Itaico's Portfolio by Itai Cohen

TU Delft Application for MS.c in Architecture and Building Technology, Sep. 2009

Itay Cohen

Portfolio 2005-2009

Projects:

Mt. Carmel Visitor center

5th. semester

Lotus: Mobile sustainable market stall

7th. semester

Community V2.0:Temporary exhibition at Beth Hatefutsoth Museum

Israel Prime-ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence

8th. semester

Suk-&-Cook:

8th. semester

Conversion of an abandoned theatre to a youth hostel

Stair design of an Apple store

Partly Cloudy: Proposition for the Bat-Yam Biannale of Urban Landscape

Appendices:

ResumĂŠ

Letters of Recommendation

4th. semester

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Table Of Contents

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Project Description

Type

Role

Tutors/Employers

Semester

Grade

001A11/05

Entrance, passage, precinct

Introduction to Architecture

Personal project

Raquel Rapaport Nati Rotem Hadas Shadar

1st

002A04/06

Decay and renewal in the City

Introduction to Urban Design

Group project (4 members)

Raquel Rapaport Nati Rotem Hadas Shadar

2nd

003A07/06

Student community dwelling

Architecture

Personal project

Raquel Rapaport Nati Rotem Hadas Shadar

2nd

100

004A07/06

Chair design

3D Design

Personal project

Belo Fainero

2nd

005C09/06

LightObjects - core77.com

Product Design

Personal competition

006A02/07

Mt. Carmel visitors center

Architecture Public Building

Personal project

Yoram Popper Dalia Zmora

3rd

007A02/07

Small commercial store

Architecture Commerce

Personal project

Guy Arbel Doron Minin Abed Badaran

3rd

008A02/07

Product design - Kitchenware

Product Design

Personal project

Arie Franco

3rd

009A07/07

Urban dwelling at the 2050’s

Architecture Residential

Group project (2 members)

Dalia Zmora Dan Shumni

4th

010A07/07

Detailed stair design

Architecture Detailing

Personal project

Guy Arbel Doron Minin Abed Badaran

4th

100

011P08/07

Balustrade system for the old city of Acre Acre, Israel

Conservation / Landscape

Architect-in-charge, draftsman, coordinator

Yoram Popper Architects

012P09/07

“A” Factory for Flextronics Israel Migdal Hae’emek, Israel

Architecture Industrial

3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

013P09/07

Booms residence Beit Hanania, Israel

Architecture Housing

Design team, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

014P10/07

Lustig residence Herzlya, Israel

Architecture Housing

Design team, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

015C01/08

Temporary installation at BH museum

Art Installation

Personal competition

1st Prize

016A02/08

Mt. Carmel visitors center

Architecture Public Building

Personal project

Michael Budowski Dan Shumni

5th

017A07/08

Building in historic environment in the old city of Haifa

Architecture Conservation

Group project (3 members)

Liora Baram Shahal Yoram Popper

6th

Project Description

Type

Role

Tutors/Employers

Semester

Grade

Honorable mention 4th. Place

7th

018P10/08

Custom guard shack - Flextronics Israel factory complex Migdal Hae’emek, Israel

Architecture Industrial

Architect-in-charge, coordinator, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

019P10/08

“B” Factory for Flextronics Israel Migdal Hae’emek, Israel

Architecture Industrial

Design team, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

020C11/08

Umm-El-Fahem Museum for Contemporary Palestinian Art Umm-El-Fahem, Israel

Architecture Public Building Competition

3D rendering, presentation

Yoram Popper Architects with SO Architecture

021A12/08

Conversion of a 1930’s office building to residential uses - Master class by Finnish architect Kaisa Blumstedt

Architecture Re-use / Residential

Group project (4 members)

Kaisa Blumstedt

022C01/09

Mobile sustainable market stall

Product Design Competition

Group project (2 members)

Eyal Malka Yair Angel

7th

92 2nd Prize

023A02/09

High density dwelling in the city of Tiberiades

Architecture Residential

Personal project

Baruch Baruch Irit Tzaraf Netanyahu Liran Chechick

7th

024A07/09

Israel Prime Minister’s residence

Architecture Public Building

Group project (2 members)

Baruch Baruch Irit Tzaraf Netanyahu Liran Chechick

8th

025A07/09

Conversion of a cinema theatre to a hostel

Architecture Reuse

Group project (3 members)

Lenka Cederbaum Eyal Malka

8th

026P08/09

Expansion of the Hungarian Jewry Culture Museum Safed, Israel

Architecture Public Building / Conservation

Coordinator ,design team, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

027P08/09

Shadmi residence Mishmar David, Israel

Architecture Housing

Design team, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

028C08/09

Bat-Yam Biannale of Urban Landscape

Experimental Urbanscape Design

Group competition (5 members)

Pending Judgment

030P10/09

“C” Factory for Flextronics Israel Migdal Hae’emek, Israel

Architecture Industrial

Design team, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

031P11/09

Expansion of WIZO College of design

Architecture Public Building

Coordinator ,design team, 3D spacial studies, visualization, detailing, drafting

Yoram Popper Architects

§ How to read the Code: *021A12/08 :

* - Appears in the portfolio || 021 - Serial Number || A - Academic Project, C - Competition, P - Professional Practice || 12/08 - Month/Year (December 2008)

