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Michal Ziso | Architect

THE MILL 2.5 KM RE-START

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Fifth year ﬁnal project | Re-use, from industrial factory to a creative hub | Tel Aviv, Israel Professors: Arch. Pitsou Kedem, Arch. Uri Mazor | Technion | Michal Ziso

"Eyes mark the shape of the city. Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks like a single gigantic creatureor more, like a single collective entity created by many intertwining organisms. Countless arteries stretch to the ends of its elusive body, circulating a continuous supply of fresh blood cells, sending out new data and collecting the old, sending out new consumables and collecting the old, sending out new contradictions and collecting the old. To the rhythm of its pulsing, all parts of the body flicker and flare up and squirm. Midnight is approaching, and while the peak of activity has indeed passed, the basal metabolism that maintains life continues undiminished, producing the basso continuo of the city's moan, a monotonous sound that neither rises nor falls but is pregnant with foreboding." Haruki Murakami, After Dark.

The city of Tel Aviv is a very intensive, fast paced metropolis and at the same time has qualities of a slow motion mediteranian beach city. Tel Aviv, like every other big city, is always changing and it's streets, it's buildings, it's volumes have to change accordingly. The project deals with the re-use of a working ďŹ&#x201A;our mill factory in downtown Tel Aviv, turning it into a creative working and showing machine, which brings life to the area, connects the edges of the city to it's core and suggests a new alternative center while answering some current problems and issues in the speciďŹ c urban fabric. The project focuses on maximizing or minimizing the pace of the city to the extreme while placing them side by side like islands.

Florentin Washington Blvd.

Salame Rd. Abulaﬁa

Rabenu Hananel

Alfasi Kibbutz Galuyot Rd.

Site

The site is located in downtown Tel Aviv. The working ﬂour mill on Alfasi st. is a part of the industrial ring of the city which was ﬁrst planned at the outskirts but became an “island” as the times changed.

Site Analysis

“Cities are informed and imagined by many people at a time. Cities are an open stage for complementary and conﬂicting encounters. Cities are the backdrops for dreams and desires.” |Petra Kempf You Are Downtown TLV is an attempt to crack the genetical code and to discover the framework of downtown Tel Aviv. A mapping tool based on Arch. Petra Kempf’s diagrams. This mapping tool consists of layers of information. When compiled in different ways, various conclusions can come to mind regarding the nature of the area and what can be done.

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The layers are divided into four groups: cosmological grounds; perceptive boundaries deﬁnders; nexus; dreams desires and expectations.

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The mapped layers are: street type|living, inside voids, blvd. uses, white noise, block, catalyst, work-shop/studio, small/medium/large; loops and connectors| blvd. ring activity, factory living ring, work ring activity; boundaries; place of activity; currents| departures and arrivals, ďŹ&#x201A;ows; time zones| day, night; mill knot; function ties| studio/art/design, leisure, work-shop, the mill; islands| living island, mill island, blvd. island

living inside voids blvd. uses white noise block catalyst work-shop/studio small/medium/large

cosmological grounds

labaling Alfasi. st. as ‘catalyst’ of activity and transforming it into a ‘pedestrian only’ street

closing the activity ring with the western streets

Conclusions

keeping Salame st. as “pace transitioning axe” with Washington blvd. piercing/connecting north to south

exposure of “artistic” functions (in the area) to the street

Creative Hub

The northern neigborhood of Florentin is suffering from gentriﬁcation. There is a large number of young artists who came to live in this neigborhood and now will have to ﬁnd a new place to live. In the mill area there is percolation of artist, designers, architects etc. Together they make up the ‘creative class’ whose most basic need is a stimulating urban environment where and from which they could operate -

creative hub. The re-use of the ﬂour factory and its transformation to a creative hub will consist of working and showing galleries. The top ﬂoor 33 meters above ground will be the ‘mill lounge’ - connection and disconnection to the city with a one of a kind view. The mill will be part of a new area with affortable housing, a boutique hotel, cafe’s and restaurants, a book store and a large art store.

using the proximity of the many workshops to the mill and creating a synergy

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‫ליצור‬ create mill block +alfasi

