In the post-modern era, the city serves as a mean of supplying people’s needs, and functions mainly as a basis, not as a place per se. In my opinion, the three clear expressions of this urban-threatening phenomenon are:
Industrial areas that are cut off from city centers.
Generic suburbs, enclosed and cut off from any context.
Structures such as malls that artificially resemble the street, drawing in the street’s activities, and representing today’s ubiquitous consuming-culture.
The street is losing its place as a cultural space, and incidental meetings exposes the subject to different experiences and cultures.
Therefore in order to revive the urban texture and to restore the sense of wandering, I chose to isolate the qualities of a shopping-mall, on the surface of the street and to translate them into the architectural field, implementing them in space by means of new urban tapestry of spaces.
I chose to focus on the industrial park in the west of Rishon-Le'Tsion, ‘Town of the Malls’.
I propose a definition of the area as a significant urban center that serves the inhabitants of the west of the city, south Bat Yam and Holon, by creating an urban continuum, strengthening the existing axis and links to living environments.
By utilizing the deteriorating malls and opening them to the street, the space will become meaningful, richer with additional content, and will be characterized by multiple usages, for example, culture, work, residence, academy, leisure and employment.
Industrial areas as the center of a multi-layered city
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