The Schlossplatz a place that will represent most clearly the actual position of our society. Four elementary positions can be observed: the reconstruction of the historical building before 1945 (i.e. the former castle as a new building) as an architectural correction of history. The second position is an urban tabula rasa, the replacement of the Palast with a new building, namely a “re-boot” of history. The third position is keeping the actual situation which would mean to freeze the history. The fourth and most complex position is to reorganize the existing, to keep the Palast der Republik and the foundations of the castle combined with a new building in the remaining area that enables a reading of history and a future development. We have based our study on this fourth position, knowing that this position doesn’t have a major support in our society today. If there would be an interest in a solution leading into the future with respect for the past, it would need a very strong building with an embracing power. For this reasons we believe in an iconic architecture for this place.
 
Instead of a modernist transparency we worked for the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo with translucency, which enables a special sort of icon. Instead of reducing the building to a rational appearance, that is immediately conceivable, we generate a building by a translucent, second skin that gives only a hint of the inside and generates a ”Blurred Icon”. The different building elements appear partially but the entirety of the building is inconceivable. The translucent building seduces, frightens and draws the visitors inside. An icon that equals the mythic pharaonic history.