MArch Architecture Unit 18
18.7 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2013
18.8 Fig. 18.5 Anis Wan Kamaruddin, Y5, The Essene Temples of Purity. In the quest for purity away from the politics of the sacred and an increasing anthropocentricity within Jerusalem, a cluster of Essene Temples slowly emerges from the receding Dead Sea. A section through the first level of ritual baths (mikveh) reveals the physical transformation it goes through as the water level recedes. The shape allows it to hold water long after it is fully exposed, allowing for crystallisation to take place, and for it to become a bath. Fig. 18.6 Anis Wan Kamaruddin, Y5, The Essene of Purity. The descent into the Room of Feasts sits below a sequence of reading rooms overlooking the sacred space – its shape influencing the eventual crystallisation that will form on its underside, adorning the space below. Descent into the room is possible only when the cluster has completed
its Jubilee cycle and the space is fully revealed. Fig. 18.7 Anthony D’Auria, Y4, Amharic Language Institute. A hybrid materiality of 3D-printed bullets blasted into a concrete substrate encrypts recollections of the gruelling exodus of the Beta Israel people from Ethiopia to Israel. Encrusted bullets plug into the inner façade and act as expulsion vents for eclectic formwork secreted within the mass of the building. Fig. 18.8 Anthony D’Auria, Y4, The Exodus of the Beta Israel. The language institute explores the social, cultural and linguistic displacement of the Beta Israel people by proposing a piece of cultural infrastructure to combat the gradual erosion and decline of their native Amharic Language in Jerusalem.
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