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S. Gradel
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National Nuclear Armament Exhibit
Transforming the Special Ammunition Storage site ‘t Harde into an immersive experience chronicling the human stories of the Cold War
Student report
(2025)
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E.C. de Groot, E. Cok, M. Meertens, P. van Bokhoven, S. Gradel, S. Shen, Y. Chen, F.M. Rook, F. Daalderop, H. Jiang, H.J. Ibanez, J. Groothoff, J.S.M. van Bunningen, L. Peled, M.E. Boekholt, S.I. de Wit, M. Veras Morais, D. Tan
The Memories Inscribed in the Banal
Typological analysis of milestones in the villages ‘Mort pour la France’ of the battlefields of Verdun
The battlefields of Verdun contains within its forests, nine sites of memory known as the ‘destroyed villages’. During the fighting for these hills which began in February 1916, these nine villages were systematically destroyed. Today, after considerable efforts to preserve their memory in the aftermath of the First World War and the reconstruction period, the villages have been undergoing transformations once again. After reclamations works which originally begun in the 1990s and which continued into the 2000s, they were unequally adorned with markers and milestones that restore the pre-war typologies of the villages through in-situ material interventions. Through the works of Paola Filipucci, the villages have been inscribed into the resurgent academic landscape of post-war reconstruction, memorialization and memory studies, a field that had been dormant since the 1920s. This dissertation investigates the current moment of the destroyed villages, that are now on the verge of a new moment in their typological development. Through historical and typological analyses of these sites, the impetus has been laid out to propose a new design language for the building marker intervention found within the villages, one which would realize the full potential of their material’s capacity to create a new memory for the destroyed villages.
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The battlefields of Verdun contains within its forests, nine sites of memory known as the ‘destroyed villages’. During the fighting for these hills which began in February 1916, these nine villages were systematically destroyed. Today, after considerable efforts to preserve their memory in the aftermath of the First World War and the reconstruction period, the villages have been undergoing transformations once again. After reclamations works which originally begun in the 1990s and which continued into the 2000s, they were unequally adorned with markers and milestones that restore the pre-war typologies of the villages through in-situ material interventions. Through the works of Paola Filipucci, the villages have been inscribed into the resurgent academic landscape of post-war reconstruction, memorialization and memory studies, a field that had been dormant since the 1920s. This dissertation investigates the current moment of the destroyed villages, that are now on the verge of a new moment in their typological development. Through historical and typological analyses of these sites, the impetus has been laid out to propose a new design language for the building marker intervention found within the villages, one which would realize the full potential of their material’s capacity to create a new memory for the destroyed villages.