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ECOWEEK 2013 Projects in Israel
Green Design Architecture & Urban Innovation
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WorKSHoP Leaders: Maciej Siuda (Architect, Devebere Project, Poland), dan Price (Architect, PPY Architects, Israel), Galia Hanoch-roe (Landscape Architect, Society for Protection of Nature, Israel) W2: The Mobile Forest on Rabin
Square “ The main public city square in front of the City Hall in Tel Aviv, the site of political rallies, parades, and public events. Renamed in 1995 following the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The workshop team worked closely with the City of Tel Aviv to design an installation to promote the city’s sustainability agenda.
The Mobile Forest concept is simple: In Tel Aviv, when outdoors, you look for shade. Especially in Rabin Square, where the only shaded areas are the cafes at the edge of the square. What if you can take your shade with you? Go to the square, decide where you want to sit, set up your mobile tree and enjoy outdoors in the shade, reading a book or chatting with your friends.
WorKSHoP consultants: Yoav david City Architect and uriel Babzyk Sustainability expert, Municipality of Tel Aviv.
WorKSHoP team: Dor Ben Arosh, Dan Bendori, Lir Danan, Rotem Levinson, Lee Machnay, Adi Meyerovitch, Nof Nathansohn, Eliah Rubin, Yasmin Rosa Shvarzglass Krauskopf, and Avinoam Sharon.
WorKSHoP Leaders: Byron Stigge (Engineer, Level Agency for Infrastructure, USA) and Elias Messinas (Architect, ECOAMA, Greece/Israel).
WorKSHoP consultants: Yoel Siegel (Community Building in a Global Society, Israel), Avner Haramati (Kidron Project, Israel), Philippe Piccapietra (Grand Chancellor and Delegate for the Holy Land, Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem) and Fatima Faroun (Shorouq Association, West Bank).
WorKSHoP team: Muhammad Osama Aburajab, Wala Mahmoud Mohammad Ayad, Luay Monzer Jamil Bader, Amitai Elul, Sirin Amin Hassan, Yishai Lehavi, Eirini Loukou, Inaam Ammar Sharawi, Rana Walid Zaher, and Pinelopi Zoura. W3: Sustainable Pilgrimage
in Αl-Azaryia “ The workshop project took place in Al-Azaryia (Bethany), in the West Bank, next to Jerusalem. Al-Azaryia is a small town of 17,000 residents, mostly Muslims, and home to St. Lazarus’ tomb, an important pilgrimage site. The town suffers today of environmental and urban challenges such as flooding, lack of proper sewage, water supply, waste and construction waste pollution, lack of public open spaces, and the separation wall. There is an urgent need to strengthen the local economy, increase tourist facilities and basic infrastructure, and encourage small scale development.
The team focused on the historic pilgrimage route from Jericho which leads through Al-Azaryia to Jerusalem. The proposed project aimed for this historic axis to become the main generator for the future – sustainable – development of the town, improving infrastructure, making important sites accessible, provide services and facilities for tourists, and new opportunities for the local economy.
The project was presented at the First International Jerusalem Symposium on Green & Accessible Pilgrimage, held on April 2126, 2013 at the Jerusalem YMCA.
ECOWEEK 2013 Projects in Israel
Green Design Architecture & Urban Innovation
WorKSHoP Leaders: uri Gilad (Architect, winhov, Holland & Switzerland) and Mati Kones (Architect, Ecotectura, Israel).
WorKSHoP consultants: Tel Aviv Municipality team.
WorKSHoP team: Arbelle Avi-Guy, Adi Gilad, Yadid Hadad, Simon Ashley Hatherly, Tal Mayo, Shachar Shapira, Yifaat Tabib, Revital Uzan, and Basel Zoabi. W5: Rehabilitating the Sipolux
Building in Tel Aviv “ In coordination with the goals of Tel Aviv Municipality, the workshop focused on the rehabilitation of the historic – and iconic - Sipolux building, a decaying factory building, in East Tel Aviv, to be turned into an urban sustainability center and the headquarters of ‘green’ organizations. The design challenges extended from linking the building back to its residential surroundings, to turning the building into a benefit to the visitors and the local community.
