HAIFA
2018
600sqm
The new Technion visitors center has been built next to the old visitors center on the Mount Carmel ridge in Haifa. Submitting a bid required planning a space that would provide an exceptional experience for visitors and serve as a representative platform for the Technion’s accomplishments and trailblazing achievements.
Collaboration with Disk – In Pro and Nadav Hazut
The center’s core revolves around an octagonal-shaped space, covered with large black stone tiles that give it a dramatic volume in the open expanse. In this design concept, the octagon represents the Technion as a platform that enrichesthe students, lecturers, researchers, and world leaders who pass through it, allowing themto achieve a ‘eureka moment’ and bring new discoveries and inventions to the world.
Exiting the exhibit to the main gallery, visitors are exposed to several elements that continue the experience described in the octagon. At the eureka moment ofdiscovery, the octagon “resonates ” the space around it and creates a wall that has absorbed the “shock wave” from the creative moment. The concrete wall creates animpression of meteor crystals frozen in place,leavingbehind them moments of drama.
We chose to sculpt the map of the Technion’s various sections and place it at the entrance to the center. In the middle, we inserted a wide touch screen that enables visitors to navigate around the Technion interactively.
