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A brand new urban narrative: a semi-holy semi-secular pilgrimage adventure towards the Holy Tomb of The Mothers in Tiberias
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Legends, rites and cityscape: narrating the plan of Tiberias as a spatial process between seven existing Jewish holy tombs
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Summer of lovers in Tiberias: the urban adventure begins with the journey to the Holy Tomb of The Mothers, a tomb that legends tell it has the power to bless believers with love, prosperity and pregnancy
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The Flea Market: first stop on the way towards the Holy Tomb of The Mothers, we'd better dress up !
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The Garden of Lovers: on the way to the Holy Tomb of The Mothers we take a break to smell the flowers. Would we offer a flower to our loved one?
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The Sex Hotel: The last stop before one arrives to the Holy Tomb of The Mothers incarnates in the act of making love
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A catalog of all seven holy tombs of Tiberias
Between Decadence and Holy Tombs: A Pilgrim's Adventure in Tiberias
HAGAÏ BEN NAÏM. Tiberias, Israel
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Name of work in English
Between Decadence and Holy Tombs: A Pilgrim's Adventure in Tiberias
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Name of work in original language
A wondrous journey through a peripheral Israeli city
Prize year
Young Talent 2016
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Work Location
Tiberias, Israel
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Author/s
HAGAÏ BEN NAÏM
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School
National School of Architecture Paris Malaquais - University Paris Sciences & Lettres.
Paris, France
Young Talent 2016 YT Nominees
Between Decadence and Holy Tombs: A Pilgrim's Adventure in Tiberias
A wondrous journey through a peripheral Israeli city
Program
Urban planning
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Labels
Public Space · Heritage
Can architecture tell a story? What does it mean to narrate space? Could the sacred and the everyday life merge? The above questions are the main thrust of the project, as it emphasizes the urban and social potential of contemporary pilgrimage movements in the peripheral Israeli city of Tiberias.
This project is an extension of both a professional as well as a personal research, investigating local identities in Israeli architecture. In this quest, I have visited peripheral areas across the country, seeking to understand what occurs beyond the consensus of the Israeli urban triangle: Tel Aviv - Jerusalem - Haifa. The marginal communities, poor and forgotten by the government as well as the architectural institution, were my source of inspiration and a reference for an indigenous culture, social as well as architectural. The motivation to reveal the matter and the beauty of these marginal communities and what it could offer to contemporary Israeli society and culture, has allowed me the opportunity to ask key questions about the socio-cultural function of urban space and how else it could be organised, planned and imagined than the current conventions and norms of contemporary urban design.