בטופנא

The "Battoufna" project is located In Sahel el-Battouf (Al-Battouf Valley). An agricultural landscape located in the heart of the lower Galilee. The valley characterized by an uneven distribution of resources as well as nature transformation, as the national water carrier crosses its fields for the purpose of providing water for irrigation in the south, leaving the fields around it unirrigated, in addition to winter floods that damage the valley's crops and infrastructure, and the states refusal to provide a drainage system for preservation purposes. all this has caused the valley to become neglected over the years as more and more people have stopped cultivating their lands. The project delves into two contrasting contexts " agricultural development" and "nature preservation". The project tries to find a solution to balance between these two concepts. The purpose of the project is to establish a visitor's center that creates economic growth for the farmers, so that landowners and their families return to cultivate their lands, preserving the area's historic identity and heritage. In addition to enriching the ecological diversity through an architectural approach that preserves and strengthens the natural habitat of endangered species without disturbing the existing landscape.