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Research

Rediscovering the White City

Tel- Aviv 2022

The story of the old cities in Israel is a story of a complex encounter between different architectural periods and principles. In the same city you can find ancient neighborhoods with narrow alleys and professional Arab stone buildings, alongside construction from the British Mandate period that brought with it the island urban block alongside oriental nostalgia, in another city we can find a garden neighborhood with eclectic houses of the early twentieth century, alongside pioneering and sharp modernism and experimental Brutalism. What all those residential neighborhoods have in common is that they still manage to maintain an urban life with markets.

Focusing on the concept "Contemporary Residential Heritage", I decided to study and observe the White City in Tel Aviv which I was mostly intrigued by. They are an experiment to distill the architectural qualities that give each neighborhood its unique urban character, such as the balconies, the column floor, the greenery, the entrance and many more components that in my work I tried to discover. Elements that articulate the way of life in the building itself and give the living environment its character.

Project Principles

Observe Analys and disassemble Implement and Design

Focusing on the urban block in the White City, an area surruonded by four historical streets, each with its own character : Balfour, Rothschild, Shienkin and Melchett

Street sections emphasize the different atmosphere that each streets offers

Analysing by urban elemnts

Rothschild

Shienken

Balfour Malchett

by deconstructing the physical elemnts of the White city block.

Reconstructing by gathering all the elements and creating a detailed superposition. We Rediscover the characteristics of a rich urban area.

A tool which will help us in planning process.

A pre intervintion plan showing what to keep and what to demolish

An intervintion plan. Implementing the tool

Residental buildings in a small street

Residental buildings in a main street

Residental buildings with commercial

Axonometric views showing a new urban life of the neighborhood

A detailed intervintion plan. Befor intervintion

After intervintion

02

1:1

Therapeutic Greenhouse

Kibbutz Mahanayim 2022

Studio 1:1 is a themed studio for third year architecture students, within the project a group of students plan a joint project and finally build it. Each semester a different site is chosen around the country, and during the studio in which I participated we were chosen to design in Kibbutz Mahaniim. We had to propose a new design for an existing greenhouse that belongs to the association Ha'dan in the Galilee, which is an association from the kibbutz that helps people with physical and mental disabilities.

The users of the project are the families in the Kibbutz, kids, elderly, tourists and mainly the disabled members of the association, which means that every detail in the planning was calculated and adapted to their needs.

The greenhouse which was presented to us, was old, messy and unused for a decade. in was built for the purpose of taking care of people with mental and physical disabilities through therapeutic work in the green house.

We as architecture students were given the opportunity to bring back the greenhouse alive with its basic and main purpose but in a more sustainable way of design which is suitable for the struggles that these people face. to make them feel more engaged with everyday life with motivation and enjoyment, most importantly to make them feel part of their community.

Project Principles

The greenhouse is located in Kibbutz Mahaniym, in the north bellow main road 91

1:50 detailed plan of the new green house, it offer a new functional use to the green house including working spaces and a semi open big gathering space.

Sections of the new green house showing the way the design of the green house is integrated with the surrounded landscapse. we let the nature in and use it as a ramp for the disabled and as seats for the visitors

The landscape and the green house are inseparable, together creating an inviting spacious open space.

A photograph taken from the outside showing an accessible ramp from concrete leading to the inner part of the green house, with a seating area made from cages filled with rocks with wooden finish surrounding a preserved young fig tree.

Reviving Idroscalo

Ostia, Rome 2023

In this year for the first time, a collaboration was made with the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza, for the construction of the 2024 arena. we had to develop, as part of the event, a project totally integrated into the territory and landscape urban pursuing and emphasizing even more the idea of what the Punta Sacra- Idroscalo project symbolically represents: a cultural garrison, a symbol of resistance, a means of enhancing the natural and social context.

"The village of the Idroscalo" is an area of approximately 2000 inhabitants located in the northwest side of Ostia Lido, on the shoreline. Being surrounded by the harbor, natural preserve and the industrial area make it isolated from the city Ostia.

Seizing the movie festival event as an opportunity to attract locals and tourists, simultaneously, empowering the neighborhood economically and as a separate entity by using a temporary simple disassembling and multipurpose system, which will appear in different forms and concentrations during the festival and will even be used by the residents in random events throughout the year.

Project Principles

Reserving the neighborhoods identity as a separate entity

Enriching main axes with communal and public

Hierarchies of interventions

Secondary

Minor

Being surrounded by the harbor, natural preserve and the industrial area make it isolated from the city Ostia.

Main Intervention Communal & Festival Area

Intervention Entrance Area

Intervention Inner Piazzas

1:200 Plan for the minor intervention in leading way to Idroscalo with a new designed bus station to welcome the visitors during the festival

1:200 Plan for the secondary intervention inside the village specially in piazzas in which we saw potential for a gathering space between the locals and the visitors

A day view to one of the Piazzas, the different elemnts give it a new funcionality which people can enjoy

1:50 Plan for the main interventio, designing the base of the plateform on which the main event will occur. It's devided to communal area (right plan) and the screening area (left plan)

A day view to the communal area of the main intervention

04

Urban Joints Holon 2021

In our project we chose to focus on the Dov Hoz station located in the northwest of Holon. The station is located at the intersection of two metropolitan traffic axes, the horizontal axis runs from east Holon to the west and is considered one of the three axes connecting with Bat Yam. The station area is a junction that connects four old neighborhoods of Holon, each of which has a different neighborhood character.

