- Parks, Promenades and Plazas
- Campuses, Museums and Public Buildings
- Archaeological Parks
- Architecture
- Infrastructure Projects
- Engineering Projects
- Marks in the Landscape
- Landscape Planning
- Competitions
- 01. Park Herzeliya
- 02. South Beach Promenade, Eilat
- 03. Sherover Promenade, Jerusalem
- 04. Fish Park, Modiin
- 05. Susan Delal Dance and Theater Center
- 06. Sapir Park, Negev
General Info:
- Location:
- Herzeliya
- Client:
- Municipality of Herzeliya
- Date:
- 2008
- Team:
- Barbara Aronson, Shlomo Aronson, Ofri Gerber, Tal Bilinsky, Assaf Zeevi, Ifat Gal, Michal Kimchi
Description:
This new municipal Park is located on an historical flood plain. Large seasonal winter ponds protected the land from housing development but were widely snubbed as mosquito breeding grounds. We therefore made a strategic decision to design the first 40 acres as an active and intensively developed park section that addresses the first wave of demands of its projected users, hoping that the public would discover in time the value and beauty of the winter ponds with their rich wildlife and will be moved to preserve it. The central idea for the formal language of the first stage recreation park was “Movement”, as characterized in the natural processes and the flow of people on site. This movement is expressed both in the two dimensional layout of the pathways, and in three dimensions expanded into the architecture of the buildings, shade structures, and the custom-built play area. The entire irrigation system of the park is based on waste-water use.
Two years after the opening of the first stage we are starting now construction on the second development stage, extending the park to the north past the winter ponds. The strategic phasing of the park’s program fulfilled our expectations and those of the public, and it helped to change the agenda for the second phase: protecting the existing wetlands, letting people experience and learn about this particular piece of urban nature.