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SpirIal
Unfortunately the Changi Chapel Museum is only a pitstop for history hobbyists- which forces the museum management to open a bar beside it to keep operations financially viable. This can ruin the historical aura of an age that cannot be repeated again in Singapore's history.
In creating a memorial to commemorate the remembrance of Singapore's unsung war heros, visitors are given the chance to reconnect back to a dark age in Singapore's history.
The surface of the memorial resembles a small portion of a park within the museum grounds. Mounts enable visitors to rest or spend time in solitude with a nearby reflective pool of water.
Light spills out from the lightwell that is covered by a reflective pool above. On the slanted wall reveals the names of fallen soldiers that is supposed to be covered with a luminated layer of water ripples. In the depths underground where hope is far gone, it is only these brave souls that carved the way up to rise above the waters of tribulation. For the freedom we enjoy currently is a ransom for the livelihood of these brave men and women.
Attracted by blurry sights of depictions beneath the reflective pool, users circulate the sunken path to transcend down stairs- to find out the walls coverges on them and step risers of great height plunging deep underground. With spike-like panels to invoke fear, their arrangement blocks off excess light from the surface- leaving sufficient only for circulation while creating a dark space.
As a result, a slow but gradual road to recovery takes place as the tectonics of the architecture begin to explode by a penetration of light rays into the depths. Just like some of these men who were bound as Prisoners of War and did not see sunlight for years, now can there be liberation as the architectonic of war and hopelessness can resist no more.
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