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Lazarus Community Center at Jessie Cohen neighborhood, Holon

ECOWEEK 2012 in the Middle East

WORKSHOP Leaders:

Heidi Arad (Architect, Interior Design, College of Management, Israel) Dr. Elias Messinas (Architect, ECOAMA, Israel/Greece)

WORKSHOP Team:

Ofir Zur, Guy Weiner, Adi Ibn Ezra, Hagar Ovadiah, Dana Henan, Yael Dor, Galit Pinhasi, Mor Regev, Reut Ino, and Yaara Katz

‘Green’ Interventions at Community Center at Jessie Cohen, Holon

This is the first ECOWEEK GREENHOUSE project in Israel. The workshop was assigned a real project, carried out in collaboration and under the guidance of the Community Center director Yossi Zeide. The assignment included a number of small to mid-size interventions in the existing building, from a starting point of sustainability: increase of natural daylight, reduction of the need for mechanical heating and cooling, increase in the well-being of the users of the building spaces, and introducing materials which are softer, more natural and more friendly to the young users of the building. This is a real project, with a real budget, and the intention is to implement the interventions suggested for the building.

The team was divided up into smaller work teams that focused on the following assignments:

(a) Front elevation and entry to the building, including the public stairs leading to the main entrance and the front elevation signage. The team also included a small protected garden to the side, made more accessible and usable with the use of a wooden deck that combined vegetation for shading and places to sit.

(b) The entrance lobby, including the Community Center offices and kindergarten space. The offices were enlarged to accommodate the Community Center staff, and new materials and finishes were suggested.

(c) Another team investigated the transformation of the lobby skylight to increase natural light, combining vegetation and a creative way of integrating and presenting the works of children and youth.

(d) The playroom on the first floor was also assigned to the team, aiming to enliven this multi-purpose space, used by youth after school, offering different choices of games.

The ECOWEEK week gave the opportunity to the team to develop initial ideas and brainstorm on the possibilities of these assignments, bringing forth a number of creative and innovative ‘green’ design ideas. The second phase of the project is to develop these ideas further, to the point of construction documents, with the goal to implement the project by the end of the summer 2012.


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