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    Case Study: Hiroshima Peace Memorial

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    This memorial park in Hiroshima, Japan was designed by architect Kenzo Tange following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Tange used an east-west and north-south axis to organize the space, with the Atomic Bomb Dome at the center point. He designed the Cenotaph as a parabolic sculpture to honor the bombing victims. The complex includes a museum, auditorium, and open plaza designed to educate visitors and serve as a symbol of peace.

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    This memorial park in Hiroshima, Japan was designed by architect Kenzo Tange following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Tange used an east-west and north-south axis to organize the space, with the Atomic Bomb Dome at the center point. He designed the Cenotaph as a parabolic sculpture to honor the bombing victims. The complex includes a museum, auditorium, and open plaza designed to educate visitors and serve as a symbol of peace.

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    This memorial park in Hiroshima, Japan was designed by architect Kenzo Tange following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Tange used an east-west and north-south axis to organize the space, with the Atomic Bomb Dome at the center point. He designed the Cenotaph as a parabolic sculpture to honor the bombing victims. The complex includes a museum, auditorium, and open plaza designed to educate visitors and serve as a symbol of peace.

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    This memorial park in Hiroshima, Japan was designed by architect Kenzo Tange following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Tange used an east-west and north-south axis to organize the space, with the Atomic Bomb Dome at the center point. He designed the Cenotaph as a parabolic sculpture to honor the bombing victims. The complex includes a museum, auditorium, and open plaza designed to educate visitors and serve as a symbol of peace.

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    The Hiroshima Peace Memorial was designed by architect Kenzo Tange to memorialize the victims of the atomic bombing and serve as a symbol of peace. Tange envisioned the memorial as a 'basis for peace activities' in Hiroshima.

    Tange envisioned the memorial as a 'basis for peace activities' in Hiroshima. He used an east-west and north-south axis based on the city's geography to create a dynamic quality for reconstruction.

    Tange conceptualized the design with the Atomic Bomb Dome at the center of a north-south axis and boulevards along an east-west axis. The Cenotaph takes the form of a hyperbolic parabola to represent both ancient tombs and modern architecture.

    CASE STUDY: HIROSHIMA PEACE

    MEMORIAL
    PROJECT DETAILS
    ■ LOCATION - Hiroshima, Japan
    ■ CATEGORY - Memorial, Park and Museum
    ■ ARCHITECT – Ar. Kenzo Tange
    ■ PROJECT YEAR – 1955
    ■ AREA - Approx. 1,20,000 sq.m
    ■ ABOUT –
    This project stems from the Second World War, particularly after the dropping of the atomic
    bomb United States of Hiroshima, Japan. After the bombing the government proposed a
    plan to rebuild the devastated area. A contest and architect team convened Kenzo Tange as
    the architect.
    CONCEPT
    ■ This was the first major project that was commissioned
    to Kenzo Tange. A year after the attack, Tange and his
    assistants visited the scene. They met with such
    devastation decided that the place needed a symbolic
    vision for reconstruction.
    ■ The geography of Hiroshima is defined by the Chugoku
    mountains, running east to west, and Otagawa River, which
    runs north to south. Based on this provision, Tange used
    the idea of axis, east-west and north-south, with the
    people of the city was accustomed, to create a dynamic
    quality to the city. The east-west axis hosted the boulevard
    de la Paz, the heart to the activities of citizens. In the
    north-south axis started the Atomic Bomb Dome, the
    cenotaph for the victims of the bomb and the Peace
    Memorial Museum. Thus, the A-Bomb Dome was used as a
    symbol of the disaster and also as standard for
    reconstruction. In some letters of the time the project
    between architect and administration, he described his
    idea of the park as “a basis for peace activities.”
    THE CENOTAPH

    ■ The parabolic
    shaped sculpture in
    the garden
    resembles a saddle,
    evoking the way of
    the Haniwa, the
    habitual tombs of
    former rulers of
    Japan.
    SPACES
    ■ “The building stands on pillars, its structure is a concrete frame. The entire complex has a
    monumental quality. There are two outbuildings, one on each side, consisting of a hall, a hotel,
    exhibition gallery, a library, offices and a conference center in the west; and an auditorium with
    capacity for 2,500 people in eastern… Together they form a kind of screen to the Plaza de la Paz,
    which extends north, where up to 50,000 people may gather around the Peace Monument. The
    monument… in the form of a hyperbolic parabola, meeting modern trends and technology with
    the ancient form of the Haniwa, traditional tombs of the rulers of Japan. ” – Kenzo Tange in Udo
    Kultermann, Kenzo Tange : Works and Projects.
    ■ The museum certainly shows the influence of modern architecture Le Corbusier, so the use of
    reinforced concrete for the use of stilts. As Tange loved what Le Corbusier represented, and
    thought that this great architecture in relation to the social and human scale was
    what Japan needed and what is needed to bring.
    ■ Inside of the museum is specially designed to transport visitors to the drama experienced by the
    city with the atomic bomb. Through technical data and testimonies shown theatrically, the
    moment of the catastrophe is evoked.
    ■ The buildings flanking the museum, library and conference center, were joined by bridges to the
    museum in 1995.

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