The team proposed a center that would engage residents, and visitors, designed based upon the principles of sustainable design. The team chose three ways to achieve it: (a) Offer inspirational experiences based on the themes of green living, recycling and renewable energy, through ecological trail routes through the building, including an auditorium, library, recycling facilities and children learning center. (b) The team took advantage of the visibility of the roof from adjacent taller apartment buildings, and proposed to turn the roof into a green roof garden, to become a new green social space. (c) The team aimed for the building to be a model of sustainable design, minimizing solar heat gain with shading canopies and printed glass sunscreens, and to provide an insulated envelope to minimize use of mechanical heating and cooling.
WorKSHoP Leaders: Yael Helfman cohen (Founder, Biomimicry, Israel), dr. daphne Haim Langford (Founder, Biomimicry, Israel), and Yair Engel (Designer, Cradle-to-Cradle, Israel).
WorKSHoP consultants: Yoav david City Architect and uriel Babzyk Sustainability expert, Municipality of Tel Aviv. W6: Biomimicry on the Edge of
“South Park in Tel Aviv The site was Begin Park (also known as South Park), a partially developed urban park with green and picnic areas, sports facilities, a lake, and a small zoo. The aim was to attract national scale tourism with leisure and educational activities.
The workshop team proposed an interactive educational park based on the principals of Biomimcry - or that examine nature, its systems and processes with the intention of deriving inspiration for human application.
The team proposed a series of interconnected installations activated by the visitors, for example using stationary bicycles, to operate a wheel to guide water to another installation. Activating the installations would teach visitors about ecology, efficient energy, use of bicycle for transportation and more.
WorKSHoP team: Liah Benarroch, Guy Nir, Tzlil Shai, Orly Shapira, Shir Talor, and Hadar Urkin.
ECOWEEK 2013 Projects in Copenhagen, Denmark
New Nordic Living
On May 13-19, 2013 ECOWEEK took place for the first time in Copenhagen, Denmark, initiated, organized and hosted at the KEA School of Design and Technology. The workshops studied and proposed ideas in real sites throughout the city, aiming to regenerate and restore public space, especially in areas where immigrant communities live. The diverse group of keynote speakers and workshop leaders guided the 330 students that participated in the conference and workshops, included architect daniel Pearl (Canada), architect ulf Meyer (Germany), architects Braha Kunda and ohad Yehieli (Israel), landscape architects raffaella colombo (Italy) and Natalia Pantelidou (Greece), architect Agnieszka Wojcik (Poland), industrial designer Andriano de Luca (Brazil), architects thomas ringhof and Michael Angelo Johansen (Denmark). Out of the 23 workshop projects presented, the City of Copenhagen chose 17 projects to be further developed and realized.
W1.5: Μade in Nordvest
WorKSHoP Leaders: talia dorsey (Architect, Canada) and Søren Parrot (Architect, Denmark)
WorKSHoP team: Jesper Friis Aamand, Peter Beier, Tomasz Giefert, Henrik Peter Hansen, Nicki Falk Hansen, Nima Karimzadeh, Zuzana Krejcirova, Marco Puggaard Norup, Eva Strocholcova, and Ervin Suljadzic. W1.5: Made in Nordvest The workshop focused on the site of Rentemestervej in Copenhagen. Following a creative brainstorming, the team identified problems in the area, primarily that people don’t spend time outdoors because there is a lack of benches, playgrounds and outdoor places to meet and spend time. The local community comes from different countries, cultures, and have a variety of interests. But they don’t have occasions to meet other people and thus are alienated, and feel unsafe. The street is more of a shortcut, where people use alone, riding a bike or jogging, without caring for the surroundings and other people.
In terms of physical conditions there are 8 blocks of flats with large badly organized green spaces between them. Many backyards are open, some fenced, unused by people. Urban conditions that do not generate urban use, such as empty plots after demolition, rubbish, courtyards opening to the street, large car parks, empty spaces, wide badly maintained pavements. Despite existing conditions, there is great potential for change. Local business are starting to appear in organized backyards, and local organizations and institutions are making a difference in the neighborhood.
The group proposed a variety of small scale interventions, including creating new shops and cafes, initiating a street market, dedicating a site for urban agriculture, painting building facades, improving the sidewalks, creating outdoor pockets for people to spend outdoors, and more.
W1.10: Green Love for Copenhagen
WorKSHoP Leaders: Jon Emil Stenz (Development Engineer, Denmark) and Andriano de Luca (Industrial Designer, Brazil).
