Biennale Architettura 2014 – Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014. Israel An interview with Keren Yeala Golan and Roy Brand at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition (National Participation of Israel: “The Urburb”).

Venice Biennale 2014: Israel Explores The Urburb, a Neither Urban nor Suburban Landscape Neither urban nor suburban, the Urburb is a fragmented mosaic of one hundred years of modernist planning in Israel : early twentieth century garden-cities, mid-century social housing and generic, high-rise residential typologies of the past two decades. These residential mutations dominate the contemporary Israeli landscape, expanding and replacing existing textures, in an endless, repetitive cycle. The driving force in the planning and building of the new country was essentially anti-urban. From the first Jewish settlements of the nineteenth century, the city was never an option. The initial Sharon Master Plan from 1951 aimed at dislocating the urban centers and spreading the population into numerous readymade towns, often built in rural areas. These sparsely populated New Towns often adopted arbitrary building plans lacking any form of street life. The Sharon Plan attempted to accelerate a long-term historical process in one heroic decade. Indeed, over four hundred towns were quickly erected according to the Plan’s guidelines. This top-down approach is emblematic not only of the Zionist ideal of centralized planning, but also of the modernist desire to constantly reshape and reinvent the present. Israel’s hybrid landscape manifests the conflicting demands of the modernist machine: to create small egalitarian communities while accommodating large and diverse populations, to spread-out while closing in, and to reconnect to the land but through a planning system that treats the surface as a blank sheet of paper. Urburb, a neologism referring to the contemporary mesh of urban and suburban sprawl, is more than an architectural phenomenon, it is a state of mind and a form of life. Today, in the wake of one hundred years of modernism, it is time to explore its dynamics and understand the life it has fostered. The installation explores these themes not only through the data displayed but also through its performative affect. The visitor enters a modernist construction site, filled with automatic machines that sketch on sand, erase, and sketch again. Each scenario takes about three to five minutes, and every printer presents a few scenarios grouped under one theme—overplanning, evolution of buildings, pattern language, and erase and print dynamics. READ MORE >> : http://www.archdaily.com/486059/the-israel-pavilion-at-the-2014-venice-biennale-urburb-neither-urban-nor-suburban

Rosh Pina 2-4 Residential Buildings 2016 Tel Aviv 2300 sqm Before execution Planning for two new residential buildings in the Central Station area

Mints 39-45 New residential building 2023 Petah Tikva 10,000 sqm Licensing Demolition and rebuilding of two buildings in Mints street, Petah Tikva.

Israelis 9 Addition to a Preservation Building 2014-2016 Tel Aviv 1040 sqm Complete A non aggravated preservation building in the UNESCO declaration”of the white city area, in central Tel Aviv. The building has nine housing units on three existing floors plus an attic and basement. Additional zinc cladding at consistent verticals intervals of 30 cm-in the upper walls, above the existing structure,, which is coated with traditional lime-based plaster, creates a clear distinction that transmits modernity of volume and material cleanliness, while maintaining modesty and appreciation for an existing memory.

Competition for a university campus Competition 2021 Tel Aviv 10,000 sqm Proposal University Campus Design Competition. The proposal brings planning using a repetitive module that allows for minimal damage to the existing trees and the urban fabric at the site, with maximum flexibility and the possibility of future expansion.

Gottlieb 9 New Building 2021 Tel Aviv 440 Sqm Completed A new residential building in the Old North in Tel Aviv. Has a simple look with a white facade, which fits into the street continuum. In addition, Each apartment has a wide open balcony that allows natural light in. The street line is accompanied by vegetation. photography: Tamir Rogowski

Eden Hotel An addition to an existing hotel 2023 Petah Tikva 5,100 sqm Licensing 5.5 story addition to the historical hotel of Petah Tikva. Located at the back of the existing hotel building.

Open House Tel Aviv-Yafo 4.4 meters of exposed concrete 76 Frankel Street. Architects: Uri Shalom, Maor Bormed, Stability Studio, 2020. A tour of a new building in the Florentine neighborhood, which is only 4.4 meters wide and is built entirely of exposed concrete. On the tour, architect Uri Shalom will present the challenges of planning new buildings in the narrow original plots of the Florentine neighborhood, as well as the architectural interpretation of the existing area data as applied to the building. The tour will include entrance to the stairwell and the apartment in the building. READ MORE >> https://www.batim-il.org/tour

Rothschild 67 Addition to a Preservation Building 2023 Tel Aviv 1700 sqm Licensing An addition of 2.5 floors above a preservation building originally designed by Eng. Haim Sokolinski according to the principles of the international style. 3d render: the craft