The world’s oldest continuously inhabited city is now home to a curious new structure. AAU Anastas and Laboratoire GSA built and designed a giant stone arch in Jericho that combines ancient building materials with digital fabrication. The piece, titled Stone Matters, is the first prototype and module of the city’s el-Atlal artists and writers residency building. Echoing the region’s ancient construction techniques, Stone Matters was built as a stone vault that deviates from its predecessors...
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