Intensive blurring | Urban planning project, Kiryat Sharet, Holon

The "Intensive Blur" project deals with urban renewal around the future metro station on Malaka Street in Holon.

As its name implies, the project revolves around blurring the boundaries that are not visible, but are felt, and creating an urban network that unites the various neighborhoods around the future metro station.

In the past, we saw that part of the city's development included relegating industry to the sidelines and moving it away from residential areas, but in the last decade there has been a trend of change and we can see more and more a combination of industry and commerce in residential areas and vice versa.

Thinking that the development of science and industry, the increase in population and the accelerated urbanization process have a direct effect on each other - we decided to investigate the relationship between city and industry in the different dimensions of time, with an emphasis on the future of the urban space, which we expect to change significantly in the coming years.

In the course of our work, the integration of different construction typologies was examined, which contain a mix of all land uses in the area - residential, industrial, commercial and employment.

The purpose of the typologies is to accompany the street and shape the space, thus providing the user with a different experience at every corner.

A central aspect that accompanied us in the planning was the urban nature, which was used to create the basic skeleton of our work - connecting the neighborhoods with the help of green sequences gives the project another layer, which integrates nature in its various types in a distinct way in the urban space we are planning.

In addition to the green skeleton, the "Triangle" area, located in the center of our space, echoes the basis of its planning to the surrounding neighborhoods and serves as the heart of the entire project.

The "Intensive Blur" project aims to create urban renewal and a unique planning sequence, which will allow maximum utilization of the qualities of the various areas in our planning space.