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Architects: Weinstein Vaadia Architects
- Area: 120 m²
- Year: 2010
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Photographs:Amir Balaban
Text description provided by the architects. When the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel asked us to propose an addition to the Jerusalem Bird Observatory, we saw it as an opportunity to test the concept of urban nature "by design." Having collaborated with the client since the first phase in 1998, and through subsequent work on projects of the type that has been dubbed "Green Architecture," we were curious about the extent to which a building could blur boundaries between urban "civilization" and its natural host. Was there not an inherent hostility between a building intervention and its environment?
