brooks + scarpa

tier 3

florida holocaust memorial

type: memorial site: tallahassee, florida involvement phase: construction documents

+ digital fabrication design using oolite hung on structural steel frame with bronze waterjet interior panels. + competition of artists around the world, Brooks + Scarpa’s design was selected for its originality and sensitive approach.

project description: A portal where visitors can enter and pass between the stone wall of the memorial, visitors encounter a bronze clad interior divided into 22 panels representing the 22 countries in which Jewish communities were dissemated. It is intended that the bronze panels be etched with random numbers symbolizing registration numbers. Each tiny set of numbers cut thru the bronze panels would represent the 6 million people murdered in the camps, and the numbers would cover the entire surface of the panels so visitors can see the magnitude of the loss of life.