Lev Bat Yam renewal plan
Executed in collaboration with Architect Hagit Antman-Tamari
This plan is an urban renewal plan for Bait Vegan Neighborhood, located in downtown Bat Yam, at the northern section of the Lev Hair quarter.
The neighborhood covers an area of 290 dunams and hosts about 9,500 people in approximately 4,000 residential units and about 275 residential buildings, most of which built in the 1950s
and 1960s.
The plan aims to encourage urban renewal processes at Bait Vegan neighborhood in Lev Hair quarter, which include, inter alia:
Renewing the housing offering in the area and creating applicable tools for the renewal of the existing buildings.
Reinforcing buildings against earthquakes by means of building additions to existing buildings, or their demolition and the construction of new buildings in their place.
Adapting and improving the public space for activities in this area and for the expected volume of construction.
Reinforcing the walkways layout and positioning Rabin Garden a major anchor at the heart of the neighborhood.
5.Creating a complex with a unique identity at the heart of the neighborhood by defining a Conservation Area in the historical part of the Bait Vegan neighborhood.
6.Expanding the various public services in the neighborhood.
7.Providing a solution for the public parking needs within the neighborhood area in favor of both its present and new inhabitants.
8.Upgrading the ground and commercial floors at the neighborhood and its surrounding streets.
9.Promoting the quarter's linkage with urban centers and the sea.
Plan schemes
The proposal includes an addition to the neighborhood as a whole of approximately 8,000 square meters of public buildings + approximately 7,000 m² for the expansion of the school and additional public parking lots.
Complex setting of approximately 20 dunams at the heart of the neighborhood as a "Conservation Complex' with unique construction and development characteristics, in which the height of the buildings shall be restricted to 4 floors and an attic, and the public space shall be nurtured.
Setting incentives for the conservation complex.
Setting an addition of 500 units ("Floating units") to the neighborhood as a whole, to encourage urban renewal initiatives.
Setting the parcels along the streets - Katznelson, Yerushalaim and Ha'atzmaut Ave., as a texture in which specefi specific construction shall be enabled, which is exceptionally high within its surroundings. Building additions shall be permitted in these streets, while using the floating units, subject to the approval of the construction plan of the local committee.
Setting Daniel St. and part of Ha'Hagana St. and the "Well Square" as pedestrian-oriented streets with guidelines for moderating the traffic and for the development of the public space.
The plan offers a specific intervention in several selected areas, with the intention to utilize them as growth drivers for the development of the neighborhood as a whole:
1. Setting two Urban Renewal complexes next to Rabin Garden, on an area of about two dunams each, with an addition of 240 housing units and a significant increase in public areas.
2. Expansion of the school with a process of Urban Renewal and through mobilization of the present apartments in area cell 305 to area cell 300.
Further, by setting a special complex which includes the school and its surrounding area cells with an addition of building rights for public buildings.
Planning team:
Housing Ministry, Division of Urban Renewal: Architect Einat Ganon Architect Galit Ronen
Architecture and Urban Construction; "Makom Architecture and Urban Planning" - Architect Sigal Seroussi in collaboration with Architect Hagit Antman
Bat Yam municipality: Architect Yehoshua Patael, Architect Dafna Levin ,Guri Nadler
Landscaping : "1:1 Landscape Architecture and Urban Design" Architect Havi Livne
Traffic: Yaron Evron eng.
Infrastructures: Malin Engineers
Project management:” Tik project-team”
Zeev Temkin and Doron Amit
Society and Program: Oded Kotok
Appraisal: Haim Mesilati Firm
Survey: Madba Aryeh Fishman, Shelly Verzger
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