A site-specific intervention on the building by a local resident
"3 Km Europe" reads a writing on a house between the Peace centre and the new, gentrified side of Jaffa
The Peace House, whose building began in 2005, is now almost completed
The idea of the Peace House was originally launched by the late Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres. Named after the latter, it’s part of the seafront redevelopment of the mixed city of Jaffa and was designed by Massimiliano Fuksas as a dramatic spacial progression of pale green concrete slabs interspersed by glass panes, which offer an unconstrained view on the open sea – in the words of the Italian architect “a symbol of the state of emergency”.
Text and photography © Gabriele Oropallo, 2009.