The new addition to the Rishonim Junior High School at Ganey Tikva, emerged from the desire to turn the usual experience of institutional domination into a celebration of the freedom of choice.    

© Yael Engelhart

Architects: Doron Sheinman

Location: Ganei Tikva, Israel

Architect In Charge: Noam Bitrany

Client: Ganey Tikva Local Council

Area: 1000.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Yael Engelhart

The new addition to the Rishonim Junior High School at Ganey Tikva, emerged from the desire to turn the usual experience of institutional domination into a celebration of the freedom of choice.    

© Yael Engelhart
Using the student?s perspective as a point of departure, the building is designed to be a protective, yet enabling place. The combination of freedom and security is created by the effective organization of the building?s enclosure and circulation, or the unique situations formed by the relationship between the two.

© Yael Engelhart

The building enclosure is based on a gradual transition between exterior and interior spaces. Formed by a versatile play of shadow and light, this transition establishes a new, softer and unknown, space. Consequentially, the traditional division between exterior and interior is blurred, and a new, in-between, space replaces the ol...