URBAN TRAJECTORIES
:: lee-anne katz
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The project relocates the existing Sydney Jewish Museum to the Sydney CBD, positioning the museum’s historic content and story within the everyday experience of the city web.
Individual movement leaves a single thread, a cognitive map, in the collective city web. The architectural design of this project responds to such threads and other remnant traces, which map time and record history in the city. Each tube of the new Museum and Community Centre for Jewish History and Culture is oriented along threads of time and history, evolved from the process of mapping. The museum is in dialogue with the city’s buildings and places of historic significance, revealing a collective memory and history ingrained in the layers and cracks of the wider city site. The public pedestrian paths of the city thread through the centre of the museum, continuing the pedestrian link from the Town Hall and Queen Victoria Building to Hyde Park. Above the museum, bridges traverse the void space, and collective and individual experiences interact along the museum’s central spine.
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