Portfolio Contents:• Final project - Tavor Heights - From Region to “Place“

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Regional Planning Project – Western Upper Galilee

Northern Waterfront

About the project:

Creating a regional master plan for the Western Upper Galilee region

Addressing topics such as: natural systems, population growth, infrastructure and existing planning for the area

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Vision:

To realize the potential of the Western Upper Galilee and to reinforce the region's settlements and their connection to Naharia – the main city in the area.

Goals:- To establish Naharia as the main tourism

centre in the region.

- To use the Mediterranean Sea as a resource for development.

- To develop diverse tourism in the region.- To preserve the rural character of the

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Master Plan:

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Neighbourhood Planning

Kibbutz Alonim

About the project:

Overall plan, earthworks plan, sections and grading

Neighbourhood design and details: roads, parking, paving, walls, etc

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Master Plan:

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zEnlarged Area:

Street View

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Utilization of topography

Street parking

House entrance

Sidewalk and planters for surface runoff

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National Park Project – Beit Shearim

Back to the City of the Sanhedrin

About the project:

Planning and design of a national park in northern Israel: master plan and a detailed design of a specific area

Nominated for Technion competition, July 2009

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Master Plan:

Beit Shearim is the archeological site of a Jewish town and necropolis. The site is part of the Beit Shearim National Park, which borders the town of Kiryat Tiv'on. It is situated 20 km east of Haifa in the southern foothills of the Lower Galilee. The park is managed by the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority. Between 200-400 C.E., Beit Shearim was the most important burial place in the Jewish world.

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Project Goals:

To take the visitor back in time, to revive the Sanhedrin (ancient Jewish court) era in Beit Shearim, and to enrich the experience in the National Park.

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Restoring ancient gate

Agricultural terraces

Resting areas

Water use

Reconstruction of building technologies

New entrance to the park

Parking under pecan trees

Accessibility to caves

Gathering area in the entrance

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Vineyard and ancient gate

Old and new

Traditional agriculture

The entrance to the park

The entrance area

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Urban Design Project – Bat Yam

City – Neighbourhood - Backyard

About the project:

Urban planning studio with students from architecture and landscape architecture

The project deals with urban renewal in Bat Yam

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The poster from the competition in Bat-Yam (Honourable Mention) and the Technion competition (1st place).

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The project name, City-Neighborhood-Backyard, expresses its primary theme. There are 3 types of systems that work independently and interactively.

•To utilize the unusable areas between the buildings.•To change the monotone fronts of the buildings.•To provide a solution for the lack of hierarchy in the city.

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• The city network• The neighborhood network• The backyard network

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zCreate an inviting communal open space promoting interactive activities and self-expression.

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zRehabilitation of old buildings as an alternative to demolition.

Provide solutions to add more space and break the monotonic fronts.

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Planting Design Project

Pardes Hana and Bat Galim Projects in Haifa

About the project:

Design a neighborhood park of 20 dunam (5 acres)

Neighborhood design based on vegetation foundation

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Neighbourhood Park, Pardes Hana:

In the park we took elements from the area, especially the local view of open fields and orchards, and we combined them to create a new park that incorporated these elements.

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Bat Galim Project Master Plan:

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Enlarged Areas (a):

Changing the traffic in the inner streets, and addition of deciduous trees.

Design neighborhood complexes differentiated by unique tree-planting for each complex.

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Enlarged Areas (b):

Strengthening the historic boulevard of Bat-Galim as a connecting axis to the sea and its promenade.

Creating a metropolitan park by relocating the train tracks below grade.

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Neighbourhood Design Project – Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa

Neighbourhood in a Park

About the project:

Develop a vision for the neighborhood

Design a master plan for a neighborhood

Develop a chosen area

Design a garden according to the vision

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zKiryat Eliezer neighbourhood in Haifa consists of old “Shikunim” buildings that were built during the 1950s. These are long structures with small apartments and wide unused open space between them.

In my vision, I am using the unique composition of the buildings and the open space, in order to make it feel like it belongs to the residents.

The Path that can be seen in the master plan and in the detail plan, goes through the whole neighbourhood and receives a different architectural language that breaks the orthogonal paths that are so typical in this place.

The vision

Bat Galim Border

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Master Plan:

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Create pocket gardens – “Block Gardens.”

Use of open space between the buildings.

Building’s additions create a sense of identity and belonging for the residents.

The open undeveloped space become cozy and usable places.

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Walking path referred to in the master plan is treated with a different design language, in contrast to the legacy orthogonal lines of the neighborhood.

As a result, the path provides a welcoming environment and a natural gathering point.

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Sections and Perspectives, Section A-A:

Elevator to the underground parking

The entrance of the path to the garden

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Sections and Perspectives, Section B-B:

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Sections and Perspectives, Section C-C:

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Colonnade next to new stores and

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Final Project

Tavor Heights - From Region to “Place”

About the project: