Ifat Finkelman Architecture

IMJ Tree House

IMJ Tree House

IMJ Tree House

Ifat Finkelman & Deborah Warschawski

FIRM
Ifat Finkelman & Deborah Warschawski

TYPE
Landscape + Planning › Playground

YEAR
2014

STATUS
Built

SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET
$500K - 1M

PHOTOS
Amit Geron (25)

The entrance courtyard of the Youth Wing for Art Education at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IMJ) is a main gathering place for visitors- adults, children and groups- within its modern concrete-and-stone architectural surroundings.

IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House

The project - a renewal of the courtyard - combines a program open to interpretation by its users with a clearly defined context.

The existing pine tree is the focus of the project, the physical anchor of the design concept.

IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House

As a tribute to the childhood collective memory of a tree house, a small roofed structure where children can hide and over look at, is positioned high up the tilted trunk, raised above the meticulous surroundings of the museum.

Along with its strong iconic appearance, it also functions as the peak of one continuous structural folded element allows various situations occur along.

IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House

The structural technique- 2 cm Ipea boards fixed to a light steel skeleton - creates a range of transparencies from top to bottom.

While gradually transforms towards the ground, the element’s surface becomes a playground; sitting elements framing a topography covered with a soft EPDM rubber surface.

IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House

All this carefully hides the underground infrastructure configuration as well as a widespread root system.

At night the house is the only element illuminated, and emerges floating above the courtyard's entrance.

IMJ Tree House


IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House


IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House


IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House


IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House
IMJ Tree House

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