Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design

Carmella Jacoby Volk, Anat Messing Interior Design Department, Colman College, Israel 71

Figure 3. "Roof-S-Cape", Yaron Knor
Tel Aviv is a dense city with less and less available public spaces [f ig. 3.1]. Is there an alterna-
tive public space? Where will our children play? Where will the homeless sleep and the musicians
play their music? Where will we demonstrate? This project of fers a dif ferent program. Tel Aviv
is a flat roof top city. The upper plane of the city from the 3rd to the 7th floor is a free air rights
space [f ig. 3.2]. The dynamic systems of forces and flows of the cultural urban attractors are
generated into a "deformatator" (the diagram), which is juxtapositioned with street flows of
people and cars[f ig.3.3]. These flows generate divergent flocking groups; tourists, families,
businesswomen[fig. 3.].Each group emerges by a different set of human behavioral rules, and
together scripted an haptic diagram of potential urban public space over the rooftops of Tel Aviv[fig
3.5].

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