© Klemens Ortmeyer, Stephan Falk

Klemens Ortmeyer，Stephan Falk

架构师提供的文本描述。在卑尔根-贝尔森纪念馆，一座200米长的大楼完全由混凝土制成，它是文献和信息中心。它超乎寻常的体积，对使用少数关键材料的根本限制，以及大型结构的物理存在，都被浓缩成强大的建筑。位于原集中营边缘的“海德瓦尔德”森林中央的展览馆，追溯了从赛勒到霍斯特的乡间公路的原路，随着营地的建造，这条路线发生了改变。

Text description provided by the architects. A 200-meter-long edifice made entirely of concrete houses the Documentation and Information Center at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial. Its extraordinary volume, the radical restriction to the use of just a few key materials and the physical presence of the large structure are condensed into powerful architecture. The exhibition building in the middle of the ‘Heidewald’ forest on the edge of the former concentration camp traces the original course of the country road from Celle to Hörste, which was altered with the construction of the camp.

 © Klemens Ortmeyer, Stephan Falk

Klemens Ortmeyer，Stephan Falk

这座建筑物分为两部分。其中一个是书店、自助餐厅、图书馆、档案馆和行政部门，另一个是文献和信息中心的展览空间。该建筑物的重点是在其内部，使深入考虑的文件展示方面的游客。该架构说明了一种新形式的纳粹罪行文献和研究的重要性，并以适当的方式表达了这一点。

The building is divided into two sections. One houses the bookshop, cafeteria, library, archive, and administration department, the other exhibition space for the Documentation and Information Center. The focus of the building is on its interior, enabling a profound consideration of the documents exhibited on the part of the visitor. The architecture illustrates the importance of a new form of documentation and research of Nazi crimes, and expresses this in an appropriate way.

 Floor Plan

游客可以选择两条路。在所谓的“石路”上，他们可以穿过整栋大楼，而不需要进入展览室。这条纤细的小径最初被覆盖着，现在通向天空，两旁是高高的混凝土墙，带着游客穿过一个庭院，来到大楼的另一边，在那里，它通向营地的地面。

Visitors have a choice of two paths. On the so-called “stony path” they can pass through the entire length of the building without entering the exhibition rooms. Initially covered, the slender path, now open to the skies, in flanked by high concrete walls leading the visitor across a courtyard to the other side of the building, where it opens onto the grounds of the camp.

 © Klemens Ortmeyer, Stephan Falk

Klemens Ortmeyer，Stephan Falk

第二条路不断上升，但几乎不明显，通向大展厅的尽头，展厅跨越了两个层次，记录了该遗址从战俘到集中营的历史。展览室尽头有一扇宽阔的全景窗，让参观者可以看到场地的景色。出于对这个地方的尊重，该建筑的尽头就在地面上方，比营地的前边界高出几米。

Rising continually though scarcely noticeably, the second path leads to the end of the large exhibition hall, which extends over two levels and documents the history of the site from prisoner of war to concentration camp. A wide panoramic window at the end of the exhibition room affords visitors a view of the grounds. Out of respect for the place, just above ground level the end of the building projects several meters beyond the former boundary of the camp

建筑结构的异乎寻常的形状，对材料的限制，以及整体色彩的缺乏，使建筑在设计上具有一定的严谨性。极简主义建筑将参观者的注意力转移到展览中的物品和文件上。这样，它就公正地处理了困难的任务，并表明了以适当的方式正式和历史地对待主题问题的严肃性。

The structure’s extraordinary shape, the limitation to just a few materials, and the total lack of color lends the building a certain stringency in terms of design. The minimalist architecture diverts visitors’ attention to the objects and documents in the exhibition. This way it does justice to the difficult task and makes evident the seriousness with which the subject matter is treated both formally and historically in an appropriate way.

 © Klemens Ortmeyer, Stephan Falk

Klemens Ortmeyer，Stephan Falk

Architects KSP Engel und Zimmermann Architekten

Location Belsen, 29303 Bergen, Germany

Category Offices

Area 4900.0 sqm

Project Year 2007

Photographs Klemens Ortmeyer, Stephan Falk