4th year urban studio - tlv_reload_2059
This project deals with Allenby st. in south Tel-Aviv, which is a major street, changed a lot throughout history, has cultural meanings, and today is one of the most important traffic axis of the city of Tel-Aviv.
My group and I a made a study to analyze the intensity of the street over the years to the present, this study was used as a tool for future planning and urban design of Allenby Street in 2059.
Only to find that the street has deteriorated over the years and its municipal and political importance decreased as well. Our project assumed rapid decline in the following years until the reduction to only traffic axis and complete loss of importance and significance of urban and cultural values by 2059. From this point on, we offer, in her project named “Allenby_intense”, an intervention that will stop the deterioration and initiate a process of urban renewal, which will preserve the historical and cultural importance of the street and will add another layer of meaning to it.
We added a new three-dimensional system (of physical and non-physical urban network) on the existing urban grid. The new three-dimensional system was set randomly to defined relations between future significant sites of Tel-Aviv. The system itself is not the solution for stopping the street deteriorating, but its intersections with the existing, are sites where the desired process of urban renewal. The new system meets an old system in certain places, selected according to the study of intensive, adding intersection and defines a new relationship between the old, with its historical-cultural significance, and the new. These intersection allow new urban situations such as new streets, alleys, new urban plazas, new traffic systems, new building typologies, etc., these will inhabit new functions and add another layer of meaning to the street. In addition, these meetings generates increased intensity in certain parts of the street, which will prevent the continued deterioration, and will starts a dynamic process that moves nearby areas and together received urban renewal process of the entire street. The project selected two such intersections and demonstrated some new urban situations that can take place as a result of the relations between the old and the new.