KATIE CARTER ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Location|Genoa, Italy

Program|War and Peace Museum

In Collaboration with Maddy Orick, Elppa Zhou, and Chase Freeman

 

Peace can be a continuous circuit, however it is usually fractured by conflicts that result in war. The "fractures" are exposed while the war remains only a memory. The evidence of war is still present but no longer tangible, peace can develop again but the scars will always remain.

 

Our War and Peace Museum begins with a public memorial directing the occupants’ view toward the sea, where most of Genoa’s battles were fought. The museum is a focus on particular events that helped shape the city of Genoa. The overall design is a visually dynamic play between the peace and the war galleries. The peace galleries form a circular plan but the continuity is disrupted by the war galleries. War becomes separate from peace and cannot be occupied, only viewed.