BABIY YAR | THE INVERTED MONUMENT
The remembrance of the atrocities of September 1941 cannot be embodied within an imposed object — a monument. Instead, we propose the formation of an immersive space of remembrance, a space that emerges from the landscape and is carved from within a somber stone monolith — an inverted monument.
Instead of the reductive, singular, top-down imposition of form, this project explores the emergence of a collective spirit from a bottom-up process that creates a new space, rich with intricate detail, reflecting the culmination of individual differences within a collective continuity. The memorial is designed through the use of complex non-linear systems in which coherent order and spaces emerge from thousands of small decisions that interact at the local scale.
The space is at once intense and reflective, representing the void of Jewish culture lost to the holocaust and the formation of a new intricate complex future.