‫להציג‬ show the mill

balancing day-night activity to create a 24/7 active area

1 Bedroom 500sqm 2 Bedroom1150sqm 3 Bedroom 500 sqm

Boutique Hotel 2400sqm Be&Make Studio 360sqm Closed Square 290sqm

93.6 sqm 3 Bedroom 56 sqm 1 Bedroom 56 sqm 1 Bedroom 72 sqm 2Bedroom 86 sqm 3 Bedroom 80 sqm 2 Bedroom 66 sqm Be&Make 57 sqm 1 Bedroom 85 sqm 3 Bedroom

The Nill 3500sqm Glass Garden 600sqm

Main Piazza Cafe’ Restaurant

Eat.Drink. 400sqm Bakery Cafe’ 130sqm Art Store 200sqm Book Shop 150sqm Mill Lounge 230sqm ‘Bring Your Own Chair’ Screening Area

Existing Section Existing Plan

The flour factory (built in 1950) consists of two main functional parts: the grain silos volume based on a 2.5m*2.5m grid of 40/40cm concrete columns which rise up to 25m-38m, creating elongated shafts in which are the silos; the flour sifting machine rooms, divded into 6 floors (the process is from top to bottom).

The re-use of the mill includes preserving the concrete facade and the construction of the building, all of the 148 concrete columns, creating a large and very intense space, streching to 847sqm, rising to 25m-38m. The preservation of the facade and the columns maintains the building’s vertical qualities.

Lobby Rings

Inspired by REX’s* interpretation of the relationship between the museum’s lobby to its galleries (two left images), the sectional lobby, ring (completed with elevators) creates autonomic galleries (right image).

the classic museum with a gallery loop from and to the lobby *REX - Munch Museum

REX’s new arrangement of a lobby ring with a gallery core

The Mill’s sectional lobby ring completed with elevators

Circulation | section A-A

The main circulation in the mill is by seven standalone elevators, maintains the vertical qualities and creates a machine-like operating building. The secondery circulation is by stairs, once between each vertical core, which is completed by a full outer staircase. The cores consists of an elevator and 5-8 independent platforms.

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Lower Lobby - concrete and steel vs. black marble

Upper Lobby - concrete and steel vs. wood

Platforms

basement plan (-3..20)

The horizontal surfaces are added in the form of light platforms supported by the existing columns which are reinforced accordingly. These platforms are grouped into four free-standing cores. At the ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor all of the columns are found, as we go higher in the building there are less columns and larger platforms so the space balance is kept. The platforms vary from gallery platforms to transitioning platforms.

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upper lobby | sixth floor plan (+25.00)

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Galleries

The galleries have to hold any kind of artistic expression, they have to vary in size, lighting and acuostical conditions. The Mill galleries are divided into three typologies: open space divided by portable patitions; closed spaces which have autonomic control of its lighting and acoustics; and aquarium galleries consisting of a glass box which can hold an art display or be a working space which then becomes the (living) art.

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Main entrance | section B-B

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Secondary circulation | the Skin

The stair circulation inside the Mill is completed by the ‘ﬁre-escape’ like staircase on the outer eastern facade of the building. This staircase is sheltered by a perforated metal skin, which creates a usable outer space in the form of elongated balconies which stretches along side the whole facade. This staircase connects the cores and also brings in screened light into the interior of the Mill while creating an interesting sisplay of light and shadow. The skin, seperated from the concrete wall by 2.5m (module), also creates a cooling shaft which helps the ventilation of the space.

Seconday entrance

The main entrance to the mill, from the glass garden into the lower lobby, reveals the whole building at once. Since the platforms grow bigger as we go up the floors, the visitor can get a full grasp of the space from the first step. The seconday entrance is by a small staircase, carved into the southern conrete wall, almost unvisible from the street since it is lower than eye level. The visitor then experiances several volume transformations - from the open street, down to the the mill’s basement, from there up to ‘roof-25’ by elevator, from which he gets a great vista of the city, and then down to the platforms, each one revealed as he goes down | the flour experience.

Minimalism vs. Industrialism

The vision of ‘the pace and the islands’ recieve it’s translation in different scales: from the urban scale of ﬁnding an island of different kind of activity in the existing fabric of the area, to the smaller scale of the site and the building, and down to the selection of materials - rough materials next to soft materials such as wood and light | minimalism vs. indsustrialism.

