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Drosmes Māja2020
During the Nazi occupation of Latvia, fisherman Zanis Lipke hid Jewish families in
an underground shelter beneath his shed. The existing, small and dark museum
pavilion documents his heroic but covert work; this competition called for a new
education center to bring light to the cultural pluralism that has sprouted from the
ashes of this historical horror. Crucially, the proposal was to fit within a diminutive
neighborhood vernacular, with UNESCO World Heritage Site status. Our proposal
thus elevates educational spaces in a bright metal volume, cantilevering it from a darker, massive concrete spine. Daylight filters unobtrusively from above,
conceptually lifting the continuous ground plane towards the sky.