Kiryat Gat 2025 Refigured Urbanism for the New Century
Kiryat Gat 2025 Departure Point
Kiryat Gat 2025 // Departure Points
1. Analyzing changes and trends for 1960-1990 and 1990-present
Kiryat Gat 2025 // Departure Points
2. Using age groups as a visioning tool
0-10
10-18
18-30
30-45
45-65
65 >
Kiryat Gat 2025 // Departure Points
3. Using the four themes on different scales
Capitalizing on mobility experiences by connecting people and linking destinations.
Nature is integrated into the urban fabric, connecting the different areas, uses and nodes. The green ring surrounding the city is as an integral part of city life.
The theme of technology is integrated in all aspects of life and structure the physical urban layout along with social life.
Alternative type of urban life bridging the advantages of rural quality of life and big cities’ variety of choices, focusing on connectivity and a sense of belonging.
Kiryat Gat 2025 Strategic Plan
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Strategic Plan: Components
Urban cells - new urban scale Circulation - stitching the cityNature - integration in/outTechnology - overall theme
Urban CellsThe city is a net composed of urban cells, a new scale that act as a tool for spatial re-organizition. By presenting a new scale, smaller then a neighborhood, the urban cell allows flexibility and is a feasible scale for urban regeneration.
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Strategic Plan: Components
CirculationThe inner circulation is divided into two: Cross-city public transportation that stitches the industrial zone, the existing city and the new northern neighborhood. Pedestrian and bicycling paths are organized as net, juxtaposing the transportation circulation.
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Strategic Plan: Components
TechnologyThe theme of technology is integrated in all aspects of life, such as the Net School, Smart Public Spaces, Science and Tech Park and residency programs.
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Strategic Plan: Components
Nature The green ring surrounding the city is viewed as an integral part of city life and conneted to the pedestrian grid. The gardens and parks inside the city offer specific internet contents and each present a unique technological theme.
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Strategic Plan: Components
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Strategic Plan: Components
Stitching the existing residential area, the industrial area and the northern development, by:
1. The Band Embraces the city and composed of diverse experiences and landscapes. Furthermore, it penetrates the city and industrial area, stitching the two together.
2. Main axisSderot Lachish as a connector that runs through the northern development, city entrance, municipal core, the train station and industrial area.
Kiryat Gat 2025 Urban Cells
Land uses
Future developmentVacant lots
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Kiryat Gat 2012 /// Fragmented Urban Fabric
Neighborhoods’ weaknesses: 1. Rigid borders2. Poor Connectivity3. Large scale4. Unutilized spaces
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells
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800 Meter
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Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells
Using urban cells can: 1. Dissolve borders2. Improve Connectivity3. Utilize spaces4. Enhance human comfort5. Promote walkability and
greater use of public spaces.
6. Feasible scale for urban regeneration
The urban cell’s characteristics are:
•Scale and connectivity
• Themes and age groupsThe themes and age groups influence the unit’s spatial organization, the character and distribution of its public spaces, building typologies and patterns, density and intensity.
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Characteristics
Each urban cell is characterized by the four themes and age groups in different intensities, analyzed by a multi-layered gradient, and determined by the cell’s position in the city, its proximity to urban and natural elements, and its social-demographic structure -- both according to its current condition and the strategic plan.
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Methodology
compact nature
0 100
residential industrial
mobility >>
technology >>
age groups
compact nature
residential industrial
mobility = public transportation, main stop
mobility >> paths into natural landscape
technology >> residency, incubators
mobility = connections between factories
technology = industrial clusterstechnology = net school, tech garden
compact nature
residential industrial
compact nature
residential industrial
0 100age groups
0 100age groups0 100age groups
compact nature
0 100
residential industrial
mobility >>
technology >>
age groups
compact nature
residential industrial
mobility = public transportation, main stop
mobility >> paths into natural landscape
technology >> residency, incubators
mobility = connections between factories
technology = industrial clusterstechnology = net school, tech garden
compact nature
residential industrial
compact nature
residential industrial
0 100age groups
0 100age groups0 100age groups
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Methodology
compact nature
0 100
residential industrial
mobility >>
technology >>
age groups
compact nature
residential industrial
mobility = public transportation, main stop
mobility >> paths into natural landscape
technology >> residency, incubators
mobility = connections between factories
technology = industrial clusterstechnology = net school, tech garden
compact nature
residential industrial
compact nature
residential industrial
0 100age groups
0 100age groups0 100age groups
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Methodology
compact nature
0 100
residential industrial
mobility >>
technology >>
age groups
compact nature
residential industrial
mobility = public transportation, main stop
mobility >> paths into natural landscape
technology >> residency, incubators
mobility = connections between factories
technology = industrial clusterstechnology = net school, tech garden
compact nature
residential industrial
compact nature
residential industrial
0 100age groups
0 100age groups0 100age groups
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Methodology
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Guiding Principles
1. Age groups
Housing Distribution
Public spaces Scale
Connectivity Character
Amenities
Local climate
HardscapeW
ater catchment
Materials
Shading
Maintenance
Program
4. Connectivity3. Human Comfort
2. Governance and management
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Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example
Starting point >> current condition + strategic plan
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example
City center
Park and stream
City’s main entrance
Rapid public transportation
Interventions in the cellular scale
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example
Distribution of age groups
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example
Interventions in the cellular scale Connectivity and amenities
Interventions in the cellular scale // superpositionGovernance and management models
Ideogram
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example, Zoom In
Existing housing
Additions
Shared / public amenities0-10 10-18 18-30 30-45 45-65 65 >
Current condition Interventions
Existing housing
Additions
Shared / public amenities0-10 10-18 18-30 30-45 45-65 65 >
Existing housing
Additions
Shared / public amenities0-10 10-18 18-30 30-45 45-65 65 >
Private management of open spaces
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example, Zoom In
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example
Kiryat Gat 2025 /// Urban Cells: Example
Kiryat Gat 2025 Refigured Urbanism for the New Century