Operation Vision
Museum Gallery
Important to reconstruct history attaching the historical and religious interpretations together in a seamless and intelligible form based on archaeological evidence from each era – Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Mamluk and Ottoman period.
Given DAC’s geographical space at the midpoint of Christian processions, its potential to serve as a ‘pit stop’ for pilgrims on the Stations of the Cross to absorb, reflect, and understand before embarking to the next site.
To provide an iconic space for exhibitions, art, and connecting Old City artistic expression to the world.
Media and xR Studio
To encourage media production in the Old City and provide communication outlets for residents.
The Media Studio is a media production environment offering a controlled and professionally lighted and soundproofed space for the production of a wide range of media.
This product offers the physical context for professional media recording, with the users bringing their own production equipment (except in the case of rentals). It also offers space for production teams to collaborate on pre and post-production activities.
Tourist Center
To be a robust marketing engine for the DAC in which public access to the building is free of charge but money is charged for proprietary features, functionality, or services. This is closely “networked” with other functions in the DAC and would bring business to many, while supplementing operating costs through donations.
Retail and shopping space
To showcase high quality items that reflect Palestinian culture, aspirations, and ingenuity – enabling local artisans, artists, and craftsmen & women to create and market locally made products.
These retail opportunities are distributed around Dar al-Consul in conjunction with key installations and identity markers, offering a small number of high-value, high-quality products that are directly evocative of the DAC’s brand and broader mission.
Productivity space
To be an innovative, modern, tech-enabled, collaborative, co-working space, located in the heart of the Old City, offering a mix of hot-desks, shared workstations, and semi-enclosed workrooms, where entrepreneurs, startups, freelancers, and creative professionals can work, collaborate, learn, engage, and thrive.
It acts as a space for both individual and group productivity events thanks to its flexible space plan and furniture, from conducting small gatherings and corporate retreats to training activities and the DAC’s partners’ career service activities. The Productivity Space is closely “networked” with the Bistro space, being placed in the same space and serviceable by the same food service setup.
Hospitality
To offer the only comfortable, up-to-date, fully-serviced hospitality experience in the Old City, immersed within an iconic and engaging site.
Full Service Bakery and Food Fest
A full-service, high-price to luxury dining experience with a strong and expressed culinary identity that builds on and experiments with elements of Palestinian cuisine in contemporary arrangements and styles. Alcohol, particularly wines, should be available.
Limited Service Dining (Bistro)
Inspired, bright, colorful, casual, unpretentious yet chic Bistro, brasserie, and cafe, that is youthful and serves mid-priced, chef-made, fresh and healthy food with a contemporary style.
To be the only bistro/restaurant that is housed in a historic building within a living culture and immersed in history, offering chef-inspired homegrown gourmet cuisine with specific dedicated meal courses and local culinary talents.
It will offer unique, locally-inspired culinary expressions and historic interior elements that create a transformative experience steeped in tradition yet experimental.
Career Services
The Productivity Space will provide a career training space for external training partners to operate, leveraging proximity to the DAC’s entrepreneurial and commercial activity.
The Career Services are closely “networked” with the calendar of events, as job and employer fairs will be part of the planned events.
Enterprise Support
The Productivity Space will provide an enterprise support space for external training partners to operate, leveraging proximity to the DAC’s entrepreneurial and commercial activity, as well as ancillary services like catering and equipment.
To provide infrastructure and services to local startups and small businesses, and become a hub for entrepreneurship in East Jerusalem and beyond.
Events Space
To host a self-sustaining, sponsored, and community-focused calendar of events that take place in or around the DAC and feature multiple occasions, varied in type and format, can be reserved and rented either in whole or in part to host a variety of private events.
Also tapping into the latent cultural energy of East Jerusalem by providing practice and performance space for artists and performers.
Tours
To be a robust marketing engine for the DAC in which public access to the building is free of charge but money is charged for proprietary features, functionality, or services. This is closely “networked” with other functions in the DAC and would bring business to many, while supplementing operating costs through donations.
