Hatikva slums
Project: undergraduated, third year ,2017
Course: studio design.
Course: studio design.
"Hatikva" in Tel Aviv is known as the neighbourhood of slums, a space in which complex urban phenomena occur as a result of social, economic and political factors that influence the fabric of the neighbourhood. Walking around the streets and between the buildings, a mixture of public and private activities create a special experience of the city: a collective house scattered in the urban fabric. The communities living in the neighbourhood spend their day in shared spaces for sitting, eating and watching TV in the streets, while their apartments become a space mainly for sleeping. Following several mappings and analyses, I developed a new model that deconstructs the concept of the house and design it in the form of social act using the "Dictionary of territory scale ;between demarcation and signature (diagram n.3)" as a working method to reveal situations of a house within no clear boundaries. The house develops from inside out. The street, the courtyard and the kitchen are not private or public anymore. They act together as a new typology of home, as a response to the typology of the apartment- the independent housing unit.
Hatikva Quarter is a working class neighbourhood in southeastern Tel Aviv, Israel.
The quarter was founded in 1935, named for "Mount Hope" ("Har HaTikva" in Hebrew), a farm built in 1855 by Protestant Prussian and American immigrants. Almira Steinbeck, who left the farm with her family, was the grandmother of John Steinbeck. It became part of the Tel Aviv municipal area after the 1948 .
