THE PAVILION is a DesignBuild summer studio at the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. The studio focuses on the process of making and experimenting with materials as the driving force of architectural design. It aims to explore workshop-based design methodologies, while working on natural materials with algorithmic-design procedures and digital fabrication. The learning process of designers and architects is significantly enhanced through "hands-on" engagement with the realization of full-scale prototype structures through which they can test spatial ideas and attain a deep phenomenal understanding of their design. This year we are using natural branches from around Jerusalem which were trimmed by the municipality through gardening routines. The branches were 3D scanned and indexed to serve as a raw material for the construction of the pavilion.  The studio is a collaboration between the Architecture Department at Bezalel, Casali Instutute for Applied Chemistry, Jerusalem Municipality, Negev Ecology LTD, and Nesher Cement industries LTD.