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ADI HIMI

RESUME ABOUT

Landscape Architect and a graphic design enthusiast based in Tel Aviv. My experience is ranging from urban masterplans, urban renewal plans, small and large scale landscape architecture plans, stratigical planing, and various competiotions participating.

EDUCATION

The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL, Haifa

2012 - 2016 [4 years]

B.L.Arch | Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Bachelor's Degree

SKILLS

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VERY ADVANCED Photoshop

VERY ADVANCED Indesign ADVANCED Premier BEGINNER Adobe XD ADVANCED

Graphic Design Digital Sketching

3D Modeling Photography Web Design

Microsoft of ce Apple iWork

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIANCE

Studio MA - Moria Architects (Moriya - Sekely)

2018 -2020 [2 years]

As a senior landscape architect I participated in a couple of competitions and was in charge of several projects, including: Beer Sheva quarry park, Zur Hadassa residential masterplan, Akko residential masterplan, Ramat Gan urban renewal Plan, Ramle urban renewal plan, Bat Yam urban renewal Ppan, Bat Yam buissnes querter ptratigical slan, Lod Yerushalaim boulevard, The Colony Garden competition, Rosenstain Stuttgart competition.

LYGM Landscape Architects and Environmental Engineers

2018 [8 months]

As a Landscape architect I was in charge of several projects including: Agam Hai Stratigical Plan, Shadmot Dvora quarry restoration, Kfar Blum camping site plan, Kfar Blum theme park, Hadera river park.

Zur-Wolf Landscape Architects

2016 - 2018 [2 years]

As a junior landscape architect I planned, and later was in charge of several projects, including: Karmei Gat residential detailed plan, Be All green roof, Glil Yan residential detailed plan, Shikun Dan residential masterplan, Jerusalem Tzahal Campus competition, Jerusalem Sultan's Pool competition.

Miller Blum Landscape Architects

2015 - 2016 [1 year]

As an Intern landscape architect I worked on several projects, including: Monfort Lake Falls, Melanox new building, the national library.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technion Student Association (TSA)

2012 - 2016 [4 years]

Freelance Graphic Designer

2011- Now

Final Year Studio Project Landscape Architecture

CASE STUDY Southern Arava Region

SELECTED WORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGES 01-06

THE QUARRY PARK

Preliminary Design For A Large-Scale Park In The Center Of Beersheba

PAGES 07-14

BE ALL TERRACE

Preliminary Design, Tender Planning and Construction For A Small-Scale Green Roof At A Shared Workspace In Tel Aviv

PAGES 15-20

THE COLONY GARDEN

Competition Participation For Re-Planning One Of The Main Gardens Of Rishon Lezion

PAGES 21-28

SHADMOT DVORA

Preliminary Design For A Small-Scale Quarry Restoration In Moshav Shadmot Dvora

THE QUARRY PARK

Studio Ma + Lola, Scape, Topotek 2018-2019

The Quarry Park plan proposes to transform the abandoned Beersheba quarry through a dynamic and participatory process of carving, extraction, and revegetation. The quarry sits along major highways entering the city, divides neighborhoods, and interrupts patterns of pedestrian movement and use.

The Beersheba Quarry Park design uses topography, vegetation, and shade to connect historically divided neighborhoods and the broader region. The quarry park is structured through a vegetated, shaded and civic promenade which winds through the park space, connecting the highest street level with the inviting and intimate deepest area.

At the North End of the Site, the Gallery museum is a beacon from afar, revealing a new gateway to the city that showcases landscape and geology as the core of Beersheba’s identity. The edges’ Park respond to the conditions of the local neighborhoods, creating a well-connected green loop with bike and pedestrian paths a as well as local and programmed entrances.

Inside the quarry the promenade unfolds into distinct gardens -an oasis, Byzantine quarry, waterfall, and beach pavilion, accommodating multiple users throughout the day, night, and season. Geology becomes a catalyst for transformation in Be’er Sheva – new park spaces and connections are incrementally revealed through a phased series of site excavations and additions, stitching the city together and connecting it to dramatic and intimate park landscapes below.

Quarry gardens

The quarry gardens are the civic core of this public space. An outdoor black box theater and grand cascade stairs, gradually steps and ramps into a vegetated and shaded urban promenade that connects high and low, linking a series of immersive garden spaces with the city above. Each garden transforms the climate through the careful addition of water and shade, creating microclimates hospitable for a range of plant species and recreational activities.

An oasis, vegetated pool, and outcropping waterfall offer a series of unique destinations along the promenade, each shaped by the geology of the place, its past history, and the methods of stone extraction used through the lifetime of the quarry. While the region’s geology is present throughout the Beersheba Quarry Park, the interpretation of this unique history crystallizes along the Geology Walk, a stair and park entrance that acts as a dual purpose neighborhood connection at the south end, and a cross-section and panorama of the geologic layers that underlie Beersheba.

