Sanatorium of memory : memorial for Jewish community in Otwock 

master thesis | June 2020
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen

The project called Sanatorium of memory – memorial for Jewish Community in Otwock explores the link between architecture and memory. It is a set of architectural interventions, surrounding the ruins of the previous sanatorium for mentaly ill Jews. The project aims to rehabilitate the absent memory of the exterminated community. It seeks inspiration in vernacular architecture of the city as well as broad architectural tradition of Polish heritage. The project focuses on exploration of varied  ways of preservation, of both architectural tissue as well as memory of the past : collective and personal. 

I based it on rituals and materiality connected with processes of healing, as a medium that due to the strict connection with body and atmospheres, might enable users to create new memories of the place. All installations follow the same criteria: they are made out of local materials, aim to create a multi sensual atmosphere, provoke movement or reflection upon known spaces. Taking into advantage that the architectural project is not a static object, but a choreography of changes in time, I focused on the processes bound with creation of the structures as well as their  preservation and their performance in the future.