MEMORIAL CENTER

Abstract

Time, space, and emotions are the abstract components of human lives which are endured and experienced in varied ways by individual or collective groups of individuals. When certain events occur in the human timeline, in which humanity stoops down to its lowest, such moments are frozen in time. The emotional whirl felt by humans are imprinted in lives. The act of recalling those time, event and lives is remembrance. The selective mechanism that exists between memories and forgetfulness, is natural. Architecture of Memories; Memorial is created to give physical existence to people and their stories to keep them alive even when they are absent. About 25 years ago, Nepal, an emblem of peace, underwent a brutal internal conflict, leaving one of the many scars in Nepalese history. This project is an attempt to bring those flashes in terms of Memorial Architecture. This report consists of the ways how such architecture is created, their components and emotions generated through them. This study employs a case study approach to analyze Memorial architecture projects from all round the world that express sorrow and remembrance of war and loss, Mass shooting and violent conflict.