Kaplan North Masterplan Complex

In March 2016, Kimmel Eshkolot Architects won a competition to design Kaplan North Masterplan, an area of 32,000 sq. m in the heart of Tel Aviv, Israel.

Situated between one of the city's busiest intersections and its cultural centre, the design aims to create a 'new gateway to Tel Aviv', an innovative series of structures that will restore a once secretive and secluded area that was home to the Kiriya (IDF's - Israel Defense Forces - headquarters).

The masterplan is has two key elements.

The west side is the main 'urban room' and is connected to the southern gardens. The gardens serve as an open urban space for leisure activities, small concerts and gatherings. It also aims to play host to temporary art exhibitions in pavilions of the kind seen at London's Serpentine Gallery.

The east side is an area of more dense and complex structures, relating to the surrounding existing towers. The strategy is to create a 'multi-layered vertical city' of urban spaces, gradually going from public at the bottom level to private at the top:

• Street/metropolis level.
• Public housing (surrounding the plinth).
• Level 5 – neighbourhood spaces and publicly-accessible amenities.
• Level 30 – Spaces for the users of the upper levels (residential, offices, hotel).

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