Daniel Libeskind already determines the site with strong and significant surrounding design. Due to that the hole of ground zero is left empty.

This means the challenge of a memorial design that develops the particular spot, working with the surrounding elements, meeting countless expectations and demands without building anything that disturbs the existing ideas.
It is solved in a proposal, that bundles the local conditions and energies of ground zero and the aching memories of September 11th transforming and harmonizig them within Liebeskind´s design.
The focus is set on the following elements:
. the sunshine (nature)
. the footprins (rememberance)  
. the great reminding walls (mournig)
. the 1776 feet tall skyscraper (symbol)

The skyscraper, as a symbol of hope, reflects sunlight onto the memorial site. Small, computer-controlled reflectors on top of the tower, trace the sun and send reflections to the ground of the hole, the walls and the persons at the site. The reflections do not remain static, but move around like a constantly changing painting on the ground. Five times a day they will bundle within the two footprints of the former towers – depending on natural circumstances like the weather.

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