GRADUATION PROJECT- AZRIELI AWARD 2011

SECTION B-B

PUBLIC HEARING 2011 - 2010 ‫בדלתיים פתוחות‬

EXPERIMENTAL URBAN BLOCK COMBINING THE LAW COURT SYSTEM IN TEL AVIV WITH HOUSING BLOCK ADIE LEVY TECHNION TUTORS : ARCH.GABY SCHWARTS , ARCH.SHMAYA SERFATY

The project offers an alternative, critical observation on the system of law courts, its future, and its role in Tel Aviv’s metropolitan area, and reexamines the future courthouse program and its integration in the spirit of the 21st century. Southern Tel Aviv currently appears as a “seam” in the metropolis, slowly shaking off its industrial character and turning into an alternative platform which hosts some independent systems; governmental and judicial networks right beside alternative culture and art activities. Thorough urban analysis identifies the remaining industrials ruins scattered in the area both as substrates for the general renovation of Southern Tel Aviv and as infrastructures for the integration of the different systems into a single environment. The project proposes a new heterotypic mix, which challenges the conventional iconography we have in mind about the modern court system.

IN THE 60’S

100% Industrial usage

DC BA “KIRYAT HAMELACHA” AS A CASE STUDY

‫ מסודרים באזורים כ»כ שונים זה מזה עד שבלתי אפשרי‬,‫ מושמים‬,‫) מתאר את ההטרוטופיה כמקום שבו הדברים מונחים‬foucault 1986,22 (‫ מישל פוקו‬...‫ הנאבקים על השליטה במקום אחד‬,‫ אלטרנטיביים‬,‫ אלה עולמות מקבילים‬.‫«המאבק המתמשך בין חלקי הבניין השונים של היכל המשפט הוא טופוגרפי ואידיאולוגי כאחד‬ ‫ מכונת קריאה‬,‫ היכל הצדק בתל אביב‬,‫ מקום המשפט‬,‫אביגדור פלדמן‬ .»‫ ההטרוטופיה היא מקום אמיתי של משבר המאחד מקומות השונים זה מזה ואף נוגדים זה את זה‬.‫למצוא לכולם מקום משותף אחד‬

INNER TYPICAL STRUCTURE

2010

Only 30% industrial usage

Recognition of two systems: the govermental vs. the social. these two systems exists right beside each other, but operate completely independently. the court system operate on the western border in front of local workshops, studios and art galleries and residential units inside old shops. distinct buffer zone between the two systems: what kind of formula can combine the two systems daily use and urban-local usage efficiently?what kind of functional mixture can exist,when a governmental function, such as court house is involved in it? which king of characteristic identification, should a court house need to have as a public building located at this specific urban context?

HOUSING

Experimental housing typologies in several sizes and sections. open halls distincs between the court system and the housing units, and serves as the highest exposure level inside the block.

BLOCK A

BLOCK B THE COURT SYSTEM

Bridging between the court halls of each judicial wing, in accordabce with the level of confidentiality needed. the facade’s hiding and exposing sequence reveals the function exists behind it.

BLOCK C ADMINISTRATION

Connection between halls which serve as public reception, and leading path for the specific court halls in thr upper levels.

ART GALLERY+SINGLE HOUSING UNIT

BLOCK D

Exhibition galleries, stores and local workshops serve as active faces in the new widthwise paths which are crossing the complex, thus combining each a single housing unit.

PUBLIC AREAS AND ENTRIES TO THE COURT INSTANCES

COMMERCE+OFFICES

In the perimeter of the site, pierced by the new urban passagways leading the visitors into the complex

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ALL 3 LAYERS PUBLIC+COURT+HOUSING

ADIE LEV Y PUBLIC HEARING TECHNION 2 011 T U T O R S : A R C H . G A B Y S C H WA R T Z A R C H S H M AYA S E R FAT Y

FRAGMENTAL SEQUENCE

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original hall

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balcony

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1:200 night scene- The internal rooms are widened into the perimeter, the units’ edges can serve as hosting ,meeting and public activity areas.

