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Asaf Bivas
Asaf Bivas
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The Nature Museum Competition, 2012
Jazz
With Yakov Gil, Nurit Gil, Noa Apel
Fall semester, 2011
Tel-Aviv
Tutor. Nilly R Harag Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
With Others Like Me Exchange Program
Folding
Fall semester, semester, 2011
Spring semester, 2011
Tutor. Wiel Arets
Tutor. Erez Golani Solomon
UDK, Berlin
Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem Rent Space of Disaster
Final Project, 2013
Summer semester, 2011
With Adi Yehezkely
Tutor. Erez Golani Solomon
Tutor. Yuval Yasky
Bezalel Academy, Tokyo
Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
East Jerusalem Fall Semester, 2012 Tutor. Sanan Abdel Kader Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
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Asaf Bivas abivas@msn.com +972.50.448.8799
Education Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2008-2013
B.Arch, Architecture -- Workshop led by Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation, 2013. -- Exchange program, UDK, Berlin, Tutor: Wiel Arets, spring semester, 2012. -- Summer program, Tokyo, Tutor: Erez Golany Solomon, 2011. -- “Basic Design” study program, Rome, 2008.
Professional Experiences Yashar Archiects, Tel-Aviv, Israel
October 2011 - present
Architect (2012-2013), Intern (2011-2012) -- Working on several projects of differing scale. Including a 45 story
residential tower and a complex of affordable housing. -- Preliminary design for high and low rise residential buildings.
specifications, and supporting documents. -- Working with project consultants at various stages of the design. Producing of documents to various authorities.
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem October 2013 - present Teaching Assistant “Basic Design” course deals with building analysis of historical buildings. -- Evaluated and provided feedback on student projects throughout academic year, lectured and facilitated group discussions.
The Fundamental Group Architects, Berlin, Germany
Summer 2012
Intern -- Part of the concept team for a school in Bangladesh. Creating, physical models, 2d and 3d drawings.
Sharon Derhy Photography Studio, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2007 - 2008
Assistant “Maariv” Newspaper portraits, Fashion photography and art projects. -- Preparing sets, setting up lighting and accessories, providing direct support to the photographer on set, General administration.
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-- Producing detailed drawings documents include building plans,
Additional Relevant Experiences DESURBS
2011
Research Assistant Designing safer urban spaces, European Union’s FP7 Research Programme -- A member in a research team in a multi-disciplinary research designing Safer Urban Spaces.
UIA2011 Tokyo
Summer 2011
Representaive -- Member of the Israeli representatives delegation for the 24th World Congress of Architecture, Managing and instructing the Israeli exhibition.
Different Lesson (“Shiur Acher”)
2010
Volunteer -- Preparing and Teaching Architecture Course consistent of 12 frontal lessons, for underprivileged 9th grade high school students.
Computer Skills
Languages
+++ AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator,
Hebrew – Native languages
Sketchup, Microsoft Office
English- Excellent level
++ Rhino
German- Beginners level
+ Revit
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Jazz
Tel Aviv
rhythm ‘small scale- large scale’
avenue music center
Jazz
The project is located in ‘Yehudit’ avenue, Tel Aviv. The buildings along the avenue stand in a constant grid. This grid will eventually affect the rhythm of the project. The new skyscrapers in the city surround the neighborhood and create a unique ‘small scale- large scale’ situation. The small scale is the street itself, the tree line, the relatively thin movement of people and the low rise buildings. The large scale includes the bordering with the major traffic routes and the different views of the city’s skyscrapers, which rule the background and stand in a totally different scale against the avenue and all that is in it. The assignment asked to locate and plan a music center for jazz music. The center includes an open theater and small performance spaces alongside a hall leading to a concert hall providing a view to the highway.
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Tension between small and large scale
Longitudinal section
Jazz
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Longitudinal sections
Ground floor plan
Jazz
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Folding
public housing
facade
socio-economic
typical street
526 meters
16 meters
Folding
The project focuses on public housing, a typical residential form in the Israeli city since the 1950’s. During the two first decades of the Israeli state, the government formed public housing projects in almost every city all over the state. A glance on the facade of the generic public housing building raises various social meanings, as its appearance usually link to poverty and lower socio-economic status. The simplicity of the public housing generic ‘language’ is the starting point of this project. Therefore, the first step was presenting a drawing of the facades of the typical street in the public housing project. By folding the street drawing several times, a new, more complex language was created. A street façade 526 meters long has been folded into a 16 meters façade of a single building, contains all the contents, but lacks the initial simplicity and its negative social meanings.
