THE HOUSE Of GRIEF
Qualifications
INTRODUCTIOn
On October 30th, 2015, a terrible tragedy happened in Bucharest, Romania. It was Friday evening and in the Club “Colectiv” gathered around 400 people, where there was a fire and in the tragedy, 64 people lost their lives, and many were severely hurt.
Six teaching architects from UAUIM (the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu”) died. So the competition is about to design THe HOUSe Of PAIn.
THe HOUSe Of GRIEf. It is about to design a memorial place for the people who lost their lives in the event.
The location of Club “Colectiv” and its surrounding and applying first ideas about using an empty area behind the place as a memorial park and view to the proposed empty space near Club “Colectiv” for the memorial while the club indicates in red.
Plan of the designed area which all the roads and access identified as black and the red road represent the memorial of the people who died in the fire accident.
OBJECTIVe + SOLUTIOn
The design can stand like a memorial, like an Architectural Requiem, to pay homage to those who are not, any longer, our colleagues, who, at the mercy of a malevolent Fate, vanished beyond the threshold.
What threshold…? The threshold that separates Life and Death, the threshold between the “here and now” and “there and then…”
Design in order to alleviate the pain.
view to the proposed empty space near Club “Colectiv” for the memorial while the club indicate in red
Image of the actual memorial spot for the people who lost their lives in the fire.
The grief house designed to be an open space, the roof is the sky and the ground is covered by the only river in The human body, the blood. Each column represents each victim of the tragic event and black and white are the two only colors that tell the story of pain. The height of the 30 by 30-centimeter columns are 6 meter and the proportions are designed so it could create a space inside the actual space of the area. The square in which columns are installed is 25 by 25 meter and it is located inside the circular water pool underneath the memorial ground.