During the analyzing process, we have found that the site has hidden treasures with potential for urban renewal. First, the proximity to Bat Yam - there is a direct bridge connecting Bat Yam and Holon. second, a character with a presence and a main avenue with local commerce. However, in a place like this we also found many shortcomings and they needed immediate attention. Such as: lack of shading, older population, and lack of public places!

The place has the potential to become a center that serves pedestrians, the future metro station will bring with it a large number of visitors and new residents, and the green network that we propose will soften the enormous burden and make the place environmentally friendly and pleasant for pedestrians. We believe that the network that connects the existing and proposed new urban hubs will improve the existing urban framework, make the place more inviting and vibrant, and above all, reduces the need for traffic.

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Project Principles

encouraging walkability

connecting green network

Reservation, Intensifying and detecting urban centers

connection with the metropoline axes, and strengthening connection

overwhole Analysis for the intervention area. The station is located at the intersection of two metropolitan traffic axes, the horizontal axis runs from east Holon to the west and is considered one of the three axes connecting with Bat Yam.

Existing Situation - Four neighnorhoos that were developed around focal points, but due to population growth became unaccessible and eventually neglected, also the lack of shading made it harder

Examining Walkability - In order to regain the accessability an examination was made and changes were implemented

existing paths

proposed paths sidewalks

proposed private paths

Examining openspaces - this area lacks of space for the public, by adding more greenspaces in the right places we create a green net which connects the public space and the focal points to encourage the walkability

proposed greenspaces

proposed publicspaces

A proposed plan - gives a new opportunity to revive the city with much more convenient and welcoming paths for the user in a new urban atmosphere with stronger structure

Iconic skyscraper - 60 skyscraper - 50 levels organic shape builings20/30 levels builings along the boulevard- 15 levels

proposed plan 1:1000

planning according to street axes

defining the boulevard reserving the existing builings in boulevard

A day view in the Dov Hoz boulverd

street section 1:250

proposed plan 1:250

Focal two|New metro area

planning according to street axes

adding greenspaces organic planning

street section 1:250

A day view outside of the new metro station

proposed plan 1:250

A day view outside of the bridge connecting between Holon and BatYam

planning according to street axes Focal three|Dov Hoz interchange

defining the city entrance walking friendly spaces

proposed plan 1:250

MetaStudio is an architecture education platform where the students are exposed to a new way of presenting their projects. Unlike other studios where the studio space is designed as a working area. The project suggest a new definition for the studio space, while acknowledging the importance of physical presence in the studio, the project divided the studio into two different Places : Workspace and Gallery, Physical And Virtual.

MetaStudio expand its boarders to the Virtual world by creating a Virtual Space designed especially for presenting the works done in the physical work area. the two worlds are linked by the social side of the studio, the discussion room where the virtual and the physical meets.

Project Principles

Learning from each other Expanding our horizons Unlimited space for expressing ourself

hybrid virtual

hybrid physical

An axonometric digram showing the diagram showing the connection between the hybrid physical world with the hybrid

physical person in the physical world

virtual person in the virtual world

physical person in the virtual world virtual person in the physical world

A designed working unit for an individual architecture student

Proposed plans- Hybrid physical

Section- Hybrid physical

A view showing the interactions inside the hybrid physical pavi lion

A view showing the interactions in connects between the two worldvirtual

The working unit turns into a presentation unit in which the student shares and presents his/her projects in the virtual gallery

Proposed plans- Hybrid Virtual

A view showing the interactions inside the hybrid virtual pavil ion the main meeting room which worldvirtual pavilion

Section- Hybrid Virtual

Building Technologies

Heicht Part, Haifa 2023

For this project we were asked to choose an area to plan a public closed space With an emphasis on the journey the users take while experiencing the space.

The chosen plannig area was Heicht park in Haifa. its a very active area, people come to the park during the day and have a walk next to the shore. The users vary, from kids to eldery, disabbled or moms with baby carrier, they come for the porpuse of joyment, relaxation, be outside and working out. Thus, offering a plan for a new mouseum would be integrated easily and most importantly would arouse curiosity amoung the users.

In this project we focused on the connection between the different elements, together creating a simple yet experiential journey.

Project Principle

An underground approchable museum that doesn't block the view to the sea and integrates with the environment

The chosen area: heicht park in Haifa, located between the shore and the train tracks

The museum consists five levels, one level above the ground and the rest underground. Also it includes three systems of movement: ramps, stairs and elevator

A top view of the underground museum, with the skylights indecating the museums general shape

A view inside the museum showing the main movement element: designed ramps with skylight leading the way

segment 1- 10% incline

segment 2- 10% incline

Detail 1: connection between ramp and upper floor level

Detail 2: connection between ramp and concrete wall

Datail 3: connection ramp and railing

Detail 4: connection between railing and concrete wall

Detail 5: connection between steel poles in the railing

Detail 1: connection between plaster slabs and concrete wall

Detail 2: stair reinforcing

Detail 3: railing and led lightening

Traffic Square

Kfar Kama is a small Circassian village of approximately 4000 residents which now days is growing and more lands are being built on. As part of its new outline plan new streets and neighborhoods are being added. furthermore, in recent years the village have become a touristic site and has launched an initiative for the preservation and exposure of the unique Circassian culture. The council established the Circassian Heritage Centre as a tourism center that also serves as a museum and heritage preservation site in the village. The center holds festivals and cultural events which attract more than 30,000 visitors per year.

In order to strength the Circassian culture and make memorable presence for our lost heritage, the council of Kfar Kama asked me as a Circassian who studied architecture to design the new traffic square that is located in the entrance of the village, with a sculpture that symbolizes the unity of the Circassian people living in Israel and all over the world.