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Israel Museum, Jerusalem Expansion
Jerusalem, Israel
Project Featured on Dec 18, 2013
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2010
James Carpenter Design Associates led the reorganization, expansion and new construction of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, while Efrat-Kowalsky Architects was responsible for the renovation of the museum’s existing buildings. The expansion involves new construction (~95,000 sq. ft.), the reorganization of visitor circulation, Entrance Pavilions and a Gallery Entrance Pavilion improving visitor accessibility. The renovation of the existing museum galleries comprise of ~100,000 sq. ft.
GARDEN LIGHT / MUSEUM LIGHT:
The particular quality of light in Jerusalem, a product of longitude and latitude, climate, geography and topography, is unique. We believe that integral to the experience of place, is the experience of light and the particularities of light in Jerusalem is evidently powerful. Our approach to the renovation and expansion of the Israel Museum was to merge our careful consideration of light in the landscape with a rigorous attention to the existing built environment.
Apparent in our initial visits to the museum was a desire to clearly connect the existing, and quite extraordinary, garden by Isamu Noguchi with Alfred Mansfeld’s regional interpretation of Modernist architecture. Our guiding principal was to dissolve the barriers between the garden and the campus’ building interiors and to transform the challenge of the intense light conditions of the Mediterranean, into a comfortable yet remarkably sensory experience of light.
Our design organizes and inserts light and light information into the new architecture. This light information specifically embodies the quality of light found within the campus landscape and is used to activate the Entrance Pavilions, the Gallery Entrance Pavilion and the major below ground passage connecting the two - the Route of Passage.
THRESHOLD / PASSAGE:
The experience of light is particularly powerful within thresholds, and JCDA’s strategies for light were deeply informed by the idea of separating the building envelopes into two components: enclosure and shade. These components support the experiential presentation of volumetric light and views while moderating the sun’s intensity. The relationships between these two components were also carefully modulated to create a sense of passage through the built architecture and across the campus. The shifts in the depth of facades are adjusted, even stretched to transform them into shaded exterior passages. The play of transparency and opacity responds to both north/south and east/west exposures and is sometimes interrupted to frame views of important elements in the landscape and campus.
The spatial experience of the decentralized campus becomes simultaneously intuitive and sublime. Drawing from the encyclopedic nature of the institution’s collections, JCDA has created a journey through the museum’s public and interstitial spaces that progresses naturally and creates a sense of discovery. Volumetric light is the organizing principal for this passage through the museum and articulates Mansfeld’s Mediterranean hilltop village ideal through selective transparency. JCDA has reinterpreted the sensuality of narrow alleys and sunken oases by creating a defined arrangement of spatial experiences animated by phenomenal light.
COMPRESSION / EXPANSION:
JCDA undertook the complex task of responding to the existing architecture and presenting an architecture equal in quality and originality, by acquiring a deep understanding of the site and of Mansfeld’s ideas, for not only did we need to speak to the existing conditions’ positive attributes, but also to address the existing site’s challenges. Beyond problem solving we saw the opportunity in articulating Mansfeld’s deployment of ideal modules, which he scaled and massed in organic arrangements referencing hilltop villages, as an approach in designing our own buildings. We reinterpreted the standard building modules which would similarly compress and expand in response to the landscape, the campus architecture and most importantly, the passage through the museum’s entry sequence.
JCDA TEAM:
Principal: James Carpenter
Project Architect / Project Manager: Reid Freeman
Design Team: Catherine Hudak, Jennifer Gillette, Richard Kress, Ben MacDonald, Eva Rothmeier, Torsten Schlauersbach, Xavier Schirlin, Joseph Welker, Cameron Wu
TEAM:
Efrat Kowlasky Architects (EKA), renovation architect and planners
A. Lerman Architects Ltd., production architect
J. Kahan & Partners (JKP), structural engineers
Tillotson Design Associates, lighting designer
RTLD, associate lighting designer
Kasher Visual Communications, graphics
West End Architects and Environmental Planners, landscape design
Nizan-Inbar, Project Management
Danya Sebus, General Contractor
GARDEN LIGHT / MUSEUM LIGHT:
The particular quality of light in Jerusalem, a product of longitude and latitude, climate, geography and topography, is unique. We believe that integral to the experience of place, is the experience of light and the particularities of light in Jerusalem is evidently powerful. Our approach to the renovation and expansion of the Israel Museum was to merge our careful consideration of light in the landscape with a rigorous attention to the existing built environment.
Apparent in our initial visits to the museum was a desire to clearly connect the existing, and quite extraordinary, garden by Isamu Noguchi with Alfred Mansfeld’s regional interpretation of Modernist architecture. Our guiding principal was to dissolve the barriers between the garden and the campus’ building interiors and to transform the challenge of the intense light conditions of the Mediterranean, into a comfortable yet remarkably sensory experience of light.
Our design organizes and inserts light and light information into the new architecture. This light information specifically embodies the quality of light found within the campus landscape and is used to activate the Entrance Pavilions, the Gallery Entrance Pavilion and the major below ground passage connecting the two - the Route of Passage.
THRESHOLD / PASSAGE:
The experience of light is particularly powerful within thresholds, and JCDA’s strategies for light were deeply informed by the idea of separating the building envelopes into two components: enclosure and shade. These components support the experiential presentation of volumetric light and views while moderating the sun’s intensity. The relationships between these two components were also carefully modulated to create a sense of passage through the built architecture and across the campus. The shifts in the depth of facades are adjusted, even stretched to transform them into shaded exterior passages. The play of transparency and opacity responds to both north/south and east/west exposures and is sometimes interrupted to frame views of important elements in the landscape and campus.
The spatial experience of the decentralized campus becomes simultaneously intuitive and sublime. Drawing from the encyclopedic nature of the institution’s collections, JCDA has created a journey through the museum’s public and interstitial spaces that progresses naturally and creates a sense of discovery. Volumetric light is the organizing principal for this passage through the museum and articulates Mansfeld’s Mediterranean hilltop village ideal through selective transparency. JCDA has reinterpreted the sensuality of narrow alleys and sunken oases by creating a defined arrangement of spatial experiences animated by phenomenal light.
COMPRESSION / EXPANSION:
JCDA undertook the complex task of responding to the existing architecture and presenting an architecture equal in quality and originality, by acquiring a deep understanding of the site and of Mansfeld’s ideas, for not only did we need to speak to the existing conditions’ positive attributes, but also to address the existing site’s challenges. Beyond problem solving we saw the opportunity in articulating Mansfeld’s deployment of ideal modules, which he scaled and massed in organic arrangements referencing hilltop villages, as an approach in designing our own buildings. We reinterpreted the standard building modules which would similarly compress and expand in response to the landscape, the campus architecture and most importantly, the passage through the museum’s entry sequence.
JCDA TEAM:
Principal: James Carpenter
Project Architect / Project Manager: Reid Freeman
Design Team: Catherine Hudak, Jennifer Gillette, Richard Kress, Ben MacDonald, Eva Rothmeier, Torsten Schlauersbach, Xavier Schirlin, Joseph Welker, Cameron Wu
TEAM:
Efrat Kowlasky Architects (EKA), renovation architect and planners
A. Lerman Architects Ltd., production architect
J. Kahan & Partners (JKP), structural engineers
Tillotson Design Associates, lighting designer
RTLD, associate lighting designer
Kasher Visual Communications, graphics
West End Architects and Environmental Planners, landscape design
Nizan-Inbar, Project Management
Danya Sebus, General Contractor
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