WorKSHoP team: Mark Andersen, Carlos Ramos Fernandez, Pontus Jakobsson, Pernille Bisgaard Kristensen, Artis Kurps, Filip Lindmark, Tamlyn Yuki Shkabukuro, Lucas Terra, Jon Drejer Tittmann, and Love Wige.
W1.10: Green Love for copenhagen The workshop team focused on the problem of getting people to recycle in public spaces. How to increase accessibility and personal responsibility and how to improve the interaction between the user and the recycling bin. With Copenhagen aiming to become carbon neutral by 2025, waste management is a major issue to be overcome t reach the goal.
The team searched for a solution that enhances visibility, userfriendliness, space-efficiency and consistency, and to educate the users. The solution, called Green Love, designed to fit the regural lighting-poles and bicycle-rests, aims to motivate and activate people to recycle, using iconic design, awareness campaigns and informal education.
W2.6: Therapy Garden for Immigrant Women
WorKSHoP Leaders: Natalia Pantelidou (Landscape Architect, Greece)
WorKSHoP team: Sander Lund Alexandersen, Mette Nitsche, Adrian Oprea, Awilla Posay, Timea Puskas, Leonardo Nazario Rosa, Wen Wang, and Jing Zhang.
W2.6: therapy Garden for Immigrant Women The site of the garden is Biespbjerg Bakke, an area of Copenhagen with cultural diversity. The purpose of the garden was to assist in the healing process for immigrant women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through interaction with nature.
The designed folllowed FAKTI Association for Refugee and Immigrant Women guidelines and suggested less demanding environments, plurality of choices, privacy, variety of senses, and acttivities.
The design of the garden activated all senses and experience, provided choices by offering private areas for personal therapy and open areas for social activities - painting, music, cooking, fish feedin, and gardening.
ECOWEEK 2013 Projects in Krakow, Poland
Design • Innovation • Expreiment • Life Style
On October 21-27, 2013 ECOWEEK took place in Krakow, Poland as an international seven-day Think-Tank. Bringing together 100 young architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, industrial designers, from Poland, Holland, Germany, Ukraine, Spain, Iran, and Canada, it addressed challenges in architecture, urbanism, industrial and social design. The workshops worked with the City of Krakow, and produced innovative and experimental concepts for the city to create new public spaces, redesign and revolutionize existing buildings, create new pedestrian promenades and green belts, propose new uses of existing areas and new ways of perceiving urban-living.
The international group of keynote speakers and workshop leaders included chris doray (Chris Doray Studio, Canada), Bostjan Vuga (Sadar+Vuga, Slovenia), Ado Franchini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Ivana Pasecna and Peter Pasecny (2ka, Slovakia), thomas Kauertz (Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany), Emanuele Naboni (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark), Michiel Smits and Gie Steenput (Avans Hogeschool, Netherlands), Anna Gulińska (Austria). Mihaela Hărmănescu (University of Architecture and Urban Planning Ion Mincu, Romania), and Agata Woźniczka and Mateusz Adamczyk (BudCud, Poland).
W3.1: First Skyscraper for the City of Krakow
WorKSHoP Leaders: chris doray (Canada), Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz (Poland), Emanuele Naboni (Denmark).
WorKSHoP team: Michael Blanke, Marc-Andre Dening, Nina van Geffen, Agnieszka Janus, Michał Krawczyński, Hengameh Mazhari, Johanna Neumann, Marta Ożóg, Piotr Pasierbinski, Aleksandra Prawda, Kuba Senkowski, Damian Szyjka, and Nazlee Markowsky.
W3.1: First Skyscraper for city of Krakow The workshop focused on the existing tower from the 1960s - commonly referred to as The Skeleton, the highest built structure in the City of Krakow, a building that was never completed, yet assumed an iconic presence in the skyline of the city. Today, it is a vacant tower covered in advertisement banners on the façades. The challenge was is to dismantle the psychological notions of a ‘doomed skyscraper’ from the past and re-invent a vertical icon that sustains and promotes longevity rather than termination. What then would be the first Skyscraper in Krakow? The workshop aimed to redesign and redefine it and bringing it back into use. The proposed new vertical parasite behaves like a hybrid between a monumental eco-catalytic converter and a research facility for atmospheric harvesting. The proposed design suggests a re-purposing of the Skeleton Tower into an Eco-Skyscraper that neutralizes airborne dirt particles and reduces the level of air pollution in the city.