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Mt. Carmel National Park Visitors Center Project Description Date of presentation Tutors Costruction

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016A02/08

Design of a visitor center for the Mt. Carmel National Park 2/2008 5th semester Arch. Yoram Popper, Arch. Michael Budowski, Arch. Dan Shumni Dr. Rosa Frances

Site and Context The site is located on the Israeli coastal plane, about 10 Kilometers from the city of Haifa. Located near a junction between interstate no. 4 to Tel-Aviv and a beautiful road climbing up the mountain, the site contains the bank of Nahal Oren, a small water stream which is dry most of the year, but can cause floods during heavy rains. The site also features at present an improvised parking lot, a small information post and a picnic area. The site is popular, and used especially during weekends and holidays by families wishing to spend some time in the open, enjoy a picnic and/or follow one of the many nearby trails.

Programme

The project’s aim was to design a visitor center that would function as a gateway and information post for the users of the site and the entire mt. Carmel natural reserve and natural park. The exact site of the building was not given, and each student had to place the building in the place they thought was most suitable. The building programme was as follows; • A 150 m² entrance hall (including: information desk, environmental display area, staff room and toilets) • A 150 m² cafeteria/restaurant area • A 150 m² auditorium • 3 x 50 m² classes • 200 m² display area • 150 m² library • 100 m² store (for maps, books and accessories) • Several Gathering places for groups

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Site Plan

Existing hiking path leading form the improvised parking lot (A) to the picnic area (C). B is a small plateau that the path crosses. This is the site I picked for the building.

1. The Building as a Passage The building acts as a Passage. It’s built around the existing path, not interfering with it. The rock and gravel path acts as the ground floor. The first door the visitor goes through is at the entrance to each of the functions 2. Emphasizing Contrast The building is planned as a ’foreign object’, different to nature. The design tries (using materials and morphology) to contrast with nature rather than blend into it. The design should have a mechanical appearance, to emphasize that it is a man made object that was placed in nature. 3. Disintegratable Building I believe buildings shouldn’t last forever, especially when building next to nature. Most of my design consists of easily assembled and disassembled parts. All my connections are bolted (not welded) thus providing the ability to easily take the building apart. After taking the building apart, the only remains on the site would be several foundation concrete tops, 15cm in height. 4. Modular Building As a disintegratable building it should also be flexible enough for programmatic changes; addition or subtraction of functions as well as changes in function locations. The building is built on a fixed regular grid, on which modules can be mounted. The building is designed to use as few kinds of parts as possible. Most parts have several functions. 5. Minimal Footprint In order to cause as little damage as possible to the surroundings, the building is floating over the column grid. The building doesn’t change the neutral water flow pattern or the terrain. 6. Indoor / Outdoor The building is designed not to give a clear definition of interior space or exterior space.

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Design Concepts

Plans

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Functions: Auditorium Library / information post Classroom Cafeteria Staff room Toilet Hall / Lobby Patio and sculpture garden Untamed nature

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Details: A Louvered Roof B Transparent PC roof with vanes C Transparent PC faรงade with internal cladding D Opening faรงade modules E Bracing F Terce G Ramp H Leveling with gravel I Timber poles J Sculptures

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10m

+1.00 Plan

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01 A

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+4.40 Plan / Roof Plan

Faรงades

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03 09

North faรงade

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Functions: Auditorium Library / information post Classroom Cafeteria Staff room Toilet Hall / Lobby Patio and sculpture garden Untamed nature

Details: A Louvered Roof B Transparent PC roof with vanes C Transparent PC faรงade with internal cladding D Opening faรงade modules E Bracing 0

2.5m

B A

Stream bank

West faรงade

East faรงade

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View from north-west

Construction documents

Assembly axonometric

Section A-A - construction

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Section A-A

Details - Columns In order to cause as little damage to the rock surface upon which the building is built, most of the building â&#x20AC;&#x153;restsâ&#x20AC;? on small concrete podiums (A type columns). On several locations, where the weight on a particular column is especially heavy a narrow and deep foundation is cast underneath the concrete podium (B type columns). The rest of the columns are connected to the bracing system, and transfer vertical forces to the ground (C type columns)

Type A Type B Type C

Constructive members Bracing system

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Details - Floor and wall systems Many thought was given to the wall, roof and floor systems on this project, since they are the mediators between indoor space and the nature outside. I believe that in the given context, the building should give a variety of situations that define space and its closure on the scale from outdoor to indoor. The louvered roof defines space by providing shade, then sections of floor are added and only then come the walls, that differ in their level of transparency. Since the site is located in a west faced valley by the sea, it has great breeze all year long, which is a rare advantage in the hot and humid Mediterranean climate. The openings in the walls are important for both blurring the boundary between in and out, but also allow the breeze to enter and save energy spent on cooling. I wanted to allow the Façades to literally open up. The basic facade module is made of an external transparent PC thermal extrusion, followed by recycled OSB cladding. They are supported by ‘T’ shaped profiles, that are mounted to the floor and ceiling RHS beams. The opening system is composed of two engines and gear shafts per module, separately pulling both curtain systems upward. The PC envelope folds outwards and shades the opening, while the interior cladding folds inwards, leaving its lower part fixed as a safety rail. The floor is mounted on corrugated steel sheets, supported by the dual RHS200 steel beams. The tiles are made of a shredded tires rubber cast, offering a good acoustic absorbing anti-drum surface. As the building is disintegratable, all connections are temporarily bolted and can be easily dismantled.

