2024  | Location: Gilat Junction, Negev , Israel

Competition: "Dori Award"

Organizer: Innovate

Team Members: Dafna Galeen, Noy Shaar, Sharon Shahar

Result: Top 10 Finalist

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The mission: planning for the soldiers in a war situation and for the residents in a normal situation.

 

The north of the Negev is a region rich in spectacular landscapes and a wide cultural heritage. In the vicinity of the Gilat intersection, settlements, public buildings and unique nature. All of these are covered by extensive agriculture, which is the economic and cultural basis for the Negev, and for Israel as a whole.
The site functions as an important crossroads on normal days as well as on emergency days. Therefore, he calls for the creation of a quality program that links both the scenic and the human elements. The project functions as a meeting point between the various elements of the place - human, agricultural and programmatic.
Israel's human mosaic consists of different cultures.
The agricultural mosaic and its complexity express the contemporary Israeli space, which consists of a web of people who come together for a common goal.
The programmatic mosaic offers a variety of services on normal and emergency days. Functions as an outdoor complex with a range of open and closed, private and group spaces. The spaces in the building know how to change according to the desired situation. They function as a refreshment area for the soldiers during stressful times, or as the "Northern Negev market" for the area's farmers on normal days, and as a new stopping point on the journey south for gas station users, public transportation users, and more.
In this way, the project succeeds in creating one space, which takes under it different functions that individually give space to soldiers, volunteers, farmers and local residents. Thus, the complex functions as an economic and cultural anchor in the open space of the northern Negev, and of the entire country.
The proposed project creates a dynamic place that moves between normal days and emergency days, through the agriculture that is woven into it. In doing so, he realizes the "agricultural mosaic" of which this country is made up.