"Abandonment of buildings is an environmental, social, and political phenomenon that has been happening for millennia due to many different causes. The abandoned spaces function as urban dystopias – different, detached from the familiar daily reality, places that allegedly withstood the advance of time, and yet damage the urban space as a ""painful wound"" that cries for action and intervention. In this project, I seek to intervene in an abandoned building in the compound adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City walls while creating an area that reflects the city's history and identity and, at the same time, fits current urban culture. On the border between East and West, in the meeting point of the Old City and modern Jerusalem, the square will be an entryway into Old Jerusalem."