Babyn Yar - Memorial Area in Kiev

ウクライナの複雑な歴史を象徴する渓谷「バビ・ヤール」に、メモリアルをデザインするコンペ。UIA公認。

Description
Babyn Yar is a complex historical symbol. It became a part of world history in the context of two days in the fall of 1941, when Nazi executioners shot almost 34 000 Kyivan Jews at the Babyn Yar site. Thus, the territory became a world-renowned symbol of the Holocaust. But the real story of Babyn Yar does not end there. Throughout the following two years of German occupation, this site was used as a place of execution and burial of everyone who could be considered an enemy of the Nazis. Subsequently, the Soviet regime tried for decades to destroy the ravine (Yar) itself as well as the memory of its victims. Finally, after Ukraine became independent in 1991, Babyn Yar became symbolic of the fraught Ukrainian society which was unable to unite even in the face of a tragedy. It is this discrepancy between the world's and the Jewry's view of Babyn Yar as exclusively a symbol of the Holocaust, on the one hand, and all the ways in which this site is deeply tied to the general history of Kyiv and Ukraine, on the other, that forms the principal problem that is to be solved while creating a comprehensive memory site--the "Babyn Yar--Dorohozhychy Necropolis" memorial park.
The chief challenge that the organizers (and thus also the future entrants of the competition) are facing is the need to achieve an organic unity of all the aspects of history, whereby the Holocaust would be transformed from a unique occurrence into a symbol of all tragedies of the previous century while the mass shooting of Kyiv's Jews would become a core event of the entire history of Babyn Yar.

Jury
Barbara Aronson, Israel, urban and town planner, landscape architect
Marti Franch Batllori, Spain, landscape architect
Heorhiy Dukhovychnyi, Ukraine, architect
Dr. Markus Jatsch, United Kingdom, architect
Mykhaylo Hershenzon, Ukraine, architect
Jörg Michel, Germany, landscape architect, landscape gardener
Jimmy Norrman, Sweden, landscape architect, architect
Olivier Philippe, France, landscape architect / UIA representative
Serhiy Tselovalnyk, Ukraine, chief Architect of Kyiv (2010-2015)

Prize
1st prize: 17,000 USD
2nd prize: 12,000 USD
3rd prize: 7,000 USD
4 runner-up prizes: 3,000 USD each

Entry Fee
US $35

Entries
Two presentation boards (2378* 841 mm)
An explanatory report
No less than eight (8) perspective images
A video clip using a 3D model

Timetable
Announcement of the results and competition winners: Jun. 09, 2016
Deadline for submission of exhibition materials: Jul. 12, 2016
Opening of the exhibition "Babyn Yar: The Memory Against the Historical Background": Sep. 15, 2016
​Awards ceremony and presentation of the winning projects: Sep. 28, 2016

Organizer
"Babyn Yar" Public Committee

Official Website