Renewing Tel Aviv

Givat Haprachim is one of the most in-demand neighborhoods in Northern Tel Aviv, bordering on Neot Afeka and Hadar Yosef. The neighborhood offers its residence a pastoral community environment, with easy access to everything the metropolis has to offer, and the excellence of Tel Aviv’s educational and municipal services.
Our project on Shlonsky St. proves once again that urban renewal in buildings built in the 1990’s is more than possible.
Both buildings on Shlonsky St. were built in the Pal-Kal method, and declared dangerous by the local committee. Rotem Shani led a process of arbitration between the apartment owners and the local committee, after the project was stuck for many years, and eventually we received the green light for evacuation and construction with the agreement of the homeowners and the municipality.
How did we do this?
Through discourse with the apartment owners, in an attempt to understand the unique needs of each family, a willingness to maximize planning so that they would receive solutions to all their needs, and by responding creatively to the planning challenges resulting from the project’s location in relation to the other buildings in the surroundings.