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Youth Village Desert Stars

 

Location: Beit Kama, Northern Negev 
Client: Desert Stars NGO
Area: 26,000 sqm
Team: Alon Sarig, Avinoam Sharon, Talma Weitzner, Adi Samet.
Year: 2018
Collaboration: Senan Abdel-Kader, Ran Goldman
Competition Entry

Project Description:

Our proposal for a Bedouin youth village offers a moderate and adjustable architectural environment, one that is embedded in the natural terrain and minimizes, as much as possible, its ecological footprint. It reflects a will to reconcile between formal and informal  practices and to reverberate the course of adaptation and the identity crisis overwhelming the Bedouin communities in the Negev in their transition from a tribal to a civil society.

Instead of a fixed composition of shapes and objects, we propose an open-ended pattern, overlaid on an infra-structure of shaded pathways, and subdivided into distinct “fields” of built clusters, according to the various prescribed programs of the youth village. Each “field” assumes its unique material and spatial character, assembles its particular inside-outside relationship, produces the necessary separations between boys and girls, adolescents and adults, and offers different qualities of stability and motion, solitude and gathering, open and closed views. 

On a broader scale, the youth village is not perceived as an enclosed ex-territorial “boarding school”, but rather designed as an accessible and vibrant center serving and projecting on the entire Bedouin diaspora dispersed across the Negev desert. 

 
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