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project:
architect:
Beit HaLochem / Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
ASthought
#13
project:
architect:
Beit HaLochem / Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
book editor:
Talor Noam
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Work facts p.............................5 Project description p.............................7 Commission p..........................11 Draft proposals p..........................15 Final proposal p..........................19 series editors: Gennaro Postiglione Maddalena Scarzella
Models p..........................23 Construction drawings p..........................27
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Building site p..........................31
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book editor: Talor Noam
All rights reserved © Talor Noam All drawings © Kimmel Eshkolot Architects All pictures © Amit Giron This volume has no commercial purposes but only educational goals
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Work facts
Project: Bait HaLochem
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Address:
Sderot Ben Tsiyon Carmel 9, Be’er Sheva. Israel.
Area:
18.000 m²
Volume:
6.000 m³
Type:
Rehabilitation Center
Planned:
2002 – 2008
Built:
2009 - 2011
Client:
INZ foundation
Architect:
Kimmel Eshkolot Architects / Etan Kimmel, Michal Kimmel-Eshkolot, Ilan Carmi, Shachaf Zait
Responsible partner:
Shachaf Zaiti
Structural engineer:
Roy Assaf Engineering
Awards:
The Yacov and Zeev Rechter Prize for Architecture 2011
References:
Domus Israel #13
http://asthought.polimi-cooperation.org/talor-noam-1984/ Project description:
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History of Commission: On the outskirts of Be’er Sheva, where the city ends and the desert begins, lies the site of the new building: Beit Halochem (Veterans’ Home). Main architectural ideas: The scorching desert sun and the parched scenery served as inspiration. The structure was designed as an ar
rangement of rock - like volumes grouped together. A thin horizontal roof stretches between them,
forming a courtyard - intimate, inviting and protected - to serve the building’s function: A home for
disabled veterans and their families.
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Project description
On the outskirts of Be’er Sheva, where the city ends and the desert begins, lies the site of the new building: Beit Halochem (Veterans’ Home).
The scorching desert sun and the parched scenery served as inspiration. The structure was designed as an arrangement of rock - like volumes grouped together. A thin horizontal roof stretches between them, forming a courtyard - intimate, inviting and protected - to serve the building’s function: a home for disabled veterans and their families.
A three-dimensional study of the masses produced a unique syntax, based on contrasts of light and shadow, confinement and expanse, positive and negative. The intense sunlight provides a rich variety of three-dimensional effects through subtle shifts of wall angles. The ”rock” structures contain the more private and intimate functions, while the intermediate spaces serve as public areas and circulation routes. Lightweight
bridges cross over the public areas and connect the masses, while providing a powerful spatial experience to the users.
Within the private massive structures, thick walls provide climatic protection, which is so essential in the Negev desert. In contrast, in the public areas the light roof that caps the building provides shade and protection, and creates a variety of pleasant and relaxing outdoor spaces.
The building furnishes the site with new topographies, allowing for two distinct and inter-connected ground floor levels, as an integral, access-friendly feature ofthe building’s architecture.
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Commission
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“Hativat HaNegev” Monument @ Amit Goren project- name - architect/office name Architects Bait HaLochem Shachaf Zait/Kimmel Eshkolot
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“Hativat HaNegev� Monument @ Amit Goren 14
Aerial View Of The Site @ Amit Goren ASthought
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Draft proposals
Be’er Sheva - Israeli’s Brutalism Capital
Quarter Quarter Mile @ Talor Noam
Ben Gurion University of the Negev @ Talor Noam project- name - architect/office name Architects Bait HaLochem Shachaf Zait/Kimmel Eshkolot
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Minimal Fenestration For Climate Protection @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
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Light & Shadow @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
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Final proposal
Final proposal @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects project- name - architect/office name Architects Bait HaLochem Shachaf Zait/Kimmel Eshkolot
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Full 3D @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
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Entrence 3D @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
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Models
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Construction drawings
Section Plans @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
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(1) Main Pool (2) Overflow Gutter (3) Floor Tiles (4) Floor AC Grill (5) Air Plenum (6) Wooden Deck (7) Overflow gutter with wooden deck (8) Infant Pool (9) Mosaic Cladding (10) Steel Columns (11) Sliding Doors (12) Steel and aluminum system anchoring the sliding door and glass facade (13) Glass-Plate Facade (14) Glass-Plat Construction (15) Linear wooden ceiling: 60/180 cm panels, with isolation on top (16) Steel construction (17) Roof shielding from aluminum plates and isolation (18) Gutter (19) Aluminum Plates (20) Peripheral Steel Beam
Typical Section Details @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
Climate Protection Using Thermal Mass @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
Skylight Openings @ Kimmel Eshkolot Architects
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Building Process @ Amit Goren ASthought
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Photo gallery exteriors
Kid’s Pool @ Amit Goren project- name - architect/office name Architects Bait HaLochem Shachaf Zait/Kimmel Eshkolot
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Indoor Bridges @ Amit Goren
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Window @ Amit Goren
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Concrete wall @ Amit Goren 46
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Selected essay
City of Refuge
Concrete. On the Southwest corner of the Negev Brigade intersec-
Bait HaLochem, Be’er Sheva.
tion, on a plot opening up to the infinite desert, of the kind that
By: Omri Oz Amar
can be seen only in the Negev, ”Beit Halochem” (veterans’ home)
From: Domus Magazin, issue 13, may 2011, pg. 83-91.
has recently been built. Far from any other structure, surrounded by yellow loess, staring across the desert and the monument.
Gray. Be’er Sheva: parched and dusty even on a bleak winter day.
