This project’s concept centers around the idea of reclamation and population of desert areas through modern and sophisticated architectural technological expression.
We chose to incorporate living flora with artificial vegetation sculptures made of perforated and bended tin sheets. Their aesthetics were drawn from modern, fairly high-tech building cladding.
The motif is creating a surprising use of the material while utilizing the sheets in an elegant, smart and efficient way. Familiar desert landscape combined with modern technological advancement.
Square A, 20m ø
“From within the community, the Negev shall bloom”
We view the efforts of the council and the residents to live and establish a home and a community in the Negev as a joint effort.
Plurality of local desert flora combined with cacti sculptures that live together in harmony can be found in this square. The cacti sculptures will be cut off the metal sheet in a manner that leaves a cover for the square. leaving a negative space from which local flora will grow. The existent and the local shall grow out of progress, development and adaptation to the ever changing pace of the modern world.


Square B, 15m ø
“Blooming of the desert as a joint effort.”
The Negev region has a leading position in many fields; there’s industrial development, agricultural development and research, new infrastructure, and housing developments- as well as
education and development of community and culture.
A cactus sculpture, composed of 72 different pieces that connect to one impressive 3D cactus, will be situated in the middle of the square. The sculpture will be placed in the center of the square, surrounded by the same tin sheets, from which the 72 modular parts were cut. In those negative spaces local vegetation shall grow.
In both squares there is a combination of the known & local together with technology and architecture, both squares tell a story about growth and development from the familiar and known.