Moshav Shorashim: Preliminary Design Drawings – Site plan

Master Plan for a new settlement for Jewish immigrants with the social structure of a community, where land and work profits are owned collectively, but still each family has its own house. Unlike other master plans, it describes the life, the ...

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...

Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...

The final site plan of the settlement, based on the survey of the layout of houses as completed on site together with the families, and in turn adjusted locally for ensuring technical requirements.

Two site plans, showing the result of the neighborhood, when it was actually laid out on the ground, and as it was subsequently built. They depict the reality of form which comes from the process, building by building, and ...