Proposed by Talmon Biran Architecture Studio, the Yad Le’Banim building is located within an existing grove at the local council of Ramat Yishay, Israel, which provides a unique opportunity to integrate landscape with the architectural design. This setting doesn’t only add a visual values for the building, but also adds and symbolic aspect – the trees which are seen from all the building’s façades create an image that expresses the relation between life and death, between growth and loss. This relation is inherent in the definition of the Yad Le’Banim buildings as cultural and educational centers on the one hand, and as a memorials on the other hand. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Yad Le’Banim buildings are multi-disciplinary cultural centers that offer cultural, social, and artistic activities for the local community in memory of fallen soldiers of Israel Defense Forces and Security Forces. The project’s scheme allows freedom in orienting the different functions in relation to the physical properties of the lot and climatic considerations – the classrooms’ northern façades face the upper street; the entrance lobby’s southwest orientation utilizes local wind regime for natural ventilation during summer and wind protection at winter times; The library which opens up to the surrounding grove enjoys natural light and ventilation and offers the feeling of an open space, through which the garden passes.
