yael c. agmon

Urban Symphony: Re-connecting the City of Sderot

#Urban Design
Technion, Haifa

Collaboration with Eilam Tycher and Hila Vortman-Wadell

First Prize | Shergeheim Award for Urban Design, 2010

Like the music, the urban life is composed from endless rhythms, styles, personal and collective experiences. The urban symphony offers a variety of possibilities while accompanying us as we wander around in the public space, therefore it must be sequential and continuous even in moments of change.

Sderot is a walkable town by scale, a very intimate and warm place that has a great potential for vital urbanity. Nevertheless, the way the town is built today disturbs the flow of life, the flow of the symphony. The goal of this project was to establish a sequential, continuous, flowing space – physically and programmatically – to fulfill the town’s potential.

We chose to demonstrate our urban philosophy on the city center and the two neighborhoods that border it – HaVered and Eshcol. Through the redesign of the transportation system and its hierarchy, we succeeded to create interesting intersections that will enhance exiting critical places. We examined every space separately, and by simple interventions – adding, subtracting and editing existing elements, we achieved a collection of varied spaces connected to each other.