Berlin, 2023
Photo © HG Esch

Adjacent to the site of the Chabad Lubavitch Family and Cultural Centre, the community centre Pears Jewish Campus Berlin is a facility for children and young people consisting of a school, a crèche, and a kindergarten.

Video © Lev Chestakov

Constructed in masonry and concrete, the building immediately catches the eye with its colourfulness and materiality. This is where its name, “The Blue House’, comes from.

Photo © HG Esch
© Sergei Tchoban

The organically curved new school building is reminiscent of a Torah scroll and is embedded in a green school garden with a variety of open spaces for different uses.

Photo © HG Esch
© Sergei Tchoban

The walls of the school’s main entrance are adorned with two kabbalistic trees of life – light installations by the Berlin artist Anna Nezhnaya.

Photo © HG Esch
Photo © HG Esch
Photo © Roland Halbe
Photo © HG Esch

The two-storey multi-purpose hall on the third floor can be used flexibly for sports activities but also for cultural events and religious celebrations. The concrete wall on the street side shows graffiti by the Berlin street artist TOBO.

Photo © Klemens Renner
Photo © Roland Halbe
Photo © Roland Halbe
Photo © HG Esch