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night

EXHIBITION+LIVING DYNAMIC LOFT

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day

Longitudal appartement 200 sqm 45X4.5 m Perimetric exhibition and studio space of 100 m, internal sleeping and eating unit

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1 juvenile 2 family 3 local affairs 4 labor 5 traffic 6 housing 7 commerce 8 “HAARETZ” newspaper headquarters 9 vertical bike parking multimedia public law library 11 public trial hall/ multipurpose auditorium.

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First stagea couple + office unit

front hosting unit back housing unit

office

LOFTS S,M,L,XL

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Second stagea family open exhibition space, rear housing unit

1:200

Diversity of housing units in different scale and sections, based on the original structure of the old industrial longitudal halls.

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+0.50 LEVEL 1:750 (public reception) 7

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1:200 day scene- The internal housing unit is closed, the perimeter is open for studio lessons, work exhibition and creation and for hosting.

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+5.40 LEVEL 1:750 (court halls)

1 juvenile court hall( restricted access) 2 family court hall 3 judges library 4 conference room 5 consulation room 6 clerk help desk ing area- public 8 judges& senior staff restricted area 9 inmates pass (restricted access) 10 housing unit 11 art galleries& studios

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:750

cutting off the old structure by new urban passages

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1 commerce 2 gallery/ workshop 3 multimedia public law library 4 future railway station 5 public reception and managements’ offices 6 info point,police station, post office and caffeteria 7 “HAARETZ” newspaper offices 8 public trials hall/ multipurpose auditorium 9 lobby &waiting lounge- attorneys defense prosecution and advocacy 10 public guidance center &intern center 11 entries for each court instance: local affairs, labor, traffic, juvenile, family

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LOCAL CULTURALEDUCATIONAL

GOVERNMENTAL -JUDICIAL NETWORK 10

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1.”Bialik-rogozin” school (mostly immigrants) 2.”Teva” school 3. shapira school 4. religious local grpop 5. junior high school 6.acting school-”nissan tativ” 7. “Tel Aviv Jaffa college” 8.music center 9.”contemporary by colconda”- art gallery.10. old garages transformed into alternativ night clubs and studios 11. “Barbi” music performace center

1.Several court instances( both magistrates and district court) 2. The pathological institute for forensic medicine 3.“Abu- Kabir” detention center 4. The police region’s headquarters 5. Traffic police

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10 Existing open pubic areas Potentially green areas (based on the municipality future planning)

URBAN GREEN LOOP 11

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+9.30 LEVEL 1:750 (court halls)

1 traffic court hall( restricted access) 2 labor court hall 3 local affairs court hall 4 president hall- traffic court 5 president hall- labor court 6 clerk help desk 7 waiting area- public 8 judges& senior staff restricted area 9 inmates pass (restricted access) 10 housing unit 11 art galleries& studios

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PUBLIC LAYER+ HOUSING S T R E E T L E V E L ADIE LEV Y PUBLIC HEARING TECHNION 2 011 T U T O R S : A R C H . G A B Y S C H WA R T Z A R C H S H M AYA S E R FAT Y

RUINS IN REVERSE “instead of causing us to remember the past’ like old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future”

Robert Smithson, Entropy and the new monuments

SUPERPOSITION SOUTH TEL AVIV INFRASTRUCTURE

How can we preserve the identification charchetristics of the area, while fitting it to today’s technological- social and cultural reality?

