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![Map of Carinhall in Berlin](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%234.png?itok=Rc62IhKx)
Abigail Zola
Uncovering Emotional Contamination: Five Sites of Trauma in Berlin
“Emotional contamination,” describes residual feelings associated with a space where a negative or tragic event occurred to an individual or group either personally, historically, or politically. Emotional contamination affects people’s associations with place and informs their willingness to spend time in them. This project establishes a set of design principles rooted in uncovering and acknowledging the lifespan of a site, and considering how this acknowledgment can exist as an urban system rather than an individual architectural artifact. My thesis work analyzes five case studies in Berlin where political and economic factors determined the result of intervention, and how these sites can redefine our understanding of site-specific architecture as it relates to emotional contamination and memorialization.
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![Map of The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%231png.png?itok=hGz5H18x)
Memorialization
Rhino, Illustrator
18x18
2023
Image
![Map of The East Side Gallery in Berlin](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%232.png?itok=mYFZFjCv)
Preservation
Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
18x18
2023
Image
![Map of The Reichstag in Berlin](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%233.png?itok=KKX9lSxU)
Rebuild
Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
18x18
2023
Image
![Map of Carinhall in Berlin](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%234.png?itok=Rc62IhKx)
Demolition
Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
18x18
2023
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![Map of The Olympic Stadium in Berlin](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%235.png?itok=0_4bR3cT)
Reuse
Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
18x18
2023
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![Tiled Collage of case study screen prints](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%236.png?itok=Lfza0zC6)
Case Study Prints
Screen Printed
2023
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![Etching of Norman Foster's Reichstag Dome overlayed over a screen print of the Reichstag Fire](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%237.png?itok=3NZJroaM)
Reichstag Etching
Glass Etching over Screen Print
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![Screen prints of scenes from Kristallnacht](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/ARCH_AbigailZola_File%238.png?itok=exTRDEXC)
Kristallnacht Prints
Screen Printed
2023