The new campus of Jerusalem’s historic Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, established in 1906, provides a new state-of-the-art educational complex and a creative hub for the city, that will cater for approximately 2,500 students and 500 faculty members. The site of the new campus for the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is located on the top of a hill next to the Russian Compound, overlooking the old city of Jerusalem.

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The Academy is made up of nine departments, each with studios, classrooms, and workshops. The building will also house the administration offices and public areas such as galleries, a store, a cafeteria. To promote interaction and communication between departments, the programs are placed on slabs stacked in a staggered manner. From each slab, students can see the other departments and activities above, below, and across in hopes to inspire multidisciplinary projects, new ideas, and friendships. Ample room is reserved around each program to allow natural light and fresh to enter from above and from the sides, filtering into even the most central part of the building. Once a year, these open spaces are filled with student works to showcase their achievement to visitors.

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