The Pursuit of Locality
In present days, the ideals and values that once guided the construction projects of residential areas, as controversial as they may have been, have been replaced by market powers and profit making. The new neighborhoods built in the last two decades in Israel are all based on the same generic scheme of “Towers in the […]
Lev Chash Foundation
The “Lev Chash” Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the underprivileged, located in Hadar neighborhood in Haifa. Most of the foundation’s headquarters facilitate a second hand shop with subsidized items ranging from home electronics and furniture to clothes, and during the years has taken over more and more spaces in the building. The […]
Shavit Art Museum
Shavit cinema is a white elephant at the heart of a residential neighborhood. The project aspires to turn the cinema’s ruins into a center of urban activity and culture, that mediates the gap between the main road, Moriah Av., and the quiet neighborhood. The museum is based on the old cinema’s side aisles, while its […]
Origami Chair
User Defined Space
Space is Dynamic and ever changing, the way that people are dynamic and versatile from one another. Parc de la Villette (Tscumi, 1983, Paris) seeks to be a space without any concrete statement for the way one should use it. Thus by minimizing the signature of the planner. Superimposition of a number of layers, each […]
Between the Rocks
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Echo
Located in a place of intersection between faculties – Reflecting the meeting place of different movements.
Paper boats made from recycled variety of papae ( squared paper, print paper and sketching paper). Placed on wooden stocks to the floor. The floating boats allow for unplanned movement.
Urban Connection
Urban planning Focussing on Warburg St., the main street of the Krayot area, crossing it from north to south and connecting it the city of Haifa. The street lacked definition and did not fulfil is urban potential. The project gives Warburg new design and structure, while increasing its intensity.
The suggested typology defines the street and allows higher density of residential, commercial and business spaces, while leaving inside courtyard for the residents.
Loose Space
Using the Site’s qualities to create a place that is free, ever changing and limitless. A public space that is informal, fluid and inviting. Depending of time of day, this project can hold different activities, different crowds and different intensities. The project is acting as natural topography, and defines different spaces without any walls or physical borders.
Space Analog Research Station
3D printed wall elements usually include some sort of infill pattern hidden inside the wall, between two smoother lines. The infill is a crucial component of the wall, designed to strengthen it.
Since the main printing material is local sand from Makhtesh Ramon, the smooth clean line seemed out of context. The infill pattern hidden inside the wall is closer to the natural sand and stone walls of the crater the smoothness of the straight outer lines.
This new 3D printing technique exposes the infill pattern, thus giving the wall texture and volume. furthermore, it takes the infill’s structural qualities one step further, using it as construction by changing it’s thickness and density.
What once was behind the scenes has now become the main show, and plays two roles at the same time – giving the wall it’s texture, rhythm and volume while reinforcing itself.
The curvature shape of the walls and the mirror-like infill patterns further contributes to the structures’ stability.