Maket/Model
YAPI, FARKLI KOTLARA OTURAN BİRİMLERDEN
OLUŞTUĞU İÇİN TOPOGRAFYAYA YEDİRİLMİŞ
HİSSİ UYANDIRIYOR.
THE STRUCTURE IS FORMED OF DIFFERENT
UNITS SET ON VARIOUS LEVELS TO BLEND WITH
THE TOPOGRAPHY.
MİMAR / ARCHITECT: Donaire Arquitectos
YER / LOCATION: Ramallah, Filistin / Palestine
YIL / YEAR: Tasarım / Design, 2012
PROGRAM / PROGRAMME: Vakıf binası
Administrative and programmatic office for charitable foundation
MALZEMELER / MATERIALS: Kireç taşı, cam ve beton / Limestone, glass and concrete
TASARIM EKİBİ / DESIGN TEAM: Juan Pedro Donaire Barbero, Pablo Baruc García Gómez,
José Francisco García Gutiérrez, Hector Arderius Salvador, Carlos Iglesias Carbonell
by offering an informed and innovative approach that reconciles local
vernacular architecture with international contemporary discourses and
practices that present an alternative to the current Palestinian architectural
production, whilst also stimulating an international audience.”
After the completion of the application process in October 2012, four finalists
were invited to Birzeit University in Ramallah to present their projects.
These were Francisco Mangado Arquitectos, Pamplona, Spain, MRJ Rundell
& Associates, London, England, Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos, Spain and
Donaire Arquitectos, Seville, Spain. In December 2012, the proposal presented
by Donaire Arquitectos led by Juan Pedro Donaire Barbero was chosen as the
winning entry by the jury who remarked that, “This was the most functional
and flexible of the four designs, while also enjoying a degree of elegance
and beauty in a number of its aesthetic choices.”
RESPECTING THE PHYSICAL, TRANSFORMING THE TOPOGRAPHY
Donaire’s winning design was based on a combination of iconic and
architectonic strategies in tune with the local landscape and vernacular
architecture. In their proposal they emphasize this connection between
the visual and material, “ [A.M. Qattani Foundation’s] role as a flagship of
Palestinian culture is in need of a recognizable image worthy to represent
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