Archinect - Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

on-line

2005-01-04T07:33:51-05:00

we got a website working for Alter-Studio. check it out on
www.alter-studio.com

Burda meets Alter-Studio

2004-12-31T10:22:37-05:00

this week the excersice we defined to ourselves was to bring only one image to the studio session and explain our project with that. like that we were hoping to lose some of the less relevant data and focus on the important stuff.
dan found a 'project sheet' from an old Burda magazine from the 80's (horrible clothes) and used the overlaying of huge amounts of different datas as a point of departure to produce an image which deals with the envelope of all of the 'compounds' in his urban piece according to their time of completion.
the result is maybe something to work with in terms of understanding how this compounding structures develop and change during the years and how is Tel-Aviv reacting to that.

the Burda images

the compound timeline

and an other one

2004-12-21T16:56:05-05:00

Yaron tried to define his site through his own process of working on it. so the interests in the actual site are represented as a transforming system according to his knowledge of the site and intentions for a project.

Alter-image

2004-12-18T08:20:39-05:00

that's a first glance of an image done in Alter-Studio. Dan made a timeline of his week in order to try and map the process of working on a project. then the activities were treated as programmes and manipulations were made in order to understand possible effects on the project.

ALTER STUDIO

2004-12-17T11:11:19-05:00

This is the first statment a group of students from my studio are working on, we named the group Alterstudio

"Alter-studio was initiated as a critical framework for the studio work on our final project and more generally of the process of producing an architectural project. Soon we came to realize that it might be more interesting if we look at Alter-studio not as a supporting system to the studio but rather we look at the studio as a pattern, and as the ultimate excuse for discussing Alter-studio. Since studio process is more or less an expected thing (including the pains, the misery, the bad critique, the moment of enlightenment, the arbitrary design etc.) we thought Alter-studio could serve as a box of surprises, injecting some random figures into the system. Introducing arbitrary actions and initiatives into the design process we slowly define/create an organism, one that's capable of acting as a mental cow, becoming big enough to matter, to have an effect. That is done by ...

Mapping

2004-11-29T18:03:50-05:00

We just ended a week long workshop called grenzgeografien (you can check the site at www.grenzgeografien.org We were working on an urban project in Jerusalem with a few students from the ETH in Zurich, from Bir Zeit University in Rammalah and from Bezalel. Actually the project has been going on for more than a year now, coordinated by Philip Misselwitz, it's the fourth workshop held. The work focused on the village of Sur Ã¢â‚¬“ Bahir on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem and on the neighborhood of Har Homa, the first being a Palestinian village, the second an Israeli Jewish neighborhood.
The task was to map up different parameters, anything from Imagined landscape to Fear. Each group had a week to put together a map.
Looking back at the presentation that was held on Friday, I can't escape the realization that quantitive representation, which in my eyes has been on center stage for the last couple of years, is slowly shifting towards qualitive representation.
It's obvious that ...

F.A.S.T competition

2004-09-17T16:29:11-04:00

I still got another month to go before autumn classes start (October 17). I spend my time between the office, where I working this summer doing an internship, and a competition I'm doing with fellow students for the F.A.S.T organization. Other than that, the Mediterranean is a good option, from the twelve floor (where my office is) I can see 180 degrees of it. I start making plans for a dip as soon as I arrive all depending on the color of the water.

F.A.S.T, or the Foundation for Achieving a Seamless Territory, was created about a year ago by a good friend , Dan Handel and Malkit Shoshan. Basically it deals with the architectural angle of the Israeli Ã¢â‚¬“ Palestinian on-going conflict. Or how government legislations, building codes and other land management authorities ( Nature Society, Archeological Research Etc.) are utilizing they're mandate in order to promote a bias, one sided land development scheme in favor of the Jewish majority.
Since the war of 1948, when thousa...