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Honorable Mention / Architecture: Human Environment

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The villages that emerged from the ashes The villages that emerged from the ashes The villages that emerged from the ashes The villages that emerged from the ashes The villages that emerged from the ashes The villages that emerged from the ashes The villages that emerged from the ashes The villages that emerged from the ashes
MATAN GOLAN

The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
The villages that emerged from the ashes
MATAN GOLAN
The villages that emerged from the ashes

Palestinian villages and agricultural terraces of Beit Umm-el Mis, Saris and Deir Amr, were destroyed on 48’ - exposed by the massive forest wildfire in Jerusalem mountains.

In August 2021, after a long and hot summer affected by global warming, a massive wildfire spread in the Jerusalem mountains. The fire had consumed 14,000 Dunams of the Pine Forest of the Martyrs, planted in 1951 in memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Pine forests were vastly planted in Israel's early days while conquering the arid landscape. Many Palestinian villages destroyed in 48’ are buried below the greenery.

A day after the fire was set off, I conducted a survey of British Mandate maps to identify the locations of Nakba-destroyed villages within the fire zone . I went to the field, to capture the impressive man-made landscape within the ash, awakened for the first time since 1951. The extent of the emerging terraces was astonishing. Terrace marbled mountain slopes.

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