Gaza Under Attack Museum

The idea lies in dividing the stages of the war into parts (beginning – during – the end of the war), we reflect them in different parts of the project, when the visitor passes through each of them, his brain will work to synthesize the events together to understand the story narration Totally, this is what Gestalt theorem states. The project will be almost entirely underground. The house in the campground (the entrance to the museum is inside the campground) is connected to the museum site on the opposite side down the main street by a long tunnel. When cars pass on the main street that has been modified to support the idea of the project (roughening it and burying iron under it) so that the vibrations of the movement of cars are transmitted and amplified by the iron sheet on the surface of the tunnel below the street to be similar to the sounds of missiles and explosions at the beginning of wars. The house will remain as it is as a kind of camouflage for visitors, its interior design will be similar to an ordinary house. The tunnel at its end is connected to the huge dispenser that contains other elements that symbolize the forms of suffering, and to complete the rest of the story of the voids derived from the effects of rockets in the land of Gaza and still is. Exist to this day. The huge dispenser overlooks the besieged garden that the visitor cannot reach from inside the museum, like the large prison that characterizes Gaza, to feel cramped. Rest of the public functions that serve the museum, such as the amphitheater, library, administration, temporary exhibitions (every 6 months new topics are presented related to the suffering of Gaza), and workshops. The thorny plants were at the beginning of the project, given that the beginning narrates the beginning of the suffering. The thorny plants have an important symbolism by expressing the strength of endurance and steadfastness despite the harsh weather sewn. As for the aromatic plants, they were at the end of the path, because they had the smell of beautiful, similar to the smell of innocent souls who fell victim to wars. As for the poppies, the visitor will plant them in the ground at the end of the tour, choosing the poppy plant because of its symbolism since the First World War when the poppies grew in the places of the dead, as it reminds us of the color of the martyrs’ blood. Olive trees were planted in the spaces of the maze as a symbol of steadfastness.Maze, which expresses new stages in the midst of the war, in which the visitor feels lost from his family, fear, scattering, displacement, and an attempt to cross the place quickly to get rid of the chaos of feelings. Moving to Mansoura Street, which is a good example of expressing the number of people under the rubble . We conclude the stages of the war with the cemetery figures, who are the martyrs whose bodies were seized by the Israeli occupation, which consist of pictures of these martyrs hanging between heaven and earth because their souls are still suspended because they were not buried and honored as they should, in addition, aromatic trees have been planted outside the tunnel, which the visitor smells from inside, expressing the beautiful scent of the martyrs. The idea of the shape of the area of the cemetery of semi-pyramidal numbers by looking at the sky to which the soul ascends to be their Spiritual connection with Heaven. Virtual Reality connects us to the destroyed places in Gaza so that the visitor becomes as if he were one of its members, and the goal is for the world to see the hope of life for the people of Gaza despite all the tragedies they are going through. In the end, Martyrs’ Garden, in which the visitor is planted with fake poppies to express respect for all the martyrs in Gaza, and then the visitor moves to the barren site, which expresses the cruelty of the scenes punctuated by a few remaining parts of the wars.-