Evoking Emotional Agony and Reconciliation: Intuitive Strategies of Interior and Furniture Design in Memorial Museum

This study analyses the discourse in architecture and interiors of memorial architecture dedicated to human rights violations, through a series of in-depth analysis of different examples of approaches classified under either Site Dependent Memorials or Site Independent Memorial Museums. Each approach embodies the message which they intend to convey relative to the ad-jacent human rights violation. They all have one commonality which is a collection of memory. Memorial spaces serve as a reminder of what human beings should always value the most which is Humanity and Compassion even when situations make it impossible. A number of approaches in architecture and interior spaces have existed for a number of decades now and whether these methods have reduced their effectiveness to a state of neglect or complacency is up for debate. What then has to be done to make sure that they continue to be most effective? Do we need to rethink architectural approaches to make them more thought provoking, more intuitive, more tenacious? Which approaches offer the most efficient results to the overall goal? This study will analyses specific examples which went beyond the norms and those that naturally transition in-to memorial museums that evokes a vast number of emotions that can lead their visitors to a state of contemplation, remorse and acceptance. It will also look at various ways in which cer-tain methods can raise the effectiveness of these interior spaces. How lighting, spatial composi-tion, method of collecting memories, methods of narrating a brutal historical event. Furthermore, this study will compare the findings of each example and try deduce a plausible conclusion in the distinction of Memorial Museums based on the given criteria.