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apoxy ﬂoor wood beams

The architecture of the building is it’s structure and it’s structure is the achitecture, therefor the structure of the platforms remained bare and exposed. All the ﬂoors and platforms of the Mill are seperated by a narrow gap from the concrete walls which deﬁnes the diffrences betweein the materials, the old and the new, and the verticallity.

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‘Bring your own chair’ Screening Area | Epilogue

|The flour factory is not here anymore. It was moved out of the city. The building in which the machinces once worked and the grains were storaged is still here, and inside - a whole new life. The new Mill is a huge building which holds galleries, show-rooms and work-rooms. Each space is different. The young artists that live right here, can use the aquarium spaces for creating their art, while they become the living art themsleves. When they are finished they can use the many work-shops nearby in order to execute their creations or just leave their work for show in the aquarium or any of the other 23 spaces for show. The Mill is also the space used to showcase the products of the many design offices and studios in the area. The versatility of the spaces enables different kinds of events to take place, from small events in the closed platforms to a very large gala in the top or bottom lobby, or even in the glass garden foyer. The Mill is full of acticity 24/7, people are always coming in and out. Since the street is for pedestrians only, the buildings near the Mill create different kinds of squares, like the one infront of the big south facade which became place for screening movies and video-art. From all the houses near-by people always bring out chairs and enjoy what’s going-on on the wall. You can always find a few chairs in the morning where you can sit and have your usual morning coffee.|

Public Space Design, 4th year Arch. Andreas Kipar Arch. Pierra Chiuppani Politecnico di Milano I t a l y

2.5 km THE MILL

Michal Ziso Technion - Israeli Institute of T e c h n o l o g y Haifa Israel Adi Stern Bezalel- The Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem Israel

RE-START

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Urban Space Design in San Donato Milano Italy The Project: focuses on a 2.5 km axe, which crosses diagonally from the transportation station of San Donato to the fields. The Concept: defining the axe as landscape vs. urban, adding according to a mathematical analysis vertical landscape and horizontal architecture. The Method: dividing the axe into 13 points (one on each junction and one exactly in between), carefully analyzing each by measurable parameters. Then, using the results in order to create the specific intervention in each point. The Module: a construction box sized 4m*4m*4m, which its quantity, spread, surface number, etc., is determined by the analysis. We created very strong end points to the axe in points 0 and 12 - fields in boxes and boxes in a field.

San Donato

A neighborhood in the south-east of the city of Milano, Italy. The main entrance to the area from north-west where the train station is found. The edge of the neighborhood is at the south-east where the ďŹ elds begin. The neighborhood stretches this direction, from urban to rural.

The Twist

The concept to the project suggested is to make the intervention using contrasts to the existing axe - adding vertical landscape and horizonal built architecture. In order to do so, an anlaysis of the axe was made, by dividing it into 13 points and to sampe each one in a 100m radius. The elements analyzed: percentage of open vs. closed view; distance from blocks/barriers; percentage of vegitation and biult mass; distance from the starting point; width of the street; road/crossroad.

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0-Station 1-V.Caviaga

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3-P.Santa Barbara 4-V.le Gasperi 5-Rondo di Truizzo

6-V.le Gasperi 7-V.le Gasperi 8-V.le Gasperi 9-V.le Gasperi 10-V.le Gasperi 11-Rondo della Ricerca 12 - Fields

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VEGITATION - inversed ratio to tree density

SURFACE QUANTITY - inversed ratio to building density SECTION SKYLINE - width in inversed ratio to street width, hight in inversed ratio to edges SCATTERED VS UNIFIED - road vs crossroad

MODULE REPETITION - direct ratio to open view

VEGITATION - inversed ratio to tree density

SURFACE QUANTITY - inversed ratio to building density SECTION SKYLINE - width in inversed ratio to street width, hight in inversed ratio to edges SCATTERED VS UNIFIED - road vs crossroad

MODULE REPETITION - direct ratio to open view

Main axe section

Point 1, Width - 8m Hight - 8m

Point 0, Width - 12m Hight - 24m

Vegitation, point 0 - 100% Surface Quantity, point 0 - 94%

Surface Quantity, point 0 - 78%

Module Repetition, point 0 - 86%

Module Repetition, point 0 - 56% point 0 - scatterd point 0 - uniﬁed

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Vegitation, point 1 - 50%

The Diagonal

Since the analysis was kept only to single valued parameters, they could be then translated into visualized pixles and test the outcome on the map. Another tool used was to put all the parameters in a diagram based on the section of the axe marked by the 13 points. In order to fulﬁll the concept and to achieve a substantial inﬂuence, we translated the data into architectural and landscape elements in an opposite ratio - we looked at the values that were missing to complete the 100% and added them while keeping the concept of vertical landscape, horizonal built architecture.

