Beth Sholom By Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects in San Francisco, CA, USA

Beth Sholom exterior facade 01

Beth Sholom exterior facade 02

Beth Sholom interior bench

Beth Sholom interior glass wall

Beth Sholom interior seating area

Design for a place starting with the creation of sacred space, a circular space, focused on Bimah center where the services are performed. A piece of sky on the ceiling turned into eternal light above the ark in the East Wall. A shadow menorah movement animates the wall track sun throughout the day and illuminated at night. All the light entering the room from above with a view to the sky to create a sense of purity and remove in the midst of noise and bustle of the city. The walls and the ceiling floats above connected with light. In the two buildings are placed to form the base of the page. One of them is a rock shelter, a boat floating in the air, the other a glowing cube housing a social space. The second building, coated with zinc, containing the social hall, which opened to the court. This marks the corner with such a thin slice of the tower. The building, in contrast to the masonry sanctuary, the reflective and light.

Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects