Submitted by:
Jean Koeppel
Team member:
Tom Kowalski
Brooklyn, New York

About the designers:
Koeppel has worked in Europe on environmental projects including the redesign of Hanover, Germany's Transportation System prior to the Expo 2000 World's Fair.
Kowalski, a native of Poland, has worked on projects including the New Media School in France and the New Student Center at Columbia University.

About the design:
Visitors will have the opportunity to share their thoughts and experiences, pay their respects and offer words of compassion, wisdom and support. The monument is constructed from 184 glass monolithic elements. They are distributed on a footprint 370-feet long and 20-feet wide. The monoliths stand of an island of granite in a reflective pool. The monoliths allow enough space in between for cool air to be drawn from below. This will allow condensation to accumulate on the lower portion of the monoliths and create visual layering effects. A visitor just has to touch the surface of the glass to leave an impression. The names of the victims who died in the Pentagon attack will be etched into the top half of the monoliths.

             

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