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Pedagogical Landscapes
A campus core where nature and learning coalesce
Role:Project Architect (via Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects)
Location: Beit Berl, Israel
Client: Beit Berl College
Site Area: 4,200 m²
Context
Beit Berl is a college embedded in nature, but its academic core was scattered - spatially and pedagogically.
Students moved between isolated buildings, each independent, with no central rhythm or shared heart.
The brief called for a new structure - one that could function not just as a building, but as a campus compass.
The challenge was to gather - without enclosing. To connect - without declaring.
Strategy
Rather than mark a center, we traced one.
The structure is long and curved, embedded gently into the slope of the site -a form that doesn’t sit on the land but moves with it.
The building became a connector, not a container.
Classrooms are arranged along a soft spine. Circulation is open-air and continuous.
Walls dissolve into transparent façades; thresholds become courtyards.
It’s not a building to enter - it’s a place you pass through, pause within, or drift alongside.
Human Experience &
Interior Logic
My role focused on shaping the spatial experience from the inside out:
defining how function meets presence, and how the architecture supports a rhythm of learning, meeting, resting, and returning.
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Every decision - from the position of a bench to the orientation of a teaching wall - was designed for clarity and invitation. I curated the full layout of furniture, selected materials, and led the interior design process to ensure consistency between architecture, use, and mood. The goal was to make the building feel inhabitable from day one - spatially and emotionally.
Material & Atmosphere
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Light steel framing and shaded glazing to preserve openness
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Recessed courtyards drawing the landscape into the learning environment
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Orientation designed for natural ventilation and daylit classrooms
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Materials selected to soften acoustics, light, and transitions
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The design resists monumentality. It prefers porosity: in climate, in circulation, in interpretation.
Outcome
Pedagogical Landscapes reshaped not just movement, but memory.
It introduced a rhythm into the daily routine - one that prioritizes air, softness, and choice.
Instead of centralizing power, the building decentralizes ownership.
It becomes part of how you learn - not just where you do it.
