Endrit Sadiku

advisor

University for Business and Technology - UBT

Kosovar

Endrit Sadiku is an architect, urbanist, and researcher specializing in urban resilience,… more

Dear team,

This is a moving and precise project. Your decision to focus on life rather than loss to design with light as a symbol of survival rather than death is a powerful conceptual shift. It reframes the memory of the Holocaust through the lens of resilience, and that choice is both respectful and spatially generative.

The project navigates a difficult context with clarity. The integration between new elements and the industrial heritage is handled with a light touch. The transparent and white structural components set a clear distinction from the original masonry, while still working in dialogue with it. The light field and reflecting pool introduce a ceremonial quality without theatricality. The result feels grounded.

Architecturally, the proposal is consistent. The material strategy is coherent across the different scales of intervention. The use of wood, vegetation, and greenhouse structures in the housing and productive landscapes shows a careful layering of domesticity, labor, and remembrance.

Some aspects could be developed further. The large open plaza reads well in images, but its climatic and acoustic conditions might deserve more attention. Also, the transition between the memorial walk and the museum interior could benefit from more spatial tension or pause. How is that moment marked in the body?

Overall, this is a thoughtful and dignified work. You approached memory not with monumentality but with light, community, and continuity. That takes architectural discipline and care. This is important work and it shows.

Congratulations on choosing such a meaningful and challenging theme, and addressing it with clarity, depth, and maturity. This is not just a strong academic proposal it is a thoughtful and timely architectural response, and you have carried it with real care and skill.