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Thermal PC roof Heat extracting vanes Electric rolling blinds Air conditioning RHS200 beam North faced fixed louvers 2 RHS200 beams T profile Recycled rubber tile Corrugated steel sheets Neon lighting fixtures OSB cladding Opening module Column Foot

09 08

Partial plan 02 01

03 04 06

14 Fixed

Opening

Curtain wall detailed plan

Typical Section

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01 02 03 04

05 06 07

Floor and wall details

Floor system: Stainless steel screws Recycled rubber tile Steel plate L50x50 frame 12mm steel rod 5mm steel plate Corrugated steel sheets

Wall system: A Full module B Half transparent module C Opening module

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01 02 03 04 05 06 07

East façade Fixed louvered roof ‘+’ Shaped column Staff room Cafeteria Cafeteria Ramp ‘X’ Bracing Shell Opening

01 02

07 04

Wall Section

A External hollow PC 40mm extrusion. Weather sealed. B Internal OSB cladding C Motor D T140 profile E 2xRHS200 beams Openings System: The external PC envelope lifts and folds at three points, enabling the wall to open and provide shade. The internal cladding lifts in the same manner inwards, starting at a height of 120cm, thus leaving a fixed safety rail.

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Sketches

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LOTUS - Sustainable Mobile Market Stall Project Description Date of presentation Tutors Design Team: Status:

Competition entry for the Jerusalem Seminar of architecture 2/2009 7th semester Arch. Eyal Malka, Industrial Designer Yair Engel Itay Cohen, Orith Fish 2nd Prize winner

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022C01/09

Concepts

3 2 7 1 4 5 6 7 Side

8 2 7 1 6 4 3 7 5 Top

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1.0 Pole 1.1 Tube connector 2.0 Pole extender 3.0 Canopy 4.0 Central Hub 4.1 Fixed replaceable ring 4.2 Axis 4.3 Bolt 4.4 Hub connector 4.5 Rubber top 5.0 Central Tube 6.0 Petals 6.1 Reinforcement belt 6.2 Nylon net cell bottom 6.3 Fabric sleeve 7.0 Belt 7.1 Buckle 7.2 Lower belt connections 7.3 End of belt 8.0 Pin connector 8.1 Fabric â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tube double connection 9.0 Leg 10 Feet

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The Product

Assembly

A. Folded for transport: the stand contains all components for its assembly. B. Unfolded: the extension, the tubes, and petals are separated C. Using belts: legs are tensioned into a stable form. D. Assembling the extension: the canopy remains unopened. E. Slipping on the petals: the fabric is attached to the tubes. F. Opening the Petals: the fabric tightens and locks the cells to place G. Extending the canopy: by separating the poles the fabric is tensioned. H. Stabilizing the structure: by fastening the belts, the stand is ready for use.

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Details

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Community V2.0 - Temporary Exhibition at Beth Hatefutsoth Museum Project Description Date of presentation Programming: Status:

Competition entry for Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of Jewish Diaspora 1/2008 Ariel Gutman 1st Prize winner Due to lack of funding, it has not been built, bar the prototypes of lighting system and computer program

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Background: The Museum

“Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish People, tells the unique and ongoing story of the Jewish People, a People among nations, and describes the special bond between the Jewish People and Israel. The museum presents thousands of years of a flourishing, multifaceted culture, bringing to life the unity that underlies the diversity of the Jewish civilization. The story of the Jewish people is told through the permanent exhibition – now going through a process of renewal – as well as through temporary exhibitions, educational activities, and rich digital database resources of Jewish genealogy, family names, communities, photographs, films, and Jewish music.”

- Quoted from the museums web site.

Beth Hatefutsoth, or “The House of Diaspora” is a museum which tells the story of the Jewish people since it’s forming and until the present days. Located at the Tel Aviv University’s campus, the museum is one of the most famous museums in Israel, and receives a large amount of visitors annually. When opened, in the late 1970’s, it was considered to be at the cutting edge of audio-visual installations and exhibitions. Beth Hatefutsoth is a museum without any originals, it represents its story with models and audio-visual presentations and installations. The museum also provides a very detailed Genealogy database, allowing visitors to find their relatives and family tree. For farther information: http://www.bh.org.il/

During the last several years, the museum has been undergoing many renovations and modifications of both the exhibitions and museum’s structures. A new 3 story wing was built, but only its first floor is opened to the public due to a lack of funding. A glazed elevator on steel construction would connect the 3 stories. Since the top 2 stories are bound to be closed for the next 5 years or so, the museum decided to initiate a competition for the design of the existing elevator shaft (the shaft and steel construction were built without the elevator itself ). The winning installation would be temporarily set in that space, until the museum would open the top floors. The following installation won the competition on January 2008, but unfortunately the museum was unable to fund it, thus it was never built.

