Spontaneous Architecture

2005-2016

5/25/2013

Construction - Day 1

First survey - site of pruned trees


Working on site: Making an 80X80cm deep hole for the foundation






Didn't find oil!





Temporarily securing the area
 




NEXT DAY: Sorting up big branches for the base column 

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Words: guy erlich, Hiriya, michelle hites, Residue group, shamir zalkin, wood

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Words: Ariel Armoni, Asee, Einat Gazit, Elad Yahana, Hiriya, Park Ariel Sharon, Reed, Sarah Cohen Nechemia, the sangam, weaving

5/21/2013

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5/20/2013



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SPONTANEOUS ARCHITECTURE

The studio for Spontaneous Architecture was founded in 2005 by Sharon Rotbard at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. At Spontaneous Architecture , students invent experimental straying techniques, explore improvised construction materials and develop immediate technologies. During the program, the students build the first building in their career and spend there the last night of the semester.

Spontaneous Architecture is the 2012 recipient of the Arieh and Eldar Sharon Award for Creative Students and winner of the 1st prize of the AIQ Best Project of the Year 2012 in the students' category.

Selected Projects

  • SABA 2014 Spring > OCCUPYTLV Tent City > Black Water > Ben Caspi, Noa Segev, Yoed Granovski, Emmanuelle Cassot
  • SABA 2014 Spring > OCCUPYTLV Tent City > Grey Water > Adam Aharon, Anat Malka, Arkady Bobritzky, Dror Tshuva, Liat Sandbank
  • SABA 2013: Summer > Mitzpe Ramon > SABTA - Kfir Fabrik, Hanan Luzon, Keren Shahar, Abigail Scholman
  • SABA 2013: Summer > Mitzpe Ramon > Loess - Daniel Freaund, Tamar Levinger, Hadar Porat, Yemima Tamir
  • SABA 2013: Spring in Hiriya > Guy Ehrlich, Michelle Hites, Shamir Zalkin / Humanesting
  • SABA 2012 Summer: Rajpur, Gujarat, India > Hide and Seek - Ethan Bello, Stav Rabinovitch, Noa Rapoport, Mittul Sindhav, Germain Tubigev / Open Kindergarden
  • SABA 2012 Summer > Safi Barar / Apple Tree Mandir, in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights
  • SABA 2011 Summer: Halvad, Gujarat, India > Group He - Matan Pizante, Mevaseret Recanati, Rajandra Mahendra, Yael Johnson, Yonatan Alon / Library
  • SABA 2011 Summer: Halvad, Gujarat, India > Gandhi Group - Alon Itzkin, Inbal Helzer, Itay Bechor, Tamar Alon / Open Classroom
  • SABA 2011 Spring: Surprise Colony > Natalie Ohana, Yael Kauffmann, Abigail Rosenstein / Post-feminist bubbled plastic inflatable bubble South Tel Aviv, Shapira Neighborhood More Nevohim temporary Garden
  • SABA 2010: Transportable Architecture for Disaster Areas > Ahmed Haruf, Nizar Nizam, Maxime Yakirevitch / Nylon Bag and Cardboard Box Box
  • SABA 2009: 0 budget Architecture > Rebecca David, Yisca Katz, Joshua Scarf / Egg-crate Shell Bezalel Historical Campus front yard
  • SABA 2009: 0 budget Architecture > Edith Kofsky, Motti Rauchverger, Sagi Schwartz / Construction Site Leftovers Lifeguard Hut Bezalel Historical Campus front yard
  • SABA 2007: Free Style Architectures > Liran Ben Ami, Moshe Rotem / TreeHouse Bezalel Historical Campus front yard
  • SABA 2006: Recycling Jerusalem > Ofer Bilik, Lisa Blechman, Noam Brikman / Hummus box’ covers Hut Jerusalem elementary school yard
  • SABA 2006: Recycling Jerusalem > Anat Dahari, Adam Gilboa, Yonatan Masri / "Coka-Inn" at Squated Rehavia Backyard

Press

  • S. Ganesan / Students design and build farmers’ mart in Karur (The Hindu, 25 October, 2014)
  • Yuval Saar / Students install temporary showers and toilets at the Arlozorov camp (HaAretz, June 2014, Hebrew)
  • Amnon Director / Architecture Students from Bezalel Build toilets and showers for homeless people at the Arlozorov camp (Timeout Tel Aviv, June 2014, Hebrew)
  • Amir Azoullay / Architecture students on the cliff: on SABA Summer 2013 project in Mitