The Ari Kushner Building for the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (JAMD) is completed, creating transparency with stone, and channelling chaos into its corridors
Diamonds of Jerusalem stone shroud the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance's new Ari Kushner Building, but the solid skin they make dissolves in places, disappearing entirely at the entrance. Matthias Hollwich, founder of New York-based architects HWKN, describes the design as ‘a gesture of invitation’. Inside the box-shaped 2,500 sq m building, an atrium cuts through three floors of performance spaces and studios.
The entrance through the stone screen leads into an atrium called ‘The In Between’. Yellow velvet acoustic strips are hung all around it, setting a bright, welcoming tone, while criss-crossing staircases and bridges bring spatial drama. Their black steel balustrades are mounted on concrete that is thick and rough, ‘allowing it to be what it is’ as Ella comments. The brutalist dimension they bring to the space ‘is not by accident’, he adds.
Hollwich notes that in JAMD’s original structure, ‘there’s a lot of informal use and abuse of the building, in a positive way’. It is seen in the mild chaos of people, equipment, and furniture that has colonised its courtyard and corridors. Ella says that in the Kushner Building, ’the challenge was to physically and conceptually break down the barrier’ to the old building, so that the social interaction, vital to collaboration, could spread into the new building.
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