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1963–68 Himmelfarb Torani High
School, Jerusalem

Just across the Boyar High School the firm planned a
public-religious high school containing 24 classrooms
and labs, a synagogue, a dining hall with a kitchen,
a sports hall and a boarding house. The school was
designed as a cluster of classrooms surrounding a
central yard thus creating a “campus.” As in other of the
firm’s Jerusalem projects during that decade, here too
the campus buildings have uniform facades that follow
the natural topography and delineate a courtyard set on
the roofs of the lower level.

The straight horizontal lines are interrupted by
two vertical elements: the rounded staircase rising at the
center of the site, and the kitchen chimney. The most
outstanding building on the campus is the synagogue.
The firm had planned (though it was never executed) to
cover it with a floating roof comprising two slanted slabs,
that would have directed natural light into the prayer hall.

The buildings that comprise the school are
designed as rectangular boxes set one on top of the
other, each containing a classroom or hall. The buildings’
facades combine strips of bare concrete on top of each
floor, with natural stone cladding, echoed in the dark
gravel stone paving around the premises.

View of the entrance, 1968
1968 ,‫מבט אל הכניסה‬

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