The Momument, Testimony & Memory

After i read through the article, i can say that the Jewish Museum Berlin by Daniel Libeskind is successful in commemorating the dead. Daniel Libeskind has use 2 different kind f line which is including a straight line, but broken into many fragment, and the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely"The design is based on a rather involved process of connecting lines between locations of historic events and locations of Jewish culture in Berlin. These lines form a basic outline and structure for the building. Libeskind also has used the concepts of absence, emptiness, and the invisible—expressions of the disappearance of Jewish culture in the city—to design the building. This concept takes form in a kinked and angled sequence through the building, orchestrated to allow the visitor to see (but not to enter) certain empty rooms, which Libeskind terms ‘voided voids.’ The ideas which generate the plan of the building repeat themselves on the surface of the building, where voids, windows, and perforations form a sort of cosmological composition on an otherwise undifferentiated, zig-zagging zinc surface." (quote from http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/jewishmuseum/).

He use this kind of line as his design concept into the museum to present or mirror the history between the Jew and German in the past. The museum itself has been designed in such way where visitor are not just getting know about the history/the dead physically but also spiritually when their experience inside the museum.Daniel Libeskind has divided the interior space of the museum into separate space such as the Void which all connected by the 3 underground 'roads' which representing 3 separate stories.This will maximize the feeling of the visitors.

Else, the National Museum in Malaysia has been designed and built more look like cultural-influenced design where the architect have put the local culture elements into the building interior and exterior. With this, i can say that, although the National Museum have the same intention and usage like the Jewish Museum in Berlin, but the design of the building is less spiritual and psychological effect on the visitors.