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Ramot Polin

Ramot Polin

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Ramot Polin, by architect Zvi Hecker, is a unique project located in Ramot, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The project was built after the Six-Day War in an attempt to settle Jerusalem in the occupied territories, while trying to create new forms of communal housing that would stand out from the common housing projects of that time in Israel.

The photographic work deals with the connection between the inside and the outside, and the way people deal with this kind of unique and unusual architecture. At the same time, it looks at ultra-Orthodox Jewish homes from the inside and how their residents choose to design them.

Over the years, tenants have made changes to the structure of the original apartments, trying to get around the inconvenient structure.

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