International project
Kofinas
PRESERVED
For many years, the Documentation Committee of Tzur Moshe, Israel, sought
to create an honorable exhibit of its history. It was an old, abandoned
building that sparked the idea. A group of local entrepreneurs had a special
feeling about this specific building; they were born and raised in Tzur
Moshe, and believed it had a great potential.
T
he Documentation Committee and the entrepreneurs group decided
to cooperate and use the professional help of Ron Shenkin’s Studio for
the design and architecture of the building. Together they specified
and delineated guidelines to present both history and the present in
a harmonized way. The idea was a café, alongside a museum and a
documentation centre. After studying the building’s original 1940’s plans
and its history as a bakery, it was decided to preserve and restore the
original building, removing the new structural additions which had been
added over the years.
The structure
A welcoming room at the entrance displays different historical items, images and videos
from Tzur Moshe’s settlement period, and more current community information. In
addition, it was decided to provide computer stations for the use of the public for
browsing memorable documents and images.
BEFORE
All chairs and tables used at this space were designed so that they could be rearranged
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