The New wing

Ground Floor Plan 01 02 03 04 05 A

Entrance 24 hour Cafe Exhibitions Auditorium Elevator Shaft 5m

10m

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Analysis

Today, Beth Hatefutsoth speaks mainly of the past. Its main display is the “remembrances shaft” a three stories high dramatic space, dedicated to those who died during the holocaust in Europe. The museums main theme and concern is the perpetuation of Jewish communities, existing and extinct, around the world. The place is both physically and emotionally disconnected form the present. It has failed to preserve its spirit of innovation through the years. What was once considered cutting edge is now obsolete. If the museum desires to attract and make the current generation feel connected to its exhibitions, it would have to evolve in content and concept. I felt the museum is so invested in the past, that there’s very little focus on present communities and absolutely none to future communities that may evolve. In order to help them, I had to find out what makes a community, and how does a contemporary community look like.

Concepts

What does a community looks like today? In recent years the world is undergoing a major communications revolution. The word “community” has extended its meaning, and now applies to many new ways to bring people together. Communities are no longer bounded to a single physical location, and can occur and be maintained from afar. The internet in general and the social network applications in particular allow people to better communicate and create or maintain communities. These communities revolve around many aspects of life, one of them is religion. Many virtual communities are defined by their participants religion. These communities allow people to share pictures, thoughts and ideas. There are many platforms that allow these kinds of communication such as Facebook, Myspace, Orkut and more. Before the internet, the synagog was the only communal meeting place, but now, there’s a new alternative

The new communities are based upon computer communication in social networks. The most common of them is facebook. The ‘Israel’ network on facebook, is growing by several thousands per month. In traditional communities as well as in virtual ones, people unite through commons: interests, location and of course – religion. If you type the word ‘Jew’ in the facebook database search field, you would find hundreds of groups, united by their religion. For instance; The Jews of Lebanon, 6,000,000 Jews – Memorial Group, I bet I can find 1,000,000 Jews, Kiss me I’m Jewish, And hundreds more.

03 This graph is a generative computer visualization of my social networks, as recorded by Facebookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Servers. Each dot represent a friend of mine, and the lines are stretched between persons who are friends with each other as well as with me. This graph can provide us with plenty of information. For example, the circular cluster (01) represents friends form my compulsory military service, where everybody knows each other - most friends are common since we lived together very closely and intensively. While in contrast, the more eccentric clusters represent friends form my academic studies (02) and high school (03). You can easily see that there are far less common friends and these communities are not as dense.

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The Proposal

01 02 04

Partial plan

I proposed to connect Beth Hatefutsoth to a social network, allowing people to express their link to Judaism. By connecting Beth Hatefutsoth to the “Facebook” database, the exhibition could show schematically how many people that signed up are currently on-line, thus engaging in communal activity at every single moment. The installation consists of a special mesh of high power lamps, showing the percentage of people on-line, an internet application that is integrated with the facebook database, a large monitor – sunken under glass floor, showing pictures of facebook users with their friends and an internet camera transmitting live video of Beth Hatefutsoth to the internet. Visitors to Beth Hatefutsoth would see the ever changing light mesh from a far, upon approach; they would notice the glass floor and the monitor. When they would step on the glass floor they would reach the exhibit’s climax: they would see the pictures on the monitor and the light mesh reflecting on the glass floor.

04 01

First floor

Enterance level

02 01 Spacial stainless steel mesh, Fixed with 3 watt RGB LED lights 02 Computer monitor mounted under glass floor 03 Web camera mounted on top of the shaft 04 RHS construction (existing)

Section through shaft

Users install the Community V2.0 application on their facebook profile page. II The server, located in the museum, consistently monitors the amount of users logged-in and their location on earth. III The server calculates the percentage of users that are online out of the total amount of people that installed the application. IV Electronic signals are sent to the color LED mesh by the server, enabling it to display using itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4000 emitters the relative number of people that are currently online. As the amount of emitters represents the number of users, the hue represents the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s location by continent. V The Server locates pictures with two tagged people or more, and shows them on the sunken monitor VI A web camera captures the space around the installation, and broadcasts it back to the users profile page I

Night view

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How does it work?

The monitor, seen through the glass floor, while reflecting the installationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full hight

Status: Unfortunately, after winning the competition, it became clear that the museum could not afford to build the installation. For several months the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff and I tried to find sponsors and donors in vain. At the same time, I was in touch with several companies that could build that project. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve built a lighting fixture prototype, and tested it on site. In addition, a working prototype for the facebook application was programed and tested.

Day view

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Initial sketch

View from the reception hall to the protest square

Israel Prime-Ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Residence Project Description

Date of presentation Tutors Design team

Protest project to contrast official design for the Prime Minister's residence and headquarters. Initiated by me. 7/2009 8th semester Arch. Baruch Baruch, Arch Irit Tzaraf Netanyahu, Arch Liran Chechik Itay Cohen, Boaz Dimand

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Background and Motivation

Carmi’s Proposal

On January 2009 the plans for the construction of the new prime-minister’s official residence and headquarters were presented to the public. The design was done by Ram Carmi, after winning a closed competition. Carmi is one of Israel’s most influential architects; he has designed many public and government buildings, including the Israeli supreme court. The building suffered unprecedented criticism among colleagues as well as by the general public. Most of it revolved around the lack of relation to its context, its shape and its design. But most of all it drew public attention for it’s budget estimate: around 650 million NIS - the equivalent of 125 million Euro. Carmi’s proposal, being monumental and oddly shaped, was severely critiqued and even ridiculed by many newspapers, architects and the general public. Israeli architects resented the fact that the design competition was open only to a few well established architectural firms, and not an anonymous open and public competition. However, none of the critics offered any alternative other than canceling the project.

