架构师提供的文本描述。Mikve是犹太宗教中净化的仪式浴。它可以潜水在淡水，或在一个专门致力于它的地方，由雨水喂养，必须收集，储存和沟通的船只，被称为Mikve。所有这些都必须根据与水的纯度有关的一套非常严格的规则来制定。这些规则还包括使用材料、建筑措施和水处理。

Text description provided by the architects. The Mikve is the ritual bath of purification in the Jewish religion. It is possible diving in fresh spring water, or in a place specially dedicated to it, fed by rainwater that must be collected, stored and communicated to the vessel that is called a Mikve. All this must be made under a very strict set of rules related to the degree of purity of water. These rules also include the use of materials, architectural measures and water treatment.

Mikveh主要由妇女每月使用一次，而新娘则主要用于皈依和某些假日。还有一个Mikveh，用于净化厨房和食品的所有成分。

The Mikveh is mostly used by women once a month, and for the brides to be, for conversions and certain holidays. There is also a Mikveh used for the purification of all elements of kitchen and food preparation.

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mikveh代表子宫，所以当一个人进入游泳池，它就像回到它，当它出现的时候，就像重生一样。这样，你就得到了一个全新的净化状态。

Mikveh is known to represent the womb, so when a person enters the pool, it's like to return to it, and when it emerges, as if reborn. In this way, you get a totally new and purified condition.

它的象征性同时代表了一个墓穴，因此不能在浴缸里进行仪式浴，而必须直接建在地下。这一事实在很大程度上说明了米克维人的子宫，同时也说明了她的坟墓，这并不是一个矛盾，因为这两个地方都是你可以呼吸的地方，同时也是生命周期的终点。

Its symbolism represents at the same time, a tomb, therefore, can not be performed the ritual bath in a tub, but must be built directly into the ground. The fact that illustrates the Mikveh much as the woman's womb and at the same time as the grave, becomes not a contradiction, since both are places where you can breathe, and at the same time are endpoints of the cycle of life.

这个项目对我们有着特殊的意义。20年前我们设计了Mikve。拉杰尔，这是第一个“设计的”Mikve，有其他这样的地方，但不是非常幸运，肮脏和被忽视，社区成员不再去，仪式是不明智的，这是犹太宗教是最重要的。

This project has a special meaning for us. 20 years ago we designed Mikve. Rajel, it was the first "designed" Mikve, there were other such places but not very fortunate, dirty and neglected, community members were not going any longer, and the ritual was dissapearing, which according to the Jewish religion is the most important.

 lower floor plan

低层平面图

在设计成人礼瑞秋的时候，我们真的不知道它的实际使用会产生什么样的后果，这件事是如何展开的。它是如此的成功，以至于所有的社区都开始建造他们自己的Mikves，但不仅仅是神秘的空间，他们似乎就像豪华的温泉浴场。

When designing the mikvah Rachel we really did not know which would be the consequences of its actual use, how the event was to going to unfold. It was so successful that all the communities began to make their own Mikves, but more than mystical spaces they seemed like luxury spas.

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20年后的今天，我们意识到，新娘的婚礼成了一场盛大的庆祝活动，没有足够的空间提供所有的帮助，而且20年的使用也受到建筑潮流的影响，这一时刻让我们失去了时间，所以我们必须摧毁它，以创造一个新的方案，以满足不断变化的需求，无论是审美还是使用。

Today 20 years later we realize that the event for the brides becomes a big celebration, and that there was not room for all the assistance, plus 20 years of use is also influenced by architectural trends of the moment puts it out of time and so we have to destroy it to create a new proposal that meets the changing needs , both aesthetic and use.

接待处变成了一个白色的大盒子，象征着纯洁。没有柱子，只有精致的天然铝制垂直梁和白色玻璃，桑托托马斯大理石的地板，现代光滑的白色沙发，把墙壁挂起，打开天花板，这是艺术家索尔的壁画。

The reception becomes a big box of white light, suggesting purity., No columns just delicate natural aluminum vertical beams and white glass, floors in Santo Tomas marble, modern and sleek white sofas and starring up the wall and turning on the ceiling, a mural of the artist Saul.

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大楼周围的走廊可以进入洗澡间，从这些走廊到Mikve，它必须是一个独立的通道和出口，因为你进入纯粹的、纯粹的，与地板上的黑暗、墙壁和白色天花板形成鲜明对比，增强了视觉戏剧和隐伏照明的效果。

The corridors around the building giving access to washing bathrooms and from these in to the Mikve, it must be a separate access and exit, as you enter impure and exit pure, , contrasting the dark on the floor and walls and ceilings in white enhancing the visual drama with recesed lighting .

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浴室是在桑托的大理石衬里的。托马斯未抛光的白色玻璃，不锈钢家具和阿拉贝斯卡托大理石，从这里我们进入Mikve，高大的空间与山墙屋顶是收集的水，用于仪式。库萨鲁木镶板，大理石地板和圣托马斯内衬游泳池。

The bathrooms are marble-lined in Santo. Thomas unpolished and polished white glass, stainless steel furniture and Arabescato marble, from here we enter to the Mikve, tall space with a gable roof of which is collected water to be used in the ritual. Cumaru wood paneling, marble floors and St. Thomas lined pool.