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To understand the influences and processes that had an impact on the design for the Jewish Museum, in order to better understand the forms and spaces it incorporates.
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To investigate whether the Jewish Museum successfully provokes human emotion through the design of architecture and space, in comparison to the content that is exhibited within the museum.
RESEARCH AIMS
RESEARCH
OBJECTIVES
RESEARCH
METHOD
SECONDARY RESEARCH:
Secondary research will be gathered from sources such as books, websites, newspaper articles, journals and online broadcasts. These will enable qualitative data to be collected and analysed.
PRIMARY RESEARCH, QUESTIONNAIRES:
Primary research will be achieved through two forms of questionnaires, these will allow both qualitative data and quantities data to be formed in order to support findings from secondary research. Questionnaires prompting qualitative data allows participants to provide their personal opinions, which in turn enables further analysis. The first set of data was collected via Survey Monkey, obtaining results from respondents who had previously visited the Jewish Museum. The second set of data was obtained in the Jewish Museum from respondents who had just completed their visit.
PRIMARY RESEARCH, CASE STUDIES:
Case studies undertaken at the Jewish Museum and at the Academy of the Jewish Museum will provide first-hand experience of the environments and will allow analysis and conclusions to be formed.
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To explore the Deconstructivist movement and how this may have influenced Daniel Libeskinds design of forms, spaces and materials.
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To research the main design process undertaken by Libeskind, to discover links that provide supporting and contradicting evidence as to whether the architecture successfully represents the subject matter it accommodates.
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To explore concepts and opinions on environmental psychology and emotive design.
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To examine critics, advocates and users opinions on applying architecture as a tool for representing the subject, in comparison to relevance and importance of the incorporation of museum content.
SCOPE &
LIMITATIONS
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Extensive research into facts and figures of the Holocaust will not be explored in this research project, it will however focus on the way visitors have perceived the experience of the museum - this in turn will provide mainly subjective research.
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This research project will explore the connection between modern architecture and the content it houses through links to environmental psychology and human emotion, however, it will not explore associated theories such a phenomenology and memory in detail.
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Only a select amount of participants can be targeted to complete the questionnaire, which could lead to mispresented results. It should also be noted that due to the context and location of the museum, a language barrier may hinder some participants from fully understanding or expressing their views.