1. Yad Vashem Holcaust Museum
BBSC Assignment 1a
May Paul Muir

2. Yad Vashem Holcaust Museum
BBSC Assignment 1a
Yad Vashem Holcaust Museum
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum was designed to give the visitor an experience of travel through the time of the holocaust, and what it was like as one of the targets of the Nazi “final solution”.
The museum is tall and long, punctured only by a single light far above, giving a sense of entrapment or confinement, as one may have experienced in the Warsaw ghettos. Though you can see to the end of the main gallery from the entry, you cannot walk directly down it, your way is obstructed by a series of voids that force you to move into the side galleries in order to skirt them, thus forcing you to follow the narrative of the museum.
The final circular gallery is a room that houses testimonies from those who survived the holocaust and those others with memories from it, enough to hold 6 million volumes in all, and serve as a memorial to those who did not survive the horrors of Hitler’s rein.
Finally you are presented to the viewing platform that allows views across Jerusalem below and the prosperity of Israel's people.
This is a building in which the quality of the daylight in the spaces is used to set the mood of the exhibits that the gallery contains
May Paul Muir

3. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Visitors Entry Pavilion

4. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Visitors Entry Pavilion

5. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Holocaust Museum Entry

6. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Main Gallery

7. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Second Smaller Gallery

8. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Second Smaller Gallery

9. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Fourth Smaller Gallery

10. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Hall of Names Entry

11. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Hall of Names

12. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Hall of Names Section
Here we can see that the cone sections at the top of the gallery allow only a specific amount of lighting to the space. Diffuse light is now provided by the centre cone to the bookshelves around it. The contrast of light and dark here is intentional as a symbol of the light at the end of the tunnel.

13. Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
3d Model