Fields in boxes | Boxes in fields

The points shown are the extreme points - point 0 - the most urban, and point 12 - most rural in the fields. A module of 4m*4m*4m was built, which consisted of only constructural frames. The data was translated into the amount of horizonal and vertical plains (floors and walls) to be added in adition to vegitation and materials. The outcome - point 0 - the green structure | the vertical garden, and point 12 - the urban concrete tower in the fields. Point 0 - The Green Structure, Vertical Garden, A landscape box

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Point 12 - The Urban Stracture

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THE MILL 2.5 KM

RE-START Urban Design Studio, 3rd year Landscape Arch. Asif Berman Arch. Zvi Koren

Michal Ziso Moshe Daly Michal Arazi Technion - Israeli Institute of T e c h n o l o g y

ReStart

The man contaminated the land. Nature took over. Now, the man is coming back. As a visitor. The project is dealing with contaminated land due to an Asbestos factory in the northern part of the city of Nahariya. The Asbestos ďŹ bers are spread in the air with each contact, causing danger to human lives. The project suggests treating the contaminated land with natural bacteria, which will eventually purify the land, in a cross of 10-20 years. meanwhile, the land is not to be in contact with, therefore we will build high above it, on piers and stilts, and with each stage of purifying we will build lower untill we will touch the ground again.

Nahariya | The intoxication

Nahariya is a city by the shoreline of northern Israel. The industrial zone is located in the north of the city. Between 1952-97 a factory called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eitanitâ&#x20AC;? manufactured building materials made of a dangerous substance called - asbestos. Asbestos is a naturally accuring silicate mineral and is very toxic. The inhalation of asbestos ďŹ bers can cause seriouse illnesses including lung cancer and asbestosis cancer. Nowadays, great amounts of exposed asbestos resedue are found in the area of the factory and the entire industrial zone. With each contact with vehicles, weather changes, diggings and even human steps, the asbestos is spread and thus risking human lives.

Nahariya | The treatment

The ways to treat asbestos-contaminated land are either clearing the area and “moving” the problem away, covering it with thick layers of concrete or fencing the area and restricting any entrance. After several researches, we found that there is a kind of blue bacteria called ‘Cyanobacteria’, which is able to help treat the contaminated land. This bacteria can first stabilize the land and prevent the asbestos fibers from getting released to the air. In the longer term, of 10-20 years, the bacteria can actually dissolve the asbestos completly and clear the area. The Re-Start projects deals with the first step of haveing a very large area that you can breath around but not step on.

Two Systems After mapping out the levels of infection in each area of the industrial zone we decided to treat each level of infection in a different way. The areas with the highest level of infection will be covered, and the rest will be treated with stabilizing vegitation and bacteria. The project deals with two systems: the lower system - a viewed only park, and an upper autonomic system of piers which enables a new and different experience of open space.

ReStart Park

The new park will be a recharging pump to the city of Nahariya. As such, new organization is evolving around it - A new mixed use urban quarter which will include light industry, housing, business and commerce area, culture and entertainment. This quarter will nourish and be nurished by the new park.

The New Quarter

The new mixed-use urban quarter will also be based on two systems, upper and lower, literally realizing the terms “Up-town” and “Down-town”. The lower system will be down-town and will consist of the light industry, business and commerce functions. The upper system or the up-town will consists of housing and leisure. The new street level will be the ground level of the upper system - level 3, which will stretch out to form the piers over the ReStart Park.

ReStart Park Mixed-use Quarter The Piers

Epilogue

The lower system will remain autonomic and untouched untill the land would be puriďŹ ed by organic means in a long process. Once it is safe, the people will be able to re-contact the ground. Until then, the park will serve as a living museum for people to watch, enjoy and learn from.