Team Supreme

Depending on the manner in which it is engaged, the slope yields conditions with varying opportunities for inhabitation. Imagining the hillside as an engageable datum and utilizing a methodology derived from the principles inherent in and iteratively derived from experiments with corrugation (to corrugate a material is to strengthen it through alternating folds, and resultant attributes include creasing, layering, directionality, looping, surface inter-sections, folding, and deformation with tension), a flexible system of weaving in and out of the land is developed in which pockets of land are selectively cleft away for programmatic inhabitation. The system used to physically engage the landscape is a consistent technique, and through modulation and critical implementation based on existing slope and vegetation, pockets of space are created for various programs. Platforms are anchored either to the hillside by means of a grade beam and anchors, or slightly cantilevered out of the carved out space. Space under the platforms can be utilized for sheltering services to run between the villages. As the system takes advantage of the hillside’s variable verticality in combining various connections to create a customized, responsive environment dictated by the landscape slope, it expands vertically, and programs additional to the first four can be nested within its interstices.

When a terrain is too steep to build on, the program supported is primarily pedestrian movement and service infrastructure.

Where the terrain becomes less of an incline, certain areas of the section lend themselves to a more vertical alignment of program, creating the possibility for a dense pocket of activity within the system.

When the land decreases in incline, punctures are more easily created, allowing program to be broader and slightly staggered.

A flatter landscape easily sustains program that can spread out horizontally, along the pathways of the scheme.

Initial anchor programs vital to future development are the following:

Gallery Promenade:

The promenade is an outdoor exhibition space that utilizes the steeper slope along the southern edge of Ein Hod, amenable to displaying art and objects created in the villages. The variegated warp of the structure gives the land a thicker, woven texture. The space within its confines is both the increasingly divergent climax and a smooth beginning to traversal of the inter-village terrain.

The Grove:

The grove is a natural mediation between discrete parts of the scheme, a place of peace, refuge, and relaxation. Where the grove and the built intervention overlap, the occupiable areas receive leafy shade to provide respite from southern sunlight.

Outdoor Performance Space:

Equidistant from the two villages is an out door performance space. It is a dedicated community event space for plays, music performances, movie screenings and sculpture installations. It is planned as a hinge between the two separate fasciae of tissue connecting the communities.

Community Clinic:

The clinic serves a dual purpose, to be an anchor catalyst for this slope development and to provide healthcare to both settlements. It is purely community based so that everyone has the freedom to benefit from its resources. The clinic is used here as an example of how the increase in modulation of the system can produce spaces in which larger program can reside.