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Dwek Campus Center
Dwek Campus Center
Architect: Raphael Lerman
The Dwek Campus Center was designed by the architect Raphael Lerman in 1999. The building features a special stucco of local limestone, similar to that used in the courts of the adjacent Jubilee Plaza designed by Dan Reisinger together with the landscape architect Dan Zur. Use of the stucco was dictated by the architect’s desire to unite the components of the building and the plaza by means of a single, easily controlled material. Elsewhere in Israel, unique stucco, treated somewhat differently, has been used in Beit Hapalmach, Gan Ha’atzmaut and the Pinkas Towers in Tel Aviv.
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The stucco of the Dwek Campus Center is polished and porous, creating a feeling that the complex grows from the sandy ground of the surrounding orchards. The material used to pave the complex’s walkways also links the building closely with its immediate environment. A wide entrance leads to the building’s central space, which contains shops, a bank and a cafeteria overlooking the plaza. At the rear of the building are two elevated structures: one, resting on enormous walls, leads toward a rooftop observation terrace; the other descends to the verdant plaza. An elevator connecting the floors of the building is located in a separate rounded structure.
Whereas the stucco of the walls and the walkways is a material connected to the local environment and to the past, the building’s glass façade and its interior design project innovation and modernity through the use of high-tech materials: Transparent glass walls face the landscape between four round columns accentuated by silver aluminum coating; and indoors is a staircase of silvery steel with a glass balustrade. Light filters into the interior through a transparent vaulted roof.
