Memoryscape by MBAC

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MBAC : 军事团体与埃德蒙顿市有着密切的联系，这个项目的设计是关于“纪念的联系”，埃德蒙顿市和埃德蒙顿艺术理事会提出需要找到一种挑战典型的战争纪念碑设计手法的方案，所以这是一个充满活力的能够动态捕捉现代军队所有声音的作品。

MBAC : The military community has a long-standing presence in – and connection with – the City of Edmonton. The design challenge for this project – the commemoration of this connection – as set out by the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Arts Council, required an approach that challenged the typical retrospective war memorial; a robust, celebratory piece capable of dynamically capturing all the voices of the modern military.

这一项目是民间和军队生活之间的过渡，同时宣扬了社会力量，尽管士兵们不在家人身边，但来自亲人的支持便是最好的陪伴。

从构图上看，设计包括一系列的折叠铝图腾元素，这些元素描述了贯穿场地的多种路径现场的多个路径。水射流切入这些图腾，描绘了和平、援助、社区和归乡主题的图像聚合了断裂的场景。游客们通过将自己的经历和联想连接在一起，重新组合场景。当人们在场地内的活动被激活时，记忆随着视觉联系的建立、释放和反映而被唤起。

The response is a project that actively acknowledges the joyous and challenging transition between civilian and military life, while simultaneously serving as a tribute the power of community; despite a physical absence, support from loved ones ensures our soldiers are always home.

Compositionally, the project comprises a series of folded aluminum totemic elements that describe a multiplicity of paths through the site. Water jet cut into these totems, imagery that speaks to themes of peacekeeping, aid, community, and homecoming creates an aggregation of fractured scenes. Visitors are challenged to seek out and re-assemble the scenes, to be stitched together through their own experiences and associations. Activated by one’s movement through the site, memories come in and out of focus as visual connections are established, released, and reflected.