PROJECT DETAILS

Ram Karmi / Ada Karmi-Melamede / Pelleg Associates: Student Residence, Ben Gurion University, 1973?–1976

  • Beersheba, Israel, Show on map
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  • Apartments of different sizes are provided for different study phases. From large communal apartments for 12–18 students for the early orientation phase, via medium-sized flats for 6–8, to ones for 2–4 inhabitants for students nearing graduation and needing more privacy and quiet.

    From the outside, the body resembles a fortress and its symbolism alludes to the bastion of knowledge over and above its functionalist alignment to student needs.

  • In part realized, in use, hardly any structural changes made, in good condition.