WorKSHoP Leaders: thomas Kauertz (Germany), Kinga Racoń-Leja (Poland), and Eliza Szczerek (Austria).
WorKSHoP team: Karolina Batog, Monika Chrapczyńska, Anna Franczyk, and Magdalena Kaczor.
W3.2: School at Skwerowa street: re-design, re-define and reuse The goal of this workshop was to develop ideas for the re-design of an existing gymnasium. The program was re-defined to infuse a kindergarten alongside a gymnasium. The new re-use of spaces would be energized with the inclusion of green spaces in and around the existing facility and adapting it to the green belt along the river’s edge. The objective was to reinstate characteristics of the origins of an educational institution where doors were open to experimentation, which would have a positive impact on the final output and performance of the students.
W3.3: Design Mission
WorKSHoP Leaders: Maciej Jagielak (Poland), and Franciszka Jagielak (Poland).
WorKSHoP team: Serap Beynal, Justyna Buczkowska, Oksana Dufeniuk, Agnieszka Jurczak, Konrad Jurek, Johanna Neumann, Mitchel van Ostaijen, Aleksandra Płaczek, Joanna Ryś, and Rick de Vries.
W3.3: design Mission Samuel Mockbee used to say that “Architecture is a social art”. The workshop was inspired by the Rural Studio in Alabama, which he established, and how students learn to design and help local communities by designing and building hands-on. So, the workshop aimed to ‘import’ the Rural Studio spirit of education to Krakow and engage in both a design challenge and a hands-on project for the local community. The chosen site was the backyard of a charity day-center called SALTROM. The group wanted to leave its positive footprint to the community after the end of the workshop. The scope of the proposed workshop project was to divide up the time as 20% in studio brainstorming and draft designing, and 80% in situ interviewing and meeting the community and doing hands-on work. The work will include cleaning walls, repairing existing plaster, re-painting, building street furniture out of wood and salvaged materials, and focusing and responding to the actual needs of the community. The group took into account a small budget for materials and tools, although most came from re-use and recycling.
ECOWEEK 2013 Projects in Istanbul, Turkey
Crossing the Bridge Between Tradition and Vision
In November 18-22, 2013 ECOWEEK took place for the first time in Istanbul, Turkey, hosted and organized by the Mimar Sinan University team of faculty and students that included Prof. Sema Ergonul, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Guzin Konuk, Selin Gundes, Selda Karaosman, Imre Ozbek Eren, Inci Olgun, Umit Arpacioglu, Merve Ozyurt, Aylin Ayna, Mehtap Leyla Turanalp and Adem Erdem Erbas. With 25 workshops of diverse themes addressing challenges in the city and the urban space, the event keynote speakers and workshop leaders included ray Green (Australia), Pippo ciorra and Paolo Brescia (Italy), Abram de Boer (Holland), ulf Meyer (Germany), thomas doxiadis (Greece), and duygu Erten (Turkey).
W7: Εcorridors Istanbul
WorKSHoP Leaders: Feride ohal (Turkey), Sinan Izgi (Turkey), Serhat Basdogan (Turkey) and Alexander van der Meer (Holland).
WorKSHoP team: Azat Akmuradov, Eda Aytekin, Begüm Eneren, Simay Ezer, Ayşe Nisa Kılıç, Ayşegül Kutlu, Timuçin Kaan Manço, Canan Oduncu, Özge Tekçe, and Yağmur Tansu Uğurel.
W7: Ecorridors Istanbul The workshop group focused on the Kabatas Karakoy areas and identified 3 aspects of urban space: pedistrian paths, traffic roads and green axes. The premise of the workshop was that all the living organisms need adequate space to live in. When cities are planned and develop they also have to consider about how to allow open space for living organisms. In most cases, urban sprawl takes over open green space, fragmenting the continuity of open spaces. İt is not necessary to choose ‘either or’ since it is possible to have ‘both and’ forms living together: the urban fabric of the city and open nature.
The workshop proposal is to create eco-bridge with the urban city fabric, which connect the different sides of habitat.
W23: Green Model Green Future
WorKSHoP Leaders: umit Arpacioglu (Turkey) and dogukan Erdogan (Turkey).
