name: The last nuclear bomb memorial. year:2021. client: Bee breeders. situation: shortlisted project

Time: 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Place: Giordano del Muerto Desert, 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. Code name: Trinity Test

The codename Trinity was inspired by a poem of the same name by John Donne. This test, which is known as the world’s first successful nuclear test, was related to a plutonium device with an explosive design, and the success of this test led to the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. A bombing that killed more than 10,000,000 civilians in the first moment and nearly 12,000,000 people due to the destructive effects of radioactive radiation. Radiation that still has destructive effects.

Today, there are about 9,000 nuclear weapons in the world, of which 1,800 can be used immediately, and this is enough to destroy the entire planet in a few minutes. For this purpose, this competition has been held to criticize the silence of international organizations in relation to nuclear weapons and asks designers to design the world’s last nuclear bomb without slogans or words and only with the help of images and creating space to remember the world’s last nuclear bomb. to create world peace.

Everything ends where it started
Graphite protects the chain reaction and using it, the first nuclear reactor was built, which was the starting point for making the atomic bomb.

Now I am death, destroyer of worlds
Never in hell or earth has mankind experienced this. All in blood and fire. Violence is ultimately itself and evil overcomes the world in the absence of harmony and peace.

The design strategy is the scars on the heart of nature, which are the remnants of the effects of atomic bombs on the earth. These wounds are reminders and are related to the collective memory of people.

Geography plays a fundamental role in people’s approach to peace. Therefore, different paths have been designed through which people will enter the empty space at different levels and have different experiences.

The visitor goes in depth to discover the truth, from one space to another and in the heart of these signs, which are all pieces of the memory of history and possible futures, he will see that the change of global approach is in his own hands. He will learn that only this chain of fear will be broken by them.

in search of water
The common experience of all atomic war survivors in the moments after an atomic attack is that they look for water. The water level on the project with an empty hole in it reveals a space full of doubt. Deep doubt about the sustainability of peace in the world.

A hole in the heart of the earth invites us to ourselves and to think. In the heart of the time hole, its meaning has changed. Heterogeneous pieces of time from the future, past and in between. Interwoven spaces that have intersected at some points.