A precedent in planning and implementation was created: The local authorities worked jointly with contractors for all the areas and programs of the new neighbourhoods.Officially, the municipality thought that citizens would get a better service if provided by private suppliers, even for the infrastructure. Contractors were not allowed to sell or rent housing units until all the infrastructure of the neighborhood was fully functionning (parks, schools, commerces...).IMPLEMENTATION
A precedent in planning and implementation was created: The local authorities worked jointly with contractors for all the areas and programs of the new neighbourhoods.Officially, the municipality thought that citizens would get a better service if provided by private suppliers, even for the infrastructure. Contractors were not allowed to sell or rent housing units until all the infrastructure of the neighborhood was fully functionning (parks, schools, commerces...).
BUILDING
Rishon Ma'arav is composed of two main typologies: new neighbourhoods and requalification of industrial areas.The new neighbourhoods are composed of quite uniform medium rise apartment buildings and towers, and small villas. Neighbourhoods get their identity mainly from the design of public gardens and the setting of the buildings.However, there are some invariants in the planning of all the new areas of Rishon Ma'arav: The apartment buildings include several typologies of dwelling units, in order to ensure the renewal and mixity of the neighbourhoods for the years to come. Another variant is the complete parcellar difference between the commercial areas and the housing buildings(separation that we strongly notice on the site, see pictures).
TRIP FEEDBACK
Maoz Aviv: The neighbourhood is composed of a number of parallel blocks, in the middle of a very green area, which characterizes that part of Tel Aviv. The area works like an urban kibbutz, and comprises a school, an open cinema, a small shopping mall, and a few playgrounds.
At the time of completition, the neighbourhood was standing alone in a rural area, and it was populated by homogenic population. Nowadays it is surrounded by wealthy Telavivian residents, and the population has therefore undergone gentrification. The Va'ad Bayt is very strong, but provides a high maintenance of the public areas.
In the late 60s, 15 years after completition, a tower was added to the complex (in the middle of the public garden) , and most of the existing blocks received the addition of a liftcase and of additional living space.
Hamashtela neighbourhood: This neighbourhood from the early ninetees looks like similar experiences in europe. It wants to create a density and to re-use classic forms like the street, the piazza and so on, but the result looks more like a formal exercize. Pedestrian streets are deserted, as a result of the possibility to access the buildings from underground parking-lots). The area is disconnected to the rest of the city, something that characterizes the general modern cities in Israel. The architectural quality of the building is not strong enough to make this area the fancy neighbourhood it was pretended to be.
At the time of completition, the neighbourhood was standing alone in a rural area, and it was populated by homogenic population. Nowadays it is surrounded by wealthy Telavivian residents, and the population has therefore undergone gentrification. The Va'ad Bayt is very strong, but provides a high maintenance of the public areas.
In the late 60s, 15 years after completition, a tower was added to the complex (in the middle of the public garden) , and most of the existing blocks received the addition of a liftcase and of additional living space.
Hamashtela neighbourhood: This neighbourhood from the early ninetees looks like similar experiences in europe. It wants to create a density and to re-use classic forms like the street, the piazza and so on, but the result looks more like a formal exercize. Pedestrian streets are deserted, as a result of the possibility to access the buildings from underground parking-lots). The area is disconnected to the rest of the city, something that characterizes the general modern cities in Israel. The architectural quality of the building is not strong enough to make this area the fancy neighbourhood it was pretended to be.
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