WorKSHoP team: Ozlem Altuntas, Aysenur Bas, Muge Baysal, Derya Ciftnamli, Hasan Emre Eken, Umit Can Gok, Sila Kanyar, Hazel Kazkayasi, Tugce Nur Koyuncu, Demet Oksuz, Ezgi Polat, Hilal Sahin, Ceyda Seh, Hulja Seh, and Kevser Yuzuguldu.
W23: Green Model Green Future The workshop focused on Tongurlar village of adobe houses, aiming to provide new ideas for protection and renovation projects of traditional villages. It was further developed and turned into the exhibition ‘Central Anatolia Adobe Architecture Research Exhibition’. Traditional architecture in many regions of Turkey face big risks as a result of the present rapidly changing and evolving transportation network. Increasing accessibility to currently inaccessible regions, may lead to the loss of valuable heritage which, due to its inaccessible location, is today on the sidelines. The workshop looked at a specific village aiming to develop principles for possible development that can apply to other similar villages. These principles included: transformation of existing buildings for new uses; addition of new modules providing more spaces, and offering alternatives for ecotourism. The workshop proposal focused on a one-hundred-old adobe vacant house to be reused in two possible scenarios: workshop area and weekend house, providing contemporary living and comfort conditions.
W25: Bridging Polarities in the City of Bridges W27: Integrating Social Spaces at Beyoglu
WorKSHoP Leaders: Ebru Erbaş Gürler (Turkey) and thomas doxiadis (Greece).
WorKSHoP team: Selin Arslan, Papatya Bostancı, Julie Brun, Melda Can, Mattia Giandomenici, Dimitra Grigoriou, Irem Karadeniz, Diellza Kolgeci, Antigoni Lampadiari, Julie Lavayssiere, Berk Alp Özdemir, Julian Seyda, Despoina Siamanti, Theodora Spathi, Katharina Süraka, and Doğa Duygu Uslu. WorKSHoP Leaders: ozlem unver (Turkey), Simge ozdal oktay (Turkey), and Abram de Boer (Holland).
WorKSHoP team: Muge Akgunes, Emine Atalay, Merve Azgin, Burcu Balci, Seyma Dugan, Aslihan Hasancebi, Hazal Naz Karamanoglu, Duygu Kocer, Demet Kolay, Selen Payli, Sule Tekkol, Cansev Rakipsiz, Dilan Saray, and Elif Tezel.
W25: Bridging Polarities in the city of Bridges The workshop focused on Goksu area, with historic sites – such as the Anatolian fortress – an old factory, upscale housing and squatters’ housing. The workshop aimed to address antithetical conditions, viewpoints and needs, such as the urban and the rural, the manmade and the natural, the static and the dynamic, where all come together in cities, successfully or unsuccessfully. In Istanbul, in particular, the land and the sea, Europe and Asia come together, making this an eternal city of bridges. How landscapes should be designed to link such polarities in a sustainable way, both practically and symbolically? The workshop focused on ‘bridging between the present and a sustainable future’. By identifying polarities such as social and economic, place and non-place, ecological and safety, the workshop proposed bridging the different social and economic groups, creating eco-corridors to connect between urban and natural, providing eco-awareness, and using existing buildings – for example an existing abandoned factory – into an open market, and proposed storm water control systems based on small-scale economical and more natural systems. W27: Integrating Social Spaces at Beyoglu The workshop worked on the Beyoğlu, a district located on the European side of İstanbul, separated from the old city by the Golden Horn. The district encompasses other neighborhoods located north of the Golden Horn, including Galata (the medieval Genoese citadel), Tophane, Cihangir, Şişhane, Tepebaşı, Tarlabaşı, Dolapdere and Kasımpaşa, and is connected to the old city center across the Golden Horn through the Galata Bridge, Atatürk Bridge and Golden Horn. Parallel to İstiklal Avenue runs Tarlabaşı Caddesi Boulevard, which carries most of the traffic through the area. The streets on either side of this road contain historic buildings and churches. The once cosmopolitan areas surrounding them have deteriorated. Beyoğlu is the most active art, entertainment and nightlife center of Istanbul, and the site of three big parks. The workshop studied the relationships between green system, traffic systems and the built area, and came up with a ‘master plan’ for the area, proposing new green spaces, new green roofs and facades, a new tram line, ands new trees to line up existing urban axes.
