STAV Architects shared with is their competition entry for The Umm el-Fahem Museum of Contemporary Art which was awarded third place. Planted in its surroundings, the building grows from the side of the mountain, looking towards the Wadi on its border. It refrains from overtaking the Wadi, posed on one of its banks and watches it to the opposite pine planted bank, watching the city from afar to spread into the urban topography of Wadi Ara, Israel. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The building stands between the trees which Umm el-Fahem lives among and by while blending with nature in the tradition of the Arabic-Israeli architecture. In doing do, the design combines culture and nature into one composite entity.
