yael c. agmon
Architecture/Experience Design/Strategy
Re-Reading the Israeli Coastline through Infrastructural opportunities
#Architecture #Urbanism #Regional Planning #Infrastructure
Thesis Part I, Technion, Haifa
Collaboration with Igal Tartakovsky
Finalist | Reiskin Award for Undergraduate Thesis
Infrastructural coastal sites, consisting of approximately a quarter of the Israeli 200 km coast, posses a significant challenge for planners. These sites usually block any public use or access to the sea, while functioning (or anti-functioning ) as black holes in the landscape.
Following the common, super-functional planning approach in Israel these sites are usually designed as generic objects disconnected from any local characteristics.. In contrast, the project questions the specific interrelationships between coastal infrastructures' the local environment, and the sea, and seeks to emphasize the importance of planning constantly in various scales
As a case study, we chose a so-called a "coastal town", Atlit, that in fact has no access to the sea at all. The way to the sea is blocked by large infrastructures owned by powerful economic actors empowered by political interests.
