Memorial Bologna Shoah is a contemporary monument and a landmark in memory of the the tragic events of the Shoah, designed by SET architects.
The aim of the project is to give to Bologna a recognizable monument as a unique and a new reference for the historical center.
A landmark that will highlight the skyline of the city and allow people to evoke the memory of the past in the remembrance of those who have suffered horrible events.
This way, the structure of the wooden bunks in the concentration camps, where the bodies of prisoners were clumped together and their will to live was crushed by the feeling of the end, comes to life in an urban setting. It dramatically increases in size and projects into the space an infinite repetition of a module, appearing like a single cell of the dormitory.
Passers-by can experience the memorial by walking through the narrow and cold passage between the two equal and symmetrical elements. There, their thoughts become disoriented and merged with the memory of a mass extermination.
Text © SET architects | Photography © Simone Bossi
