The Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh, which was designed by an architect from Bandung, West Java, Ridwan Kamil, is a design that won an international competition held in 2007 to commemorate the 2004 tsunami disaster.The building has the concept of Aceh rumoh and on escape hill and as its main reference is Islamic values, local culture, and tsunami abstraction. [2] The museum is a 2,500 m² four-story structure whose curved walls are covered in geometric reliefs. Inside, visitors enter through a narrow, dark passage between two high walls of water - to recreate the atmosphere and panic of the tsunami. The museum walls are decorated with pictures of people dancing Saman, a symbolic meaning for the strength, discipline, and religious beliefs of the Acehnese tribe. [3] From above, the roof forms the waves of the sea. The ground floor is designed to resemble a traditional Aceh stilt house that survived the onslaught of the tsunami. [1] The rooftop of the Aceh Tsunami Museum building was also designed as an escape roof, which is an evacuation area in the event of a flood or tsunami disaster in the future. [4] The building commemorates the victims, whose names are inscribed on the wall of one of the museum's inner chambers, and the community members who survived this disaster. [3] Apart from its role as a memorial to the dead, the museum is also useful as a shelter from future disasters of this kind, including a "refugee hill" for visitors in case a tsunami occurs again.
