Dorte Mandrup has revealed visuals of a museum in Berlin that will create a backdrop to the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof station and tell stories of the people who fled the Nazi regime.
Slated for completion in 2025, the Exilmuseum Berlin will be built on the Askanischer Platz and also spotlight present-day experiences of displacement.
Dorte Mandrup's design has a simple, curved form and is intended to highlight the position of the former Anhalter Bahnhof railway station, from where hundreds of people fled in exile during World War II before it was largely destroyed by bombing in 1943.
The station's ruins, which have since become an important monument, will be kept intact and become the focal point of the museum's entrance behind it.
Museum will be "minimal yet forceful gesture" "It is fantastic to be part of creating a place where the understanding of exile is being illuminated," the studio's founder, Dorte Mandrup, told Dezeen.
"It has never been more pressing than today where more than 65 million people are driven into exile," she continued. "The museum will be a memorial of the past and a vehicle for future awareness and solidarity."

"Our concept is a minimal, but forceful gesture ? a single curve that marks the position of the former Anhalter Bahnhof and creates a void that bridges the past and present," added Mandrup.
Once complete, the curved facade of the 6,300-square-metre Exilmuseum Berlin will be punctured by wide a...