Project Presentation

When the design was published, I was about to begin my 8th semester, tutored by arch. Baruch Baruch, head of the department of Architecture. As the subject was brought to the limelight and thoroughly discussed by architects, I came up with an idea to make a studio in relation to that debate: to take the original competition’s programme and site, and design alternatives to Carmi’s design. Fortunately, the head of the department and my classmates were thrilled with the idea, and thus this studio project was born. The project’s final presentation fascinated many architects that came as guests, and was held in a very wide and honored forum. I am currently working on organizing a public exhibition in a gallery in Tel Aviv, as well as an online presentation. The project was very challenging, as in addition to being an extremely complicated building to design in terms of movement axis, security separations and the extremely large scale of the building (30,000m2), it had to have symbolic meaning and represent the way we as architects believe that a building with such importance should represent.

The site is located in Jerusalem’s government district, in which many of the nation’s most important facilities and building are set, such as the congress hall (“Knesset”) the supreme court, the office of foreign affairs, the treasury etc. To it’s south lays the museum boulevard, which is where several important museum are set, such as Israel Museum, the Science museum, the hall of the book etc. To the site’s east is the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s campus. On the site’s east is an neighborhood built in the 1950’s and to it’s west is an older neighborhood. On it’s north is an international convention center, and a new neighborhood under construction. Most of the area is an open park

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Knesset Supreme court Intervention site University campus Museum boulevard ‘Crown Plaza’ hotel tower ‘ICC’ convention center Office of foreign affairs Underground parking lot The ‘Rose Garden’ park Sacker park Planned neighborhood ‘Yemin Moshe’ neighborhood ‘Nachlaot’ neighborhood ‘Beit Hakerem’ neighborhood ‘Rommema’ neighborhood Ceremonial axis Cultural axis Connection to ‘Rommema’ neighborhood Connection between the axis, as part of our proposal Proposed design Axis Existing buildings Planned buildings

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The context, or rather lack of it, was a major design problem. The site is completely isolated, surrounded by highways. The only pedestrian traffic comes from the ceremonial axis, connecting the Knesset, the supreme court and the PM’s residence. The planned connection to the museum boulevard via the site to the convention center could also be a source of traffic.

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Context

Design Concepts

A Hebrew typographic conceptual section of the project

Offices

Residence

It came to our knowledge, that the National Library has grown beyond it’s capacity Park Park Park Park Park and is looking for a new location, in the government district in Jerusalem. We thought of joining the two functions together; the Prime Minister’s official residence would also be the National Library. The National Library is both an ordinary reference library, but it’s also the largest archive in the state of Israel. It holds two copies of every book or magazine ever published in Israel, and some rare collections including Albert Einstein’s writings. The entire cultural history of Israel is stored there, represented in the books that were published along the years. It has a sum of about 8 million books and the number is constantly growing. We believe that history and culture are the roots upon which every society grows from, therefore it would be an appropriate site to set the foundations for the official residence of the prime minister

During our design process, we had five key principles: 1. Transparency: The residence should be a symbol of democracy, and as such, it should be transparent and allow as much access as possible to the public, either by enabling the public to enter or to watch. 2. A place for civic protest: Another aspect of democracy we wanted to emphasize is the right to protest and criticize. The most important public place in our project is the ‘Protest Square’, located at the center of the headquarters, facing the Prime Minister’s office and reception hall. 3. The place belongs to the public: As the entire complex is built out of the taxpayers money, it should be able to provide the most to the public. The majority of the site in our design is an open park, accessible to all. 4. Creating a modest building: As oppose to Carmi’s proposal, that was monumental and introverted, we wanted the building to reflect modesty and accessibility. The visitor should never feel frightened by the power that it represents while, on the other hand, the building should also portray stability and reassure the visitor’s trust in the government. We gave much thought to the delicate balance between the two. 5. Sustainability: The building should give a prime example of how buildings should be built. By creating double Façades with external shading, we were able to allow transparency and avoid the sun’s radiation. A large portion of the building’s envelope is underground, thus less effected by the surrounding heat. The flat roofs are used for photo-voltaic cells and the buildings are ventilated by pressure differences via the towers.

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Process

1/500 Model

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Design

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Public service facilities Prime Ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters Non-public serving facilities Prime-ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence

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Open Park Photo-voltaic cells

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Entrances

View from the reception hall to the Headquarters offices

Academic research rooms

Double layered shaded facade Trapezoid curtain wall facade Longitudinal windowed gray stone facade Shaded curtain wall Double layered shaded facade Longitudinal windowed gray stone facade

Library’s rooftop as a public open park

Double elevator shaft, both for interior and exterior use Stairs and ramps for the handicapped Gathering and protest space Escalators Reference library Entrance to the Reference library Entrance to the National Library’s archive Cultural axis Ceremonial axis

Prime minister’s private residence Authorized vehicle parking lot Official reception hall Gathering and protest space Spokesmanship and press rooms Bridge connecting the office buildings to the cambers, above the archive National library’s archive Reference library Government offices Auditorium Archive space Underground parking lot, connected to existing lot

