Market Roof in Jaffa
Jaffa, Israel · In construction, 2026
One long roof, four hundred metres of shade, and nothing else.
The market already worked. It only lacked shade and a reason to stay after five. We added a single perforated roof, then spent a year deleting everything else we had drawn.
Working with what already works
The stalls were surveyed for six weeks before a line was drawn. Nothing about the way vendors already used the alley was corrected.
main sequence — 4:3
main sequence — sketch
one long image, then one drawing. never two drawings in a row.
the best intervention here is 92% air.
Plan · diagram
Roof plan. The perforations follow the summer sun path, not a pattern.
Process · gallery
Reflection
The measure of success is that visitors will not notice the architecture — only that they stayed an hour longer than planned.