The plate in brief

The Hosh starts from an old Levantine form, the courtyard house, and stacks it. Picture six to eight storeys of limestone around a living courtyard with a tree at its heart: narrow wings so every home gets light and cross-breeze, deep loggias you can actually sit in, and a solar canopy over the roof. The structure is built to last. The infill panels between the frames are made to be replaced.

The working brief is twenty to thirty homes and fifty to eighty people on a site of 900 to 1,200 square meters. Those numbers are illustrative, a starting point and not a promise. The same body then adapts to its city: thermal mass and seasonal sun in Jerusalem, sea breeze and deep shade in Haifa, a sheltered hosh and winter warmth in Hebron.

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