Good design is often judged by how it looks.This project begins by asking how it works.
The story unfolds in reverse, starting with the finished space and tracing back through the ideas, decisions, and materials that shaped it. As the layers are revealed, the project’s DNA comes into focus: design as logic, choice, and context rather than decoration.
The project is located at Hujitech – Gav Yam Hebrew, positioned on a hill in Jerusalem with open, expansive views. This setting plays a central role in shaping the workplace environment, encouraging a strong visual and spatial connection to the surrounding landscape.
The workplace is conceived as a series of interconnected gardens distributed throughout the plan. Numerous indoor and outdoor gardens create moments of pause, focus, and interaction, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior spaces. Their purpose is to bring light, air, and nature deep into the workplace, supporting wellbeing and creating a balanced daily experience.
Within this garden-based framework, a distributed food environment replaces a single centralized cafeteria. Four culinary islands, each with its own identity and rhythm, are woven into the workplace, forming a network of restaurants that reduce congestion, shorten distances, and support a more fluid daily routine.
Food is positioned along key circulation routes and near focus, meeting, and collaboration zones. Guided by Space Syntax principles, movement becomes continuous and intuitive, encouraging informal encounters throughout the day and turning food areas into social anchors rather than isolated destinations.
The spatial language draws inspiration from a market, rich in variety, color, and choice. Multiple small elements come together as one coherent whole through repetition, material consistency, and a continuous structural gesture.
Materially, the project references natural layers found in the ocean and the earth. Layered materials shape light, sound, and texture, creating depth and a rich sensory experience that complements the surrounding views and gardens.
Ultimately, the project demonstrates that meaningful design is not defined by aesthetics alone, but by systems and decisions that quietly support everyday life. We were privileged to accompany this remarkable project in successful collaboration with Urbach-Halevy Architects.
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