The design collects seasonal runoff and encourages the the growth of exotic vegetation and creating transcendental escape from the desert environment. While sun and shade shape the occupation of the spaces during the day, the quarry is transformed at night into a civic destination for the entire city, offering large scale gathering spaces for lms, performances, and other cultural events. The city unites around the Quarry Park during Lag Ba Omer, as residents are invited to rebuild bon res along the terraced ledges of the quarry’s perimeter, creating a memorable panorama of a thousand ickering lights.

BE ALL TERRACE

Zur Wolf 2016-2018

The Be All shared workspaces is located at Alon Tower in Tel Aviv. The 500m2 exterior roof terrace is located on the 6th oor of the building, in the back - a communal space; board rooms and the kitchen, in the front - the view of Ygal Alon Main Street and the high-risers of Tel Aviv.

We were asked to plan a terrace that can hold up to 500 people and will be used for the site’s veriable daily functions, as well as for special events and outdoor lectures and conferences.

Greening the surrounding skyline and blending into its industrial context, the rooftop terrace comprise a series of exible spaces for working and relaxing, the main open areas are allocated for social functions, dining, and various programs and events. The terrace’s modular, kit-of-parts design will allow the company to adapt to its changing needs over time. Plantings create an immersive experience within each terrace

When we were planning the planting areas we came across an unusual issue. The terrace wasn’t constructively planned to carry the weights of wet soil and large scale trees, and we had to come up with a solution so the terrace could become the green oasis we dreamt it could. First, we switched the plain soil with perlite soil, which is a lot lighter, combined with organic compound. The perlite holds less water then the plain soil, as well.

Yet, that solution wasn’t enough. We needed to nd a material that was extremly light, in order to meet the constructor’s instructions, and yet rm enough to hold the wheight of the perlite combined with the plants and trees.

We offered polystyrene, which we’ve used on a different project in the past. The combination worked, and we had succeeded in our mission to make the terrace into a green roof.

We planned a green wall for covering an exsisting niche in the top part of the walls around the terrace, including the location and measurments for the irrigation system from the top part, and the drainage systems at to bottom. The client ended up going with a different solution for that part of the wall.

Another, smaller challange we were facing is nding a solution for hanging some of the lighting, fans and the shaders. We decided to use 300X300 I Beams across the terrace, and nd the right connector for each utility in order to avoid many cable connetions to the upper areas.

A few costume elements were planned for the terrace; a long bench turning into a bar table, and a costume endless re action pool, over owing into a smaller pebbled pool.

THE COLONY GARDEN COMPETITION

Stu o MA 2019

Tourism Icon At The Heart Of The Colony The Archiology Of The Future

The Colony Garden, also known as the City Garden and the HaNadiv’s garden, in Rishon Lezion is the city's oldest and central garden.The garden covers 40 acres between Carmel Street in the south and Rothschild Street in the north.

The garden started as an agricultural plots and was rst planted in 1883, it was later established as an experiment station to test the suitability of agricultural crops to the soil in the young colony. Next to the station was planted in the orchard. In 1890, the famous Canary Palm Avenue garden was planted. The avenue was planted in honor of distinguished guests such as Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl, Arthur James Balfour and Sir Winston Churchill. In 1940 the garden transformed it into a public park, and was planned as an English garden, designed by landscape architect Yechiel Segal and Zvi Miller.

The 125-year-old Palm Avenue is the most recognizable symbol of the colony's garden.

A VIEW TWARDS THE VINE-PAVILLION AND THE PALM AVENUE

Some of the colonies that started out with the support of the Baron turned the memories: the gardens, the vineyards and the wine industry into a tourist infrastructure that revitalized the center of the colony.

Baron's Garden; The Colony Garden is a major player in the city's image and the image of a continuous present time. There are signi cant memories, private and public, from different periods of the garden. The personal intuition is aimed at repeating the past. Architectural planning responsibility seeks to understand how these memories can be used in the present and future.

The Nursery Irrigation ditches in the orchard

The Palm Bulevard

ROSH PINA YESOH HAMALA

METULA KFAR TAVOR

ZIKRON YAAKOV BAT SHLOMO ATLIT BINYAMINA

KFAR SABA

RECHOVOT 16

MIKVE ISRAEL PETACH TIKVA RISON LEZION

Planning Proposal

In the early 1990s there was a owering garden that contained a nursery, an experimental eld, a ower garden, an orchard and a vegetable garden. As the nursery closed, the orchard and palm avenues were replaced, with the surrounding garden. The Orchard Gardens are a witness to the gardens and orchard that were the heart of the colony. They contain several species of trees, fruit trees and shrubs, such as: seagull, citrus, strawberries, g, pomegranate and almond and more, as well as intimate living areas, wandering areas, vegetable gardens, and themed gardens of varying content.

