We designed Lay of the Land for the Israeli Pavilion at HABITAT III — the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development held in Quito, Ecuador in 2016 — as a participatory exploration of urban form and spatial preference.

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Covering 40 sq.m., the pavilion walls became a scaled cityscape built from a mix of Israeli urban typologies. Visitors were invited to select a figure and place it on the wall, marking where they would choose to live. Over time, the installation became a visual map — a collective survey of urban desire and spatial imagination. By turning the exhibition space into a collaborative model of the city, Lay of the Land reframed static display into an evolving dialogue between people and place.