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01 Official reception hall 02 Gathering and protest space 03 Authorized vehicle driveway 04 Authorized vehicle parking lot 05 Headquarters offices 06 Press, Media and spokesmanship 07 Underground bridge 08 Public recipient offices 09 Auditorium 10 Open reference library 11 National Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s archive 12 Ground 13 Street level

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View from the reference libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lower floor

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Night View

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Sketches

Schematic section through library Library roof and ledge

Entrance to the library

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Entrance to library

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Process Sketches

Previous designs proposals for the library

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‫מגישים‪ :‬אי‬ ‫מנחים‪ :‬ארכ‬

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Suk & Cook - Conversion of an Abandoned Theatre to a Youth Hostel Project Description Date of presentation Tutors Design Team

Re-use of an old cinema theatre and modification to a youth hostel 7/2009 8th semester Arch. Lenka Cederbaum, Arch. Eyal Malka Itay Cohen, Boaz Dimand, Ehab Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hbaies

Background, Site and Context

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In the ‘Hadar HaCarmel’ neighborhood, once the beating heart of the city of Haifa, stands the ‘Ron’ Movie theatre. The building is an interesting multi-use building that is part a luxurious movie theatre, and part a residential building. The two ground floors are used for commerce. It was built in the early 1960’s and now it is abandoned and in a poor state. The building is five stories high, and it stands between two streets with a 4 meter height difference between them. ‘Hadar HaCarmel’ is a modern district, with many international style buildings. When it was built, it housed Haifa’s elite. Today, It houses low income and immigrant communities. When we were asked in our “Design in Given Space - Interior Design” studio to convert the building to a hotel of our choice, the first question that came to mind is what kind of hotel could survive in that context. The site is located very close to the city market (suk), which was originally contained in a building, but with time the market outgrew the building’s capacity and the surrounding streets and sidewalks became an integral part of the market.

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However, the building itself acts as a barrier that disconnects the commerce’s continuity between the lower and upper street. My team members and I suggested to use that unique context and design a youth hostel, in which the main theme is cooking, and at the same time convert the empty theatre to a covered market, that connects both streets and allows comfortable shopping and selling.

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In these maps are the Ron theatre (01) and the market building (02). Two rather large buildings in a residential area. The diagrams show the market spreading outside itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original perimeter (in red). That market gives a unique and lively experience of the city, and you can always find fresh food there at low prices. Considering this is a bustling area, we thought that the hostel would be most appropriate for backpackers, who always travel light, and buy their food immediately before cooking it. With this in mind, we designed the whole hostel to enable young communal activities, and most importantly, communal cooking. In addition, we designed a restaurant and space for cooking classes, which all relate to the market.

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Design Considering that users of the hostel are young travelers, that seek opportunities to meet each other, interact and exchange experiences and tips, and get to know one another, we thought the hostel should have as many public spaces as possible, in order to allow gathering and communal cooking. Our first act of design was to connect both existing air shafts to a single large patio. The patio runs through the entire building, connecting the different functions into a single lively space. Around the patio are the corridors leading to the rooms, and several ‘cubes’ were hung in it. Some are small rooms while the others are intimate lounges. The ‘cubes’ are translucent, and emit light when in use.

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The cinema was cleared of it’s content and was opened wide in order to house an open market (Suk) that would connect the lower and upper streets and allow the street’s commerce to continue. The gallery was kept in place and now acts as a small screening room for the hostel’s guests. We decided to keep it in order to leave the user a clue of the building’s original function.

Uses: Hostel Cooking Classes Restaurant Commerce

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Detail

Stair Design for an Apple Store Project Description Date of presentation Tutors Costruction

Design of a visitor center for the Mt. Carmel national park 7/2007 4th semester Arch. Guy Arbel, Arch. Doron Minin, Arch. Abed Badaran Dr. Rosa Frances

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Design Purpose

First Floor Plan

The course in which this design was made, is the first time (3rd-4th semester) in the curriculum in which we were faced with the technical aspects of architectural design. This is my first attempt at drafting, CAD, detailing, Rendering and formal architectural representation. I chose to leave the drawing as I presented them two years ago, rather then fixing them using knowledge I’ve acquired since then, in order to portray a more accurate picture of my abilities at the time of presentation.

Section A-A The project had two stages; the first is to design a small commercial space of our choice as an in-fill between two hypothetical buildings. The site was 6 by 10 meters, facing south. The next stage was to design the store’s staircase, drawing details of up to 1:1 scale. The courses purpose was to enable students to draw construction documents of their design. I chose to design an Apple Computers store. Apple has always been a design leader, and I wanted to create a design that would fit in to the standards

Section B-B set by the company and products. After analyzing their product’s design, I’d tried to find the essential values it represented and give them an architectural interpretation. I was hoping to create a design that appears light, clean, minimalist and technologically advanced. At the time (2007) , many of their products were mostly made of white polycarbonate and chrome, playing with reflection, transparency and translucency. Their careful design was meant to conceal all joints and seams and give the products a slick look.

