A philosophic project – conceptual – research

Music by Nadav Hazut

Marginal human activities are empowered and given presence through artistic and architectural expression. In this work, abstract theoretical structures were developed based on events in nature in woods around Jerusalem. Along the process there is an ongoing exchange between a human occurrence and an event in the natural environment. The one helps the other to be created, to be constructed through artistic and architectural techniques, hence a new way of looking at those marginal occurrences in our lives is constructed, and a catalyst for a new reflection is formed. Along my work process I used different acts in order to improve my potential to plan a space, and to challenge myself with the question whether there is another way to do it.

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A philosophic project – conceptual – research

Music by Nadav Hazut

Marginal human activities are empowered and given presence through artistic and architectural expression. In this work, abstract theoretical structures were developed based on events in nature in woods around Jerusalem. Along the process there is an ongoing exchange between a human occurrence and an event in the natural environment. The one helps the other to be created, to be constructed through artistic and architectural techniques, hence a new way of looking at those marginal occurrences in our lives is constructed, and a catalyst for a new reflection is formed. Along my work process I used different acts in order to improve my potential to plan a space, and to challenge myself with the question whether there is another way to do it.

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A philosophic project – conceptual – research

Music by Nadav Hazut

Marginal human activities are empowered and given presence through artistic and architectural expression. In this work, abstract theoretical structures were developed based on events in nature in woods around Jerusalem. Along the process there is an ongoing exchange between a human occurrence and an event in the natural environment. The one helps the other to be created, to be constructed through artistic and architectural techniques, hence a new way of looking at those marginal occurrences in our lives is constructed, and a catalyst for a new reflection is formed. Along my work process I used different acts in order to improve my potential to plan a space, and to challenge myself with the question whether there is another way to do it.

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Israeli culture is the product of an immigrant society, combining wide and varied range of influences and cultural creation, drawn from countries and cultures.

The project deals with the consolidation of different cultures, with emphasis on the concept of ‘the road’, to a one common point and a given.

I created four pavilions which are defined by the double walls that define the entrance to the museum. The walls are leaning back towards the heart of the structure to sharpen the leading force inside. The gap between the two walls creates the course of moving in the structure.

Moving on site describes the whole story: bringing people from different corners on the site, their pick-up via one central point, and from there this creates moving in the heart of the project and in the walls to the exhibition spaces.

The choice of building materials, exposed concrete and rusting corten, I expressed the Israeli cultural primacy.

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Levinski Street, Tel Aviv

Preparing and selling ‘Good Intentions’ packages is a means of rehabilitation at the institute, for people who were released from prison after being convicted for theft, violence or drug use and trade. In the design of the place I combined cement as a building material together with a diagram pointing the direction of sun rays entering the building. The way the cement is designed in the space gives place for a sun ray to caress it – hence a close interrelationship is created, equivalent to relations between people, between the firm and cold material and an unperceivable material.

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Jesse Cohen neighborhood, Holon, Israel

“Some get the chance to explore their potential to some degree, but many others never get any opportunity during their lifetime, to unwrap the wonderful gift they were born with. They die unexplored and the world remains deprived of their creativity and their contribution”

Those are the words of Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Noble Prize for his contribution to eradicate poverty through a social oriented business plan he invented.
In the Jesse Cohen project in Holon, I chose to deal with the problem of poverty. In my capacity as a designer and an entrepreneur I chose to give hope to the deprived people there, to develop a socially oriented business model which will advance them toward the head of the pyramid: through security, a sense of community, self respect, self appreciation and self fulfillment.
On one side of the different items for recycling, gathered by people from the neighborhood will be stored, and in the other side there will be a workshop, where people will build and prepare things for people in the community. The central space will become a shop, where the workshop products will be sold for fair prices.

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Jaffa,55 Yehuda Ha’Yamit st.

Gilbert & George House is an interior decoration project inspired by the British Pop artists Gilbert Passmore and George Proesch. The couple is known, among other things, for their big scale photographs, titled ‘THE PICTURE’. Those works deal with the complex relations between the individual – the frame – and space, while examining interrelations between documenting reality and creating fantasy. Decomposing their works and identifying the different components enabled the creation of a formally, graphically and functionally empowered explicit space. The monochromatic background and the extrovert figures in colorful suits collaborate and are separated at the same time by the black grid.

The vertical loft is designed for a building in 55 Yehuda Ha’Yamit st., to replace two flats of 22 square meters, built one on top of the other. In the process the flats were connected by removing the floor/ceiling to become one unit of seven meters high. Discussion of issues such as breaking social conventions, and the complex relations between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, led me to come up with a program dedicated to local fishermen. I designed an intimate environment which evolves from the physical scale of the project and from perceiving the individual by way of his spiritual, emotional and functional needs, while not hesitating to bring into the design elements take from what is considered ‘high’ culture.

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