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Typical modernist neighbourhoods in Israel
526m
263m
131m
65m
32m
16m
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From 526m route to a 16m facade
131m
16m
Folding
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Space of Disaster
earthquake Japan
dictionary
Tokyo
Setzuden policy
public spaces
Space of Disaster
The studio “space of disaster” deals with the earthquake that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011. The product of the studio is a book, a dictionary of ideas about disasters and their relation to architecture, based on the studding of the recent Japanese disaster. The dictionary gathers ideas about how to deal with the disasters’ consequence, the opportunities lies within disasters to re-think the way we live. The earthquake started a chain of events that was not limited to its immediate consequences, and had a continuous effect on Tokyo several months after. When parts of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant went out of use, the people of Tokyo were instructed to reduce power use. This had an immediate effect on public spaces and their usage. During the nights streetlights were turned off and during the hot summer days airconditioning was set firmly on the uncomfortable 28°C (Setzuden policy). The social sensitivity that the Setzuden policy has created can be translated to long-term change of public spaces and their usage, as the building and its systems are a significant factor that affects and is affected by electricity consumption. In a similar way there is an opportunity to re think about other systems in the city.
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Shibuya Crossing
Existing state
Section through Shibuya Crossing
Proposal state
Space of Disaster
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East Jerusalem
Palestinian neighborhoods
local plans
infrastructure
alternative solutions
East Jerusalem
There are more than 25 Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. These neighborhoods suffer from severe neglect and planning constraints. At the heart of the planning problems faced by the residents of these neighborhoods, is the lack of suitable, up-to-date local plans with sufficient land and zoning provisions to meet their current and future housing needs The absence of such plans is the root cause of the vast numbers of demolition orders and home demolitions which plague these neighborhoods. In addition, all the Palestinian neighborhoods suffer from a lack of basic infrastructure and services such as schools, roads, sewage and waste disposal systems, and recreational areas. The project deals with the absence of local plans in Jabel Mucaber neighborhood, offering alternative solutions that would avoid the expected damage and discrimination toward the east Jerusalem residents by the “Ring Road� route plan, currently promoted.
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East Jerusalem Separation Wall
Jabel Mucaber master plan
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East Jerusalem
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Longitudinal section
Ground floor plan
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East Jerusalem
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The Nature Museum
competition
Jerusalem
campus
sustainable
The Nature Museum
A public competition, Initiated by Jerusalem municipality, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Fund and the Science Museum in Jerusalem, for the design of the Jerusalem Nature Museum as part of the Nature, Science and Technology Campus. The Competition site resides within the national museums’ campus in Jerusalem, in proximity to the Israel Museum, the “Knesset” and the site of the future national library, on a natural slop vegetated with various trees and bushes. The guiding principle in the design was the approach of environmental and sustainable planning. The idea was to plan a building that can serve the public not only as a museum. Some of the spaces can be used for more than one function, so the building can stay active throughout the day. Using the topography and length of the site the museum can allow free use of its facilities such as gardens, outdoor theater and library.
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The Government Complex
Section through the planetarium
Section through the entrance pavilion
Ground floor plan The Nature Museum
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Facades
The Nature Museum
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With others like me
utopia
city walls
human nature,
Versailles
Mirrors
With others like me
The city can be considered as an utopia. Cities originally came about as projects of the future: People moved from the country into the city in order to escape the ancient forces of nature and to build a new future for themselves .Nowadays, after the city walls have fallen it is hard to define the utopian character of the city. Cities all around the globe seems to be full with “others like me� people who share the same hopes, dreams, happiness and misery. City walls once delineated the place where a city was built, clearly designating its utopian character .In order to maintain the difference between nature and human nature, keep people inside the city and create a new, non-linear world map of cities- we should built again the city walls. Marcel Proust, covering the Palace of Versailles as a journalist, understood the status of the place and the fantasy that he represents as an utopia. The city wall can function as a modern Versailles. The Hall of Mirrors is an architecture expression of a society that still exists and has similar needs. The combination of reflection and transparency stimulates stress and relaxation; It is a space where you can see yourself and others, the new city wall can create a similar effect.
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With others like me
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Versailles study
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Segmant from the new City Wall
Rent
identity
images
dreams
space sharing
Rent
In our hectic everyday reality, no lifestyle or social structure is immune to changes. Our identity is fluid and we are constantly required to re-invent ourselves. Categories that were once stable like family, social status and gender are now negotiable and subjected for us to design. One of the main causes of this change is the unprecedented amount of images we are exposed to. We can see hundreds of images a day, much more than any other generation before us. Those images are crystalized to our dreams, ideal selves we want to resemble. The project is trying to create architecture that enables maximal access to those self-design resources. Everyone can dream. It is immoral to allow people to dream their identity, but not to design and live it in practice. We suggest a living system that is based on space sharing, so that every resident will have unlimited access to different “sets�, different spaces within which he can try different identities, and formulate the one that suits him most. The leading principal of the buildings is the ability to break and reassemble the privet unit, in order to create a wide scale of living/renting possibilities. Those will allow the residents to exchange rooms according to the image of themselves they like to design at that moment.
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“Identity Spaces“ study
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“Self design” resources scheme
Rent
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Housing units
Site plane
Typical section
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Existing building
Building addition
Housing / office
Sharing spaces
Garden
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Facade
Rent
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Typical floor-plan
Segmant from a floor-plan
Rent
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