The store was designed as an open space, in which displays could easily be set and changed. The south façade was diagonally recessed for passive solar shading as well as to distinguish the entrance to the store. The store’s outer shell is made of concrete blocks and cast skeleton, covered with glossy white polycarbonate. Both southern and northern façades are glass and steel curtain walls. The floors (I) are construed of an INP400 beam grid, covered by curved aluminum sheets. On top of the beams are laminated glass plates. The bottom doubles as a mount for the neon lighting fixture. The stairs are fixed on the eastern and southern façades, so that they would be visible from the street. Because of the difference in the type of walls, two different fixing and construction systems were designed. The eastern ‘A’ staircase was fixed to the concrete wall on one side and was hung by metal rods, hanging form the beam grid on the other. The southern ‘B‘ staircase was fixed to the curtain wall on one side and hung on the other. The stair’s railing is made of curved glass plates, fixed to the hanging steel rods, and an aluminum extruded hand-rail is fixed on top of them.

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Design

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Assembly

01 Mounting a steel plate in the concrete cast 02 Temporary setting the prefab steel stair framework 03 Fixing the top of the metal rods to the UNP beam using bolts 04 Welding the prefab stair framework to the wall plate 05 Using epoxy mix, gluing the top and bottom PC covers 06 Concealing the connection joints using a PC cap 07 Mounting the curved glass plates on the steel rods 08 Sliding the aluminum rail on top of the glass plates, fixing it with screws.

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Assembly

01 Mounting a steel plate in the eastern wall’s concrete cast 02 Welding steel rods to the bent steel sheet 03 Sliding the rods to the ‘key-hole’ drilled out of the RHS columns 04 Welding the bent sheet to the wall plate 05 Fixing the metal rods to the UNP beam using bolts 06 Laying the top PC sheet on top of the bent metal sheet. 07 Fixing the bottom PC sheet to the bent metal sheet and the top sheet using screws 08 Covering the screw heads and the conection joints using PC caps 09 Mounting the curved glass plates on the steel rods 10 Sliding the aluminum rail on top of the glass plates, fixing it with screws.

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Partly Cloudy - Proposition for the Bat-Yam Biannale of Urban Landscape Project Description Date of presentation Design Team Status

Design of a temporary urban installation in Bat-Yam 2010 8/2009 Itay Cohen, Sara Yosef Hubbert, Liron Gal, Yonatan Fridman, Yasmeen lala Pending Judgment. Selected entries would be built at the city of Bat-Yam

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The Biannale and the Brief

Variuos exhibitions from the 08 Biannale

The Bat-Yam Biannale for Urban Architecture is an international event, in which experimental urban and landscape architecture is being temporarily built. This years topic is described in the brief: “Roadwork, construction, renovation, paving, roads closed for resurfacing... urban space is a constantly shifting entity. While the permanent “flexibility” of urban reality allows for dynamic evolution, it also lends a sense of uncertainty to everyday life. The 2010 Bat-Yam Biennale invites projects that examine the city’s “flexible” nature in relation to both infrastructures and resources, offering innovative uses for spaces that are under construction, transforming them into functional, temporal urban spaces.

process. Our goal is to encourage spaces and situations that function from within the state of a given temporality, drawing energy from this very flexibility. The Biennale will examine whether it›s possible to encourage urban situations that use temporality and change as their raw materials. The Biennale asks whether the state of temporality can become a statutory classification. Urban actions will strive to change patterns and attitudes, promoting partnership of the residents with the city. The Biennale also redefines relationships between residents, planners, stakeholders and the municipality.

Urban Action 2010 focuses on the tension between the temporary and the permanent, between the planned and the experienced. The Biennale examines the occasionally tense relationships between the city’s attempt to create order through long-term plans, and the everyday chaos that is the product of that

Paying heed to local and global social, ecological, economic and statutory issues, Urban Action 2010 encourages projects that investigate and innovate the use of urban space.” - Quoted from the competition’s brief.

For further information: http://opencall2010.biennale-batyam.org/

As a city grows and changes, the term ‘Under Construction’ becomes synonymous with urbanism. There are many events which signify the development and renewal of a city. One that caught our attention is the planting of young trees in newly established urban areas, shade being a primordial necessity. The only problem is that trees can take several years to grow and provide adequate shade for citizens, making it a necessity for anyone trying to enjoy these urban facilities in the Mediterranean climate. We propose a temporary installation that will provide the needed shade in newly developed areas, as well as become an icon of urban growth and renewal for the city dwellers. Our project, ‘Partly Cloudy’, can be placed across a newly completed site, communicating to people that there

is a new urban establishment, while both providing shade in the day and a show of lights during the night. When the trees in the area have sufficiently grown, the installation can be dismantled and relocated. In the previous site, the seed of interaction is left to blossom and the cycle begins again. The specific site we have found appropriate for this installation is the Nissenbaum fenced in Boulevard, where the future light-rail will pass. Many people have already started to enjoy this axis as an exercise route during the night but during the day the newly planted trees do not provide enough shade. ‘Partly cloudy’ will bring both playfulness and life to the street, while encouraging urban interaction and will ultimately” connect the residential neighborhood to the east of the street to the business district.”

This project becomes the missing link between the ‘finished product’, or end of construction, where the boulevard currently resides and the ‘usable product’, where the trees have fully grown and the axis reaches its full potential. Varying in height, the helium inflated balloons would cast shadows, project light, and emit sound. All technology involved has already been proven and the materials needed are identical to those of common advertising blimps. The clouds would be made of polyurethane coated nylon, which is known to be most durable for helium based inflatable objects and low energy LED rope would be used to light the clouds. The tensed steel cables which hold the clouds in place can be used to hang different types of urban seating, such as hammocks, benches, and swings.

