• Client: Etz Chaim A.P.

    Site: 7.65 hectares, Jerusalem

    Program: 36,500 square meters residential apartments, hotel, offices, and public amenity, and associated parking.

    Status: Under Construction

  • Client: Mitcham Machane Yehuda, KIACH

    Site: 5.42 hectares, Jerusalem

    Program: 38,400 square meters residential apartments, hotel, retail, public amenity, and associated parking.

    Status Under Construction

Etz Chaim-Kiach, Jerusalem

Beyond the old  walls of Jerusalem, the combined Etz Chaim -  Kiach development transforms urban life in the center of the city. ​

Immediately adjacent to the Machaneh Yehuda market, stretching between Jaffa Road and Agrippas Street, its interlocking courtyards and gardens facilitate the flow of pedestrians into and out of the busy Shuk.​

The pedestrian ways thus established, are precisely responsive to the pattern of streets and alleyways in the surrounding neighborhoods.

There are multiple points of ingress from proximate light rail stations and bus stops.

Buildings important to the history of the city, dating from the late 19th century are enfolded in gardens and courtyards, their scale respected, their function renewed.​

They are the foci of the project’s public spaces.  

The Gan Yeladim  Building, dating from 1890, was the first kindergarten built outside the walls of the Old City. ​

The famous Etz Chaim Yeshiva, within which many venerated sages distinguished themselves, grew organically from this institution.

This small 19th Century building was carefully braced and held up in place while the complex of buildings was built up around it.

The Kiach building, built by the Alliance Francais educational organization, through the beneficence of Clara de Hirsch, was boldly conceived and durably built. Its plain rectangularity is the form around which the project’s varied courtyards are arranged. ​

This building now serves as an hotel, with a lively commercial space at its base. Its inner courtyard, pure of form, has become the major interior public space of the entire complex. 

Buildings important to the history of the city, dating from the late 19th century are enfolded in gardens and courtyards, their scale respected, their function renewed.

The interconnected buildings have each their own entrance. The many shop openings extend the outdoor public space into individually interpreted private realms.  

The towers are rooted in Jerusalem, from stone finishes to skyline.

A multiplicity of uses, including two hotels, multi-level shopping, quiet gardens and busy courtyards, link together in a seamless continuum of urban life. The primary permanent population of the complex is accommodated in carefully laid out residential apartments with associated public amenities, including kindergartens and youth facilities.

Colonnaded street fronts, inviting pedestrian passages and tree-shaded courtyards shape the outdoor spaces of the project. 

Complementary to the Shuk’s intensity of use, the residential towers house a substantial and diverse population in carefully laid-out apartments of varying size.

The residential towers are arranged in concert to emphasize the spaces between them. In their asymmetry, each presents the hidden face of the other. 

With its rich mosaic of uses, the combined Etz Chaim – Kiach complex amplifies residential life in the center of the city center and enhances the vitality of the Shuk.

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