Jisr az-Zarqa is the only Arab Muslim city in Israel that is located at the coastline of the Mediterranean-sea. The city, most commonly referred to as a village, is one of the poorest most underprivileged cities, with unemployment rates that places Jisr at the top of the charts.

Keysariya is the residential city located close to the archeological site of the ruins of the ancient roman city of Caesarea-Maritima, approximately 400 meters south to Jisr az-Zarqa. The city of Keysariya is one of the wealthiest cities in Israel, hosting some of the most powerful citizens of Israel, including the private home to the current Prime Minister.

 

Whilst both Jisr and Keysariya have their own separate beaches at the coast of the Mediterranean, the meetings that never took place anywhere else, happened at the coastline. The tense and complex relationship that is formed between the residents of these two so very different cities, receives a new meaning, and become even more complex than ever before.

 

The streams flowing from east to west is not an abnormality, for the Mediterranean Sea is the Catchment area around the region. Perhaps the most intriguing fact is that the delta that is formed at the coastline of these two cities, is also the only place where the residents of Jisr az-Zarqa and their neighbors from the south, the city Keysariya, actually meet.

 

The new meetings accruing now between Jisr and Keysariya, happen in several convergence areas, to which the people coming from Jisr will have their own meaningful entrance, where as Keysariya and the visitors from the south would have their own unique path as well.

 

The compound is dug underground and is spread under the manmade hill that separates these two settlements.

Planning the midway between Jisr az-Zarqa and Keysariya, a few principals came together in alignment to forge the basis and first steps of planning the place.  Convergence areas, choice of path and choice of participation.

This new compound like the hill that resides on top, is a place for the "Space-In-between", a place allowing the subject a choice of pathway, taking part of something different or just watching from the side, choose to touch, or not. A multicultural space to giving a place a new meaning.