visitor is now confined to the most isolated, darkest and volumetrically concentrated underground area in the museum.\u00a0 The journey from this point forward is one of ascension and of finding the comfort of familiar space as floor levels begin to rise and natural lights begins to penetrate the interior once again.\u00a0 The final ascent up to the existing monument is filled with sights and sounds of unrestricted park land.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust \/ Belzberg Architects<\/a> originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website<\/a><\/b> on 18 Jan 2014.<\/p>\n

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Architects: Belzberg Architects Location: 100 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA, USA Architect In Charge: Hagy Belzberg Design Team: Andrew Atwood, Barry Gartin, Brock DeSmit, Carina Bien-Wilner , Christopher Arntzen, Cory Taylor, Daniel Rentsch, David Cheung, Eric Stimmel, Erik Sollom, Justin Brechtel, Philip Lee, Lauren Zuzack Area: 27,000 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: Iwan Baan, Benny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[419,111,1858,1857,1131],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-models","category-uncategorized","tag-angeles","tag-architects","tag-belzberg","tag-holocaust","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}