Bait La’Ivrit

Location: Rishon LeZion
Year: 2015-2017
Area: 6,000 sqm
Site area: 13,000 sqm
Status: Unbuilt
Client: Rishon Lezion Municipality
Team: Adi Samet, Alon Sarig,
Collaboration: Dan Hasson
Landscape Architect: Inside-Outside, Amsterdam; Moria-Sekely, Tel Aviv

Project Description:

The International Center For the Hebrew Language in Rishon leZion is situated on the grounds of Haviv elementary school - the first school to teach modern Hebrew - established in 1882. 

The center will operate in coordination with the school, which operates till this day in the core of the historical city of Rishon le Zion. The school's original building will be conserved and used as a museological space for the school and the Hebrew language. The adjacent historical 'Medalya' house will be conserved as an integral part of the site and will host a coffee house.

The public complex, enfolding The International Center For the Hebrew Language; which will host manifold audiences for experiential learning, Enrichment activities, meetings and conferences regarding the Hebrew language.

The open spaces of the project are designed as a continuous urban promenade intertwined with the interior spaces at the ground floor of the Hebrew Center. The entire site is encompassed on its perimeter by a green pergola, providing outdoor classrooms and shaded play-areas for the school, hangouts for the Hebrew Center and a soft buffer from the adjacent neighborhood.