Vol. 9B

++Ein Hud As An Emblem
Similar to all other kinds of embroidery, the Palestinian patterns are created through sewing with a single thread which holds grids of filament together. Our investigation of settlement embroidery began at the relationship within all the unrecognized villages spread throughout the state of Israel. The concentrated settlements of unrecognized villages in the northern and southern Israel are bounded together by a penetration of a route of an oil pipe. The oil pipe resembles the thread in embroidery and enacts an axial force along Israel. Such force initiates encirclements of labour movements in unrecognized villages as if the internal forces within the grids of filament exert in surrounding directions.
Our master plan for Ein Hud inherits the principle of embroidery from the entire Israel and reduces its scale. A thread of road extending in two directions from the village of Ein Hod and Et Zion towards a single point, the existing generator, in Ein Hud. A linkage among these three places is inserted as a neutral media in connecting the Jewish and Palestinian neighbourhoods. A grid of filaments is overlaid on the site. As the road, the thread, is striking the grid with an axial force, the internal forces within the filaments are generated and thus, creating a distortion inside the grid. The distorted grids of filament define a new potential developing area for the village of Ein Hud, meanwhile, the internal forces enfold the local mobility and settlements along the thread. The act of embroidery at Ein Hud unfolds a possibility in extracting unrecognized villages from invisibility into visibility and setting off a new direction in unity of settlements from different cultural backgrounds.

++When Embroidery happens in Ein Hud
The road connection, the thread, penetrates Et Zion, Ein Hud, Ein Hod and finally merge into Road No. 4. It would further connect other aspects of activities inside the village of Ein Hud and they are cultural, political, religious, educational, commercial, recreational, agricultural and residential. Within embroidery, the internal forces of labour movements are induced as encirlements within the grids of filament. Such encirclements of forces construct routes in the shape of loops branching off from the main thread. These loops become circulations and hold different aspects of activities together by controlling the rhythm of activities throughout the site with tension generated in embroidery. The inward movements of commuters and visitors create a stretching effect while the outward movements create a loosing effect. The intensity of tension relies on the sizes of loops. A study of Jewish, Arabian, Muslim and Christian daily lives pattern was necessary in analyzing the inter-related rhythm among the different aspects of activities. Sabbath was one of the main issues in the analysis for instance, it has been absorbed into the daily lives of the Palestinians in Ein Hud meanwhile they are required to maintain their own daily praying routine. With the help of tension, a balance in drastically varied life styles of different cultures could be easily maintained.
Commuters and visitors enter Ein Hud along the main thread from the two sides of the village which act as buffer zones accompanied with commercial activities against the outer areas. The main thread then leads them into one of the centered loop containing the multi-functional center which is combined with a bus terminal. Each loop begins and ends at a bus stop which serves as a collector of individual and common transportation. It is a transitional space from group access into individual access as one could split off from public transportation and take his own personal route on foot to explore the rest of the site, or vice versa. A parking lot is set next to each bus stop for the particular residential area in order to absorb private vehicles in one place so that the use of public transportation is encouraged. The bus stops blend into the daily routine of the Muslims as they are transformed into praying stations during the hours of prayer.
Extending from the multi-functional center, other cultural, religious, educational, medical and recreational activities are located in the middle of the village. As a relief from the intense occupancies of these activities, a strip of open space overlaps them starting off from the agricultural area.

++Friction Against Emotional Inertia
The multi-functional center containing spaces for exhibition, museum, hospitality and convention plays a crucial role in the village of Ein Hud as a transitional space for the foreigners including Jewish and people from other area or countries. Visitors merge into the loop from the main thread and pass through strips of parking spaces into the building. Most visitors with no familiarity of the Palestinian culture could subconsciously put a stereotypical opinion on a newly introduced environment. Such phenomenon is inertia in emotion. According to the first law of Physics, “inertia” can be defined as an object tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. To insert such an unbalanced force, friction, the building is transformed into fragmented partitions and sloping levels. These features enact a directed force towards the circulation of visitors and gradually guide them into the various spaces of exhibitions and meetings. Slight friction would be insinuated to alter the routes of visitors and inertia would continue throughout the rest of the trip within the site.

++The New Identity of Ein Hud
The new identity of Ein Hud evolves from its old traditions. It is important to preserve certain existing features within Ein Hud, including the mosque, the generator, part of the trails and houses. These established components though with only five decades of time, unveil stories of the settlement and project a sense of belonging for the Palestinians in the village. In return, the old traditions contribute in creating the village’s characters and allow tourism to grow naturally.

An identity of a settlement is necessary in order to persist a sustainable development especially in Israel due to its complicated cultural and historic background. Repetitions could lead to unfriendly competitions. Therefore, each Jewish or Palestinian settlement should remain its own characters so that the communities from the two cultures can be joined as puzzles with the aid of appropriate policies. Being the joint between Ein Hod and Et Zion, Ein Hud is inserting its importance as a supporting resource. In this way, there will be a possibility of facilitating the balance of import and export in the local neighbourhood. Ein Hud, as a result, reduces the labour mobility in and out of the village itself. The control of mobility is essential since, suggested by Kelvin Lynch in “Good City Form,” involuntary mobility entails serious costs such as psychological depression. Therefore, the act of embroidery does not only connect Jewish and Palestinian communities, it also refines Ein Hud’s self development and the balance among the drastically distinct cultures.