Rozen Linenberg Architects אדריכלות ישראלית Architecture of Israel #138 August 2024 | 58 | border where a helicopter was waiting to ferry him to the hospital,... while only a few days previously our team had gone on a break as most of us preferred to rest from the firefights, volunteering as Pomella pickers instead at Kibbutz Nir Am... ..picking, loading and driving the red tractors. Some asked not to be identified... since unofficial workers have no insurance... I wondered what they worried about in those insane days.. ...I took pictures of them playing like children, while the citrus fragrance mingled with the rain, reminiscent of an optimistic innocence from other times and places when we were free travelers... ...I documented them singing Yasmin Moalem's song "Finally there will be Good," a song that accompanied us throughout the fighting... ...A week later, I visited Natan in the orthopedic rehabilitation department where I met all the team members who came to visit him on their short Leave. I thought of the ancient Olive Press House revealed to us in the Casbah during the fighting - a well-built structure made of lava stones brought in from distant mountains, recycled hand-cut stone details corroded by time, with a variety of decorations, and everything between them - arches with headstones adorn openings, and the carved doors made of oak... ...I thought of the impressive, magical, and beautiful authentic architecture, which, if it could talk, would probably say that there were no lava rocks in Gaza... ...We went inside. On one side there was the olive press that still exuded the aroma of olive oil, so unusual amongst the many other smells of war. Adjacent was a touristy boutique with clay pots and small pieces of Hebron glass, not yet dusty, on the wooden shelves in the niches... ...In the inner courtyard at the heart of the complex was a huge palm tree, with its trunk in a pool which had served until recently as a source of life, typical of Muslim climatic awareness, just as we were taught in the Bezalel Academy Department of Architecture... as if in a parallel universe, which I call, the "real life"... ...We were like dreamers...human beings lived here, worked and loved what they created. Testimonies to life were still discerned in every corner: a well-equipped kitchen - proof that it had belonged to a lover of cooking. Pictures on the walls, children’s toys, there, as on the seashore, which begins in Rosh Hanikra and ends in the Gaza Strip, no matter who planned it, who built it or who demolished it..." It was this built-in conflict between the planned and random that helped this pair of architects to define over the years what is truly "organic architecture". צוות רוזן ליננברג אדריכלים במשרד באודים
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