Studio G 2020
Directors: Arch. Nathaniel Alfasi
The Parametric Urban Landscape Lab
The project focuses on community vitality, preserving diversity, and multiculturalism that constitute the community. According to SDG-11, a healthy and sustainable lifestyle is achieved when within a 500-meter walking radius, a person can access all the necessary services, including public transportation, green public spaces, and commerce.
The workflow involved conducting a comparative mapping between two neighborhoods in Tel Aviv: the Old North and Lev Tel Aviv. This mapping was based on the consumption places of the neighborhood residents that create interactions among people to assess to what extent each neighborhood, as a unit, meets the needs of its residents and fosters a diverse and multicultural community, in order to further promote this state on a broader scale. The neighborhood is essentially a geographical unit that connects place and community. Neighborhoods provide a framework, socialization, family and friendship ties, and provide a site for solidarity and protection. The concept in the neighborhood refers to the interaction between non-family members who share spatial proximity.
The workflow was as follows: I took the data from the municipality and the distribution of the population in those neighborhoods according to their numerical distribution, where each color represents a culture. I scattered the population of each culture in space with attraction points for programs in the neighborhood based on the parameters you provided regarding the population characteristics. Each culture with its assigned color was connected in potential contexts for encounters with people from the same culture. In fact, the mapping deals with the prediction, micro-scale, of a network of connections between cultures to create a diverse and multicultural community with the aim of encouraging, empowering, and preserving diversity and the diverse community's way of life.
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Stage B involves identifying those nodes where encounters occur but do not have a program/attraction point, i.e., finding new points in space similar to pressure points. These points have a high traffic volume of diverse cultures. Each of these points is an optional location for a new program in the neighborhood. The points are added to the existing pressure points without replacing them. The goal is to examine whether by clicking and adding a program at a specific point, it is possible to create a new array in the city, encourage a multicultural and community meeting place, and realize the potential of that point.
Street Section
Ground Floor