The building, meant to serve the public of disabled IDF veterans
A slow-moving city, sending its neighborhoods into wadis which
and their families from the area, is constructed entirely of
stretch toward the desert. Its canonical buildings blend the yellow
concrete, cast in sharp lines, clear and clean. The design of the
tint of dust with the grayness of bare concrete. The University, City
structure is simple: two stories integrally connected at several
Hall, Soroka Hospital, and ”Negev Center”, are all located on the
points, with five ”rock like units” of concrete, enabling vertical
main road of the city, all constructed of bare concrete.
circulation and elevators.
Someone arriving in Be’er Sheva from the west encounters traffic
The simplicity of the plan is evident. Since the entire structure is
circles decorated with fighter planes; from the south, an armored
adapted for veterans of different disabilities - blind, deaf and those
car from a distant war. In-between lies the city, which only two
confined to wheelchairs, visual clarity of movement is mandatory.
years ago, during Operation Cast Lead, suffered rounds of Grad
The points connecting the two interlocking levels, those ”rocky”
missile attacks. The Negev Brigade intersection, located at the
concrete monoliths, with rough surfaces of poured concrete, also
northeast entrance of the city, is also reminiscent of war - named
express a constructive and visual truth.
for the Negev Brigade monument by sculptor Dani Karavan, a landmark visible far and wide.
Each rock-like unit contains spaces for some of the various func-
The monument, a memorial as well as a huge environmental
tions of ”privacy” that the compound provides: from babysitting
sculpture which implores one to enter its spaces and experience
children of patients to clinics for body and soul. In expanses
it from within, embodies the two images: both the gray concrete
between the ”rocks”, like a deep river gorge, which becomes
and the terror of war. It is built of bare concrete, full of pathos and
narrower and sometimes expands, are scattered spaces for public
tenderness just as the desert itself. Like the desert it holds dust
functions: exercise room, indoor swimming pool and gathering
wherever the cement has eroded and, as the desert, the monu-
areas.
ment too overlooks the city.
Architect Shachaf Zait, who was architect-on-site, notes that
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”rocks” and ”gorges” symbolize the desert image surrounding the
respect to the Negev Brigade monument, located at a distance of
building. They represent a meeting of tenderness and hardness, of
only five hundred meters. Walking from the sculpture to the con-
dryness and spring water, accompanied by a diversion of diffract-
crete structure and back again to the sculpture one is impressed
ing sunlight. The designers transformed concrete into an ideal ma-
by the informed and constructive honesty, by the tenderness and
terial for design. Liquid in the beginning and rock-hard at the end,
stiffness, especially compassion and protection, evident both in
convenient for processing, visually uniform, and associated with
Beit Halochem as well as in the monument.
the architectural heritage of Be’er Sheva.
The ubiquitous use of concrete in the entire country and Be’er Sheva in particular, points to concrete as a perfect fusion of content,
Refuge. Concrete is a material with an organic character. It can be
construction and shape. All these features coalesce to produce a
shaped and molded according to requirements of the designer
physical and psychological refuge for disabled war veterans.
and it responds to erosion processes. It embodies softness and vulnerability, a kind of human dimension, and a capacity to be a refuge. The Negev monument reflects those qualities in an astounding manner. Not everyone is aware of the vulnerability of concrete and the defenselessness of home buyers. Most see its strength, and interpret its rigidity as controlling and dominating. We were inspired by the notion that ‘a cover of concrete and cement’ that dominates every tract of land, leads to an ideology of control over empty spaces. We were taught that bare concrete, direct and crude, is as insolent and insensitive as a Sabra (native Israeli). Even structures built of concrete did not always express its softness. There they are, cast in rigid patterns and oversized dimensions, while at the same time taking away from concrete its sincerity and construction potential they purport to show. In contrast, throughout Israel’s history, in spite of these attempts, we encounter concrete in simple daily use inside our homes - as safe rooms and as shelters that are routinely used for art classes in schools, for store rooms of old furniture and, in times of war, as playrooms for children in apartment buildings. These represent protecting and compassionate spaces we are building for use in our local and violent reality.
In this sense, use of concrete in Beit Halochem reflects closure with
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office presentation
Kimmel-Eshkolot Architects is an Israeli architecture firm, founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1986, by Etan Kimmel and Michal Kimmel-Eshkolot. Kimmel clusters is an Israeli architectural firm responsible for planning public and private projects many in Israel. The firm was founded in Tel Aviv in 1986 by Eitan Kimmel and Kimmel container - clusters. Early years the firm participated in the reconstruction and renewal of the historic Neve Tzedek neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Over the clusters Kimmel had several international design competitions architects Israel’s major public buildings, including: the expansion of the government complex in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Davidson Center, National Museum of Natural History Collections at the University of Tel Aviv, and a future Hall of Memory Fallen of Israel on Mount Herzl. In 2011, Kimmel clusters won the Rechter Prize for Architecture Home Design dogma Warrior Beersheba important architectural design of an accessible environment for disabled various kinds. “ Award judges commented on the building that he “displays architectural excellence from the exception to the individual and is an important example of an environment for architectural design accessible to those with disabilities of various kinds.” The project also won “Project of the Year” contest of writing - magazine “AI” and the EU. In 2012 it was reported that the Ministry Kimmel clusters, along with the Nitzan architects faint and Liran Chechik, won the competition to design a new building in Netanya Municipality.
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book editor presentation
Talor Noam, 1984, Born and raised in Be’er Sheva, Israel. Consider the desert as the beginning point and not as a limit - It can be the starting line and not the finish one. David Ben Gurion was the first prime minister and defense minister of Israel, loved the Negev and its expanses and his dream was to make the desert bloom and settle. This days, making the desert bloom, and keeping David Ben Gurion spirit means curiosity and desire to initiate and invent. An architecture student in Italy that want to combine the two strategic - the European one and the Mediterranean one.
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