THE RESTORED STRUCTURES AROUND THE GARDEN, IN THE OLD COLONY

We propose to turn the colony's garden into "orchard gardens", a testament to the colony's gardens and orchard, which contain several species of trees, fruit trees and shrubs, such as: siglon, citrus, strawberries, g, pomegranate, almond and more, as well as intimate lingering areas, wandering areas, vegetable gardens, and themed gardens with varying content.

The Planning Is Based On Three Design Principles:

1.THE EXISTENT AS A FOUNDATION - preserving the existing trees and completing the disassembled palms as the boulevards they used to be. The early memory of the garden space, from the very beginning of it being a productive agricultural orchard, The 'boulevard' served a purpose as a 'see and be seen' promenade, a space of walking, meeting, contemplation, wonder and meditation.

2. THE LOCKED GARDEN - re ected in the perennial garden threshold and grapevine vines. The garden threshold pergola, which serves as the wall of the garden in the western part, 'defends' the garden against the busy Herzl Street and produces the locked garden experience. The vines from different varieties will create a show of varying presence and color throughout the year. The Vine Pavilion around the city hall - A light, translucent metal structure, as a base for a vineyard veneer, de ning a width of about 1300 square meters, for multifunctional urban uses: concerts, public gatherings, outdoor galleries, and more. , Both as his alter ego and as a memorial to the historic Baron vineyards.

3. THE DISTRIBUTION OF ORCHARD GARDENSthe small veriant garden will be destribute around the garden, creating small private 'rooms', de ned by trams leading to mature trees and settlements. Out of these orchards a series of vaine-like paths will ank the garden and create connecting routes.

SECTION THROUGH THE GARDEN

SECTION THROUGH THE GARDEN

A TOP VIEW OF THE GARDEN

SHADMOT DVORA QUARRY RESTORATION

LYGM 2018

The project is located in the Lower Galilee region, which lies within a unique, wild landscape with very a signi cant ecological values. The unique Landscape of the Lower Galilee is formed by a system of extended Fault Zones, that created a beautiful set of slopes, streams and valleys. The area is full of natural landscape - rivers, springs and many signi cant archaeological and historical sites.

The quarry is located at the edge of Moshav Shadmot Dvora, who was established in 1939 and has a population of about 175 families. The Moshav is a massive part of the landscape heritage of the working settlements.

The project refers to the rehabilitation and cultivation of a damaged natural space, which was used over time as a pirate waste and a mining site, an activity that caused ecological damage, a safety issue and lanscape hazard within the rocky landscape of the basalt rock.

The quarry is an open wound in the landscape around it. The uniqueness and beauty of the area coupled with the spectacular view from its focal point has in recent years made it a touristic area.

The purpose of the project is to restore the contaminated man-made land and restore it to function as a quality open space in this unique scenic area. As part of nature and heritage sites in the Lower Galilee for the enjoyment of the general public traveling in the area. The central location of the project will allow meeting and departure points for various trips in the many routes of the area.

THE EXSISTING QUARRY- BEFORE IMAGES

WE SUGGESTED A NUMBER OF ALTERNATIVES PLANS

ALTERNATIVE PLAN No 01

This plan was more families and young kids oriented. We planned an up-going path, that stitchs the verias uses around the quarry; natural playfround, a picnic area and shaded places to sit.

ALTERNATIVE PLAN No 02

This plan was more young teens and local families oriented. since there arn’t any unique playgrounds inside the moshav, we suggested an extreme bike park, with a picnic hill in the sade that looks down at the park.

ALTERNATIVE PLAN No 03

The chosen design divides the project area into a variety of experiences: ecologically restored level, picnic grove valley and a maditating circle, that will also be used as a gathering place for the moshav residents.

In the eastern part is an ecologically restored path (on the land ll areas) that preserves and restores the landscape of the Lower Galilee, where planting and sowing of it’s rich herbaceous plant with seasonal owering layers along with planting of jujube and single carob trees in the eld will be carried out.

In the western part, the design is based on the natural topographic of the quarry in order to create an up-going eucalyptus groves as a picnic area. Between the two - a valley with a meditating circular walk, that slowly reveals the existing cliff of the quarry, and the unique geology of the space, interweaves the three sections together and provides a powerful vertical experience and diverse views of the near and far landscape.

SECTION THROUGH THE THE PLANNED MOUNDS

EARLY IMAGES OF CONSTRUCTION

ALTERNATIVE- THE CIRCULAR WALK REVEALS THE QUARRY, AND IS USED AS A GATHERING PLACE