Warde is an interactive urban installation in Jerusalem’s Vallero Square, designed to improve a neglected public space by introducing play, scale, and responsiveness into the everyday urban experience.

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Located at a chaotic junction split by the tram line and filled with infrastructural clutter, the project doesn’t attempt to erase the disorder — but to stitch the space together through fantastical design. Four oversized inflatable flowers are placed throughout the square, visible from surrounding streets and the nearby market. Each flower reacts independently to movement: inflating when people pass by, offering shade in summer, and deflating as they leave. When a tram approaches, all four flowers inflate simultaneously — signaling movement and animating the space in sync with urban rhythms. Warde transforms a fragmented square into an urban pocket of delight — blending function and fantasy to create a new kind of public infrastructure that responds to people, place, and time.