Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial

1. The Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial is located at 777 South 8th Street Boise, ID 83702 located next to the LIBRARY! and the green belt. I has a park like setting with different sections dedicated to different Human right topic. It was all created of stone and marble walls. it contained a water feature. there was a specific layout and path that the creator wanted you to follow from left to right instead of left to right. it has speaker boxes providing an explanation of each section in English and Spanish.
                                                                                                               2. The representation of this memorial are very well done. The have a speaker box in more than one language to appeal to more people. It is black writing carved on cream slabs of marble. It has a specific route that is layed out to follow instead of reading from right to left it is set up left to right and takes you around to whole memorial. 
 
3. The visual elements and principles that dominate the whole thing are the marble slabs with quotes from various different. As well the other major thing that stands out is the water fall in the middle of the whole memorial.

4. This memorial doesn't seem site specific other then there is alot of traffic that goes thru there every day located next to the Library! and the greenbelt. 

5. This memorial was created by Idaho human rights education center. Designed by Kurt Karst, a architect from Idaho Falls. and funded by the donations from the people of Idaho. the main piece which is the life-sized statue of Anne Frank was created by Greg Stone from Massachusetts, who won the national competition to build and create it. It was built with help of Idaho school children raising  funds to build the bronze-cast sculpture.

6. A variety of material was used to create this wonderful relaxing memorial such as marble,rocks,bronze bricks,grass, voice boxes, and water.

7. The text functions well. It is well represented on a lite colored surface with black text.
    8. Very successful. its a great location and also great use of material and display.

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