Bezalel
Area: 35,000m2
Status: Competition
Year: 2007
Location: Jerusalem
Israel
Landscaping: Balmori Associates
The project is inspired by the interaction of cultures, times and languages in Jerusalem, seeking to respect and reinterpret history, transforming difficulty into a creative virtue. Conceptually, it summarizes the structure of the ancient city and metaphorically recreates the cracked ground to resolve the programmatic complexity. The proposal aims to meet the needs of the university program and recover a degraded green space, with a horizontal, anonymous and synthetic design that seeks to generate an inspiring urban conversation. Morphologically, it is organized under a solid and moldable element that controls natural lighting, contrasting with the transparency of the internal structures, where the program is distributed on two levels of interaction: ground floor and roof used as a park, with a labyrinthine and mathematically calibrated pattern of spaces linked by transparent corridors.