架构师提供的文本描述。该遗址位于墨西哥城最重要的公园查普尔特佩克(Chapultepec)。森林的这一部分属于联邦政府，由墨西哥国防部保管，有许多地方；因此，首先，纪念碑项目意味着恢复15 000平方米的公共空间。

Text description provided by the architects. The site is in Chapultepec, the most important park of Mexico City. This part of the forest belongs to the Federal Government and was under the custody of the Ministery of Defense of Mexico for many deacades; so first of all, the Memorial´s Project means the recuperation of  15,000 sqm in terms of public space.

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纪念碑是我们可以在其中找到对文化和历史的纪念和记忆的建筑作品；在墨西哥暴力受害者纪念碑的具体案例中，我们在建筑方面实现了墨西哥社会最重要和当前的问题之一：暴力。这是一个巨大而开放的伤口；为了应对这一问题，我们提议在现场开展一个开放项目，向城市开放，向公民开放；一个与城市及其演员有着牢固关系的项目。恢复公共空间以及纪念暴力受害者是该项目的实质。

A memorial is the architectural piece in which we can find the remembrance and the memory of the culture and history; in the particular case of the Memorial of the Victims of the Violence in Mexico, we materialize, in terms of architecture, one of the most important and current issues of Mexican society: violence. This is the big and open wound; in response to this, we propose an open project in the site, open to the city and open to the apropiation by the citizens; a project with a strong relationship with the city and her actors. The recuperation of the public space as well as the remembrance of the victims of violence are the essence of the project.

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我们的项目发挥了公共空间和纪念性的双重条件。

Our project plays the double condition of public space and memorial.

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第一个前提是承认该地点是一片森林；具有非常强的自然存在；树木在那里，它们是遗址的特征。

The first premise was to recognize the vocation of the site as a forest; with a very strong presence of nature; the trees are there and they characterize the site.

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暴力是在两个方面提出的：空虚和建造。

The violence is suggested in two dimensions: the void and the built.

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该项目中提出的空白是在钢墙和树木之间创造的空间。这一空虚或空虚的空间可以提醒我们不要忘记人们的存在和缺席的概念，以及铁墙的表面，生锈的或镜像的，表明我们可以迷失自己，加入自己，或削弱自己。

The void proposed in the project is the space created between the steel walls and the trees. This void or empty space could remind us the concept of the no–presences and absenses of the people to remember, and the surfaces of the steel walls, rusty or mirroring, show that we can lose ourselves, add ourselves, or mutiply ourselves.

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此外，如果我们把暴力看作是破坏，那么建造70座钢墙就会成为对抗暴力的良药。

Besides that, if we think of violence as destruction, the construction of seventy steel walls plays as the great antidote against the violence .

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最大的投射作用是在树木之间用球状钢建造七十堵金属墙，这是自然与建筑的双重作用：树木的森林和墙壁的森林。树木和游客的社会扮演生物；墙壁的社会扮演受害者记忆的无形。

The big projectual action consists on building seventy metalic walls in corten steel rising between the trees; it is a dual play between nature and architecture: the forest of trees and the forest of walls.  The society of the trees and the visitors play the living beings; the society of the walls play the unmateriality of the memories of the victims.

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材料清单减少了：钢铁和混凝土，加上了森林的自然元素。我们以三种方式使用球绳钢：天然的，生锈的或不锈钢的，每一种都有不同的含义。生锈的钢铁意味着时间在我们一生中留下的印记和伤痕。不锈钢用于反映和繁衍生物：人、树和中央空间的水；天然钢被用作一个不受干扰的元素，提醒我们社会必须维持和平生活的主要和基本价值。混凝土用于车道和长凳，用于行走和反射。

The list of materials is reduced: steel and concrete, added to the natural elements of the forest. We are using the corten steel in three ways: natural, rusty or stainless mirroring, each of them with different meanings. The rusty steel means the marks and scars that time makes in our lifetime. The stainless mirroring steel is used to reflect and multiply the living: persons, trees, and the water of the central space; and the natural steel is used as an unperturbed element that remind us the main and essential values that societies must keep to live in peace. Concrete is used for the lanes and the benches; for walking and reflection.

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中央空间是纪念馆的主要空间，有一个1200 SPM喷泉，形状未定，几何图形开放，提醒我们暴力问题仍然存在。喷泉上覆盖着一个格子，这样游客就可以在水面上行走了。水是生命，水是清洁的，水是治愈的。

In the central space, which is the main space of the Memorial, there is a 1,200 spm fountain with an undetermined form and open geometry, to remind us that the violence issue is still opened. The fountain is covered with a grid so that the visitor can walk over the water. Water means life; water cleans, and water heals.

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在这个地区，钢墙越来越高，创造了整个地方最强的戏剧。树木和墙壁的倒影使我们的眼睛上下移动。当他们上升时，他们看到天空，光明，太阳…希望。

In this area the steel walls rise stronger and taller,  creating the strongest drama in the whole place. The reflection in the water of trees and walls make our eyes go up and down. When they go up, they see the sky, the light, the sun…the hope.

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最后，工程中最重要的部分之一是钢墙的人性化和专用化。社会有责任建造纪念碑。七十个金属墙是人们写下受害者的名字，表达他们的痛苦、愤怒和渴望的空间。这些钢墙充当镜子和黑板，通过文字，被转化为有组织犯罪的暴力所引发的痛苦和破坏的见证人。

Finally, one of the most important parts of the project is the humanization and appropriation of the steel walls. Society is responsible for making the Memorial.  The seventy metallic walls are spaces for people to write the name of their victim, and express their pain, anger, and longings. These steel walls play as mirrors and blackboards, and by the writings, being transformed into witnesses of the pain and destruction provoked by the violence of the organized crime.