June 23 - June 24

June 23 was a day on the Bus. We traveled from Stuttgart back to Berlin ( about a 10 hour bus ride). But no means did we just sit on the bus we had many stops all in the town of Wolfsburg. One of the three stops we made was to the Phaeno Museum. Which to most of use was a flash back to our childhood because this building's interior was a child science center.Even though we were there see the architecture we had some fun while we were there too. This building was a concrete building designed by Zaha Hadid. This building was one of a kind for sure. Every lrg to this structure was one of a kind and that also means that all the form work was also one of a kind. Since this building is made solely out of concrete one would think it would have expansion joints right. Well you would be wrong this building had non.

Phaeno Museum

Also along our stop was a Library done by Aalto and also the Heiling-Greist kiche (a church). The church had a really interesting way of doing a corner on a brink building (shown below) and the chapel had this really interesting ribbon like form running on the ceiling.


June 24th was mostly a history driven day with our class starting at the Topographies of Terror exhibit a few blocks from our apartments. Our afternoon began with a very infomative lecture by Dr. Etheridge. Manly talked about Hitler's personal history, pre WWII, and the SS along with the Gestapos and how much of a thriving power they where when Hilter was coming into power. Soon after the lecture and a quick tour of the Topographies site and we ended our day at the Jewish Museum by D. Libeskind.

model of museum

Garden of exile with the museum

Museums exterior