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.

Mesilat Yesharim 91 Residence and commerce 2022 Tel Aviv 1,200 sqm Licensing A corner building in the Shapira neighborhood at the intersection of Mesilat Yesharim and Hizkiyahu HaMelech streets. The cross-section of the structure was adjusted to the heights of the surrounding structures, and the shell as a mass opposed to steel and glass in the adjacent structure.

Hiron Center Detailed plan for a residential, employment and commercial complex The Lakeside Center The planning continues the municipal grid and draws it toward the lake. Israelis 9 A non aggravated preservation building in the UNESCO declaration”of the white city area, in central Tel Aviv Rothschild 87 An addition of 3 floors over a conservated building, originally planned by Architect Carl Rubin in the international style RLBG 15 A new intimate residential building in the heart of the Shapira neighborhood. Rothschild 67 An addition of 2.5 floors above a preservation building originally designed by Eng. Haim Sokolinski Frenkel 76 A new building in the Florentin neighbourhood. Gottlieb 9 A new residential building in the Old North in Tel Aviv Jerusalem blvrd 94 Commercial and residential project. Located on the main road of Jerusalem blvrd in Jaffa near the light rail station. Mini Israel The plan enables the construction of a circular building in the extent of the existing compound today THE URBURB The Israeli Pavilion presented a summary of a century of modernist architecture in Israel. Harav Reines 41 One of a series of buildings to be preserved near Dizengoff Square Yona HaNavi 16 A residential project in the UNESCO declaration area. Characterization of the facades with silicate bricks Shefer 10 A new residential building in Nahalat Binyamin area. Mesilat Yesharim 91 A corner building in the Shapira neighborhood at the intersection of Mesilat Yesharim and Hizkiyahu HaMelech streets. Yavne 26 A new residential building in Nahalat Binyamin area. Has 9 units Shefer 12 Planning for a new residential building near the Carmel Market Israelis 12 A building for preservation in the area of the UNESCO Declaration in the center of Tel Aviv. Ibn Gabirol 153-155 A commercial and residential project located on the main road of Ibn Gabirol not far from the HaMedina square. Derech Jaffa 5 A new project that combines residence and commerce. Sitting in the historic center of Tel Aviv Competition for a university campus The proposal brings planning using a repetitive module that allows for minimal damage to the existing trees and the urban fabric at the site HaGdud Haivri 26 An addition of 2.5 floors to an existing building and an update to the facades of the building. Harishonim 14 A new residential project in Ramat Gan Eden Hotel 5.5 story addition to the historical hotel of the Petah Tikva. Menora 6-12 A project that combines commerce and residences

RLBG 15 Residential Building 2023 Tel Aviv 600 sqm Licensing A new intimate residential building in the heart of the Shapira neighborhood. Has three and a half floors and five apartments. The main staircase is open to the outside. The facade windows have unique wooden shading elements

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Shefer 12 Residential Building 2016 Tel Aviv 930 sqm In execution Planning for a new residential building near the Carmel Market.