P2 פרופיל העונה - סטודיו 53 | | | 2024 פברואר 136 אדריכלות ישראלית profile of the season jacob peretz - studio p2 Dr. Hillit Mazor Architect Jacob Peretz grew up on Moshav Devorah in Emek Yizrael. His father was a farmer and pedagogue who focused on teaching gifted children. From his mother, who made pottery, as well as from her extended family, which includes three painters and a sculptor, he inherited the urge to create. In 1980, after his military service, Peretz was accepted to the Technion Faculty of Architecture, joining a class which yielded quite a few well known architects, including Eitan Kimmel and Michal Eshkolot, Orit WillenbergGiladi, Baruch Reznik, Shalom Davidovich, Eli Yahalom and Oded Pfeffermann, who later became his partner. "On my first visit to the Faculty of Architecture Library I found a Double Avenue booklet on a shelf, published in 1975 by (the late) Prof. Avraham Vachman, a talented morphologist who was appointed Dean during the period of my studies - a morphology-based ecodemographic thesis that predated its own time in many respects.” "Since then, Peretz has dedicated much time to exploring this program, while at the same time, as an architect, he is active in various social settings, while trying to influence the "face of the State". Some aspects have a direct (especially relevant) connection to our existence in the "Promised Land", such as the "Neighbors’" Association, which deals with the planning aspects of Jewish and Arab relations. As part of his ideological activity, twenty years ago Peretz moved to Kamon, a community settlement where he established Studio P2, which employs talented young architects from the Galilee. Although the nature of construction in our environment is traditional, we always try to produce a unique design, one that suits the time, place and the particular user that resides in it. A clean thought-line is characterized by simplicity, yet supported by state-of-the-art building materials, with a desired balance between old and new.״ Once, architects agreed that when they design a house it is fundamentally environment and climate-aware. That is, every plan begins with an appropriate relationship to the sun in order to ensure seasonal shading, natural light penetration, insulation and sealing, and ventilation. Nowadays, the green trend that has taken over the architectural agenda blurs the obvious by turning buildings into "plants" as the invention of the century, to produce electricity and purify water instead of engaging in reducing the need for air conditioning, while eliminating its prominent benefits. In my opinion, sustainable thought is blessed as long as it is meant to be part of a broader global view, but I am not at all certain that it always promotes architecture's higher purpose to make the world a better place. However, in order to realize this, we should not abandon our aspiration to live in aesthetic, welldesigned, functional buildings. What inspires your layout for the preliminary sketch of a building? The initial idea is probably born inside me after listening to the user and getting to know and understand the site. Then, I deepen my study of the site, as well as the municipal and program constraints. But above all, there is, of course, the deep and personal inner emotion that develops and is what accompanies me throughout the process, allowing me to visualize the final product even before the first line is drawn. After creating a conceptual model I usually ask myself whether the model is clear enough to relate to the user's emotional aspirations while evoking curiosity in others. Elaborate on the emotional reference, which, in my vision, is the one factor that differentiates between an architect's unique product and one from computer design software. "I absolutely agree with you; indeed, emotion is the human expression resulting from the depths of the creator's soul, with reference to time, place and culture. People will continue to create machines that can follow, emulate them, maybe even think they are like them, but never feel like them. What did you mean when you talked about an attractive, interesting aesthetic, inviting and sometimes even provoking a building? "Formal exceptions and environmental presence are not desired targets by themselves. However, in an alienated and boring environment there is no alternative but to stand out. If we return to the difference between man and the machine, I believe that a unique architectural statement has value, as any artistic work, like singing, telling a story or painting. How about the relationship between emotions and experience of the building. "In recent years, I have been taking the office team touring well-known buildings around the world, and every time the same reaction - exclamations accompany runny eyes trying to absorb and understand every detail. Just like a religious experience. Sitting on a bench outside or inside the building, trying to figure out what is working on us. Documenting, taking pictures endlessly and continuing to talk about it even months later in the studio.
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