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The Proposal

Life Cycle

Wonder whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on over there...

As construction is completed and the young trees are planted, the clouds are set up.

City dwellers quickly notice a forest of clouds filling the cityscape.

Once the trees can provide enough shade, the clouds are moved to a new location, where the cycle can begin again

People gather underneath the shade of the clouds during the day and enjoy their glow at night.

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Details

Index

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Cloud shaped blimp, made out of Polyurethane coated nylon and filled with Helium LED based tubular lights Stainless steel cable Plastic cable mount Tolerance adjusting detail Street furniture fixing mount Low current electric cable Plastic casing (Antivandalism ) Flexible nylon fabric hood End of cable and standard fixing detail Electric plug and convertor Concrete foundation with removable metal plate fixture Nylon fabric street furniture

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The Skywalkers exhibition (shown above) was custom designed by a group of artists called Friends With You for a beach festival in Miami, Florida. The large nylon balloons were filled with helium and stabilized by multiple cable connections. To the right is a commercial blimp which uses the same technology we have mentioned. The average price for a generic blimp is around $800 and based on this figure, a custom design is not as expensive as one might think.

Materials Steel cables: connect the blimps to the ground and stabilizes them in the air.

Polyurethane coated nylon: highly durable and maximizes helium efficiency.

LED lighting: Low energy, weather-proof and easy to assemble.

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Precedents

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Appendices

Competitions: • • •

1st prize winner, Beth HaTfutzot Museum of Jewish Diaspora: Design of a temporary installation, 2008 2nd prize winner, Jerusalem Seminar of Architecture: Design of a mobile sustainable market stall, 2009 shortlisted, Community V2.0, Un-built category, AI magazine’s Project of the Year awards, 2009

Computer Skills: •

Proffesional Level: • Autodesk Autocad • Google Sketchup • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe InDesign • Adobe Flash • Adobe Dreamweaver • Adobe Lightroom • Nextlimit Maxwell Render • MS office • WinXP OS

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Intermediate Level: • Autodesk Revit • Autodesk 3DSmax • Adobe Illustrator • RN&A Rhinoceros • MacOS

Exhibitions: • •

Suk and Cook project, in ‘The Future of Hadar Hacarmel’, exhibition of selected student projects at the Municipal Council Building, Haifa. Community V2.0, in ‘Ze Israel 2’, exhibition of winners and shortlisted entries of AI magazine’s Project of the Year award competition, ZeZeZe Gallery of Architecture, Tel Aviv.

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Archiblender – Author and Co-founder ‘Archiblender’ – a nonprofit architecture blog in Hebrew. This blog is popular among Israeli architects, designers and students (aprox. 1800 regular visitors) web: http://archiblender.blogspot.com Mor, Avital, “Stepping up”, Bait VeNoi architecture magazine, vol.73 (Oct 2007); pages 134-137 – Design of a staircase for an Apple store was featured there. • Maor, Sarah and Verner, Igor, “Mathematical Aspects in an Architectural Design Course: The Concept, Design Assignments and Follow-up” , Nexus Journal of Architecture and Mathematics, vol.9 (2007); 363-376 – Several projects done on Mathematics for Designers course were featured there

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Resumé - Itay Cohen

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Apprentice Yoram Popper Architects

B.Arch.Ed (expected 2010) WIZO school of design

Studio Tutor Assistant WIZO school of design

Photoshop and Sketchup Tutor Cavim institute for architecture

Photoshop Tutor Cavim institute for architecture

Photographer and Post-production Keren-Or Photography Studio

Life Support Technical Instructor 3 year compulsory military service Air Force - IDF

Pre-Military volunteer program Dor Shalom Movment - Haifa, Isreal

WIZO High Shool for the Arts - Photography

Letters of Recommendation

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Project Code

016A02/08

Mt. Carmel visitors center

022C01/09

Mobile sustainable market stall

024A07/09

Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence

025A07/09

Conversion of a cinema theatre to a hostel

010A07/07

Detailed stair design

Project Description

Head Tutor

Office

E.mail

Michael Budowski

+972-4-8377384

micky@budowski.co.il

Eyal Malka

+972-4-8361465

malka.e@gmail.com

Baruch Baruch

+972-4-8525055

baruchb@013.ne

Lenka Cederbaum

+972-4-8102002

lenka.cederbaum@gmail.com

Guy Arbel

+972-4-8346472

guy@orenarchitects.com

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Arch. Yoram Popper

Employer since Aug. 2007

+972-4-8384770

yoram.popper@gmail.com

Arch. Baruch Baruch

Head of the Department of Architecture The Neri Bloomfield WIZO school of design

+972-4-8562544

baruch@wizodzn.ac.il

Dr. Arch. Liora Bar-am Shahal

Academic Director - Department of Architecture The Neri Bloomfield WIZO school of design

+972-4-8562544

architecture@wizodzn.ac.il

Dr. Arch. Raquel Rapaport

First year studio coordinator and head tutor Department of Architecture The Neri Bloomfield WIZO school of design

+972-4-8312589

raquelr@netvision.net.il