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GALLERY+ HOUSING UNIT Private art galleries on the ground floor and upper single / couple/or family housing unit

presidential halldistrict court- labor

upper floorjudges’ chambers intern’s offices and staff club

judges’ rest& lounge hall criminal law court halls- traffic

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civil law court halls district court- Traffic

court halls

inmates/ convictswaiting hall

civil law court halls district court- labor

South Tel Aviv

South Tel Aviv

presidential halldistrict court- traffic

“Asia” complex

mediation rooms criminal law court halls- juvenille

criminal law court halls- family conference room

cafeteria - staff

+5.40 LEVEL consultation room

court halls

SECTION D-D

conference room staff library

The growing need for the court law system in tel aviv to expand and consume more lands in the future led to formulation of a new architectural plan for future extension. This plan,proposed to expand the existing complex which is located in the city center, at the expense of the upper parking lot which currently serves the court house’s visitors and staff.

Ramat Gan

The new initiative didn’t come up with a comprehensive stratagy which copes with the future program expansion. In fact, the court house system still remains disconnected from several court instances located around the metropolis area. The district court and the magistrates court, are both still planned to operate at the city center complex, though several instances remain scattered in themetropolis, and wasn’t included in the future building extension.

Temporary disengagement due to the lack of space generates a strong influence on the systems’ role in the metropolitan area. This disengagement was identified as a key to a possible solution, one that reads the systems’ constituents and relocates them in the city according to their functions.

The project offers transferring the metropolitan judicial instances to new locations, while leaving the magistrates and the district courts at their original locations.

This disengagement creates an opportunity for the formation of a new assembly that synergetically corresponds to other urban systems both at the local and metropolitan scales. The instances that can operate independently from the central courthouse can move to vacant spaces around the city and serve the borough they belong to.

The creation of a new mix which involves the urban grid and the localized events within, as part of a govermental district, and as a test case , Tel aviv’s court system. the indepandent instances in the system serve as a substrates for urban activities and for residential units and are linked by platforms which do not interfere with the everyday live at the street level.

balcony judges’ rest&lounge hall

waiting and info center- family court waiting and info center- juvenile court waiting and info center- labor court

+1.50 LEVEL

law archive

public reception

THE EXISTING COURT HOUSE

the original ground floor of the complex

waiting and info center- traffic court

museum island , city center Tel Aviv Assemblage of several governmental buildings in a campus, which is disconnected from the adjucent residential area and is inaccesible and open completley to public. restricted access to court and musuem island by existing closed base level, and future extension which prepatuate the old bureaucracy regarding the court law sys

waiting and info center- local affairs court

“HAARETZ” headquarters public court hall- day multipurpose auditorium night, weekends, holidays

ANCIENT GREECE, PRIENNE

Ancient Agora - public defined space, which all city path flow into it.

Natural view is integrally connected and influence on the public field.

Civil and public building scattered the Agora, which was actually one of the whole city “insula”s.

Urban mix of public, civil and governmental activities in one public groung field.

lawyers, defense, state attorney,police demand foyer

guidance and training center& intern teaching center

SOUTH TEL AVIVOPEN GREEN AREAS SEQUENCE

cafeteria lower floorstaff restricted parking level -6.75 info center

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reading space

open law archive

multimedia lawpublic library watching area“open doors” court sessions

LAW COURT SYSTEM PROGRAM RESHUFFLE ADIE LEV Y PUBLIC HEARING TECHNION 2 011 T U T O R S : A R C H . G A B Y S C H WA R T Z A R C H S H M AYA S E R FAT Y

What characterizes the justice hall in the 21st century? How should it function as a public building today? Is there a relationship between its function and jurisdiction, and its location and influence the in metropolis? At the urban scale, the proposal depicts the justice hall space as a continuation of the residence grid tying it around the urban public space and the events that take place in it. In the first stage, by tying the unused open areas in the city into an urban pedestrian ring, the extension of streets into the compound, and interpretation of its ground floor as an open space that continues the park area from the south.

-3.20 LEVEL park level

security&entries for each of the seperated court entries ( 4 entries total) cancelling the judges chamber’s gallery upper level,and creating equal entries to court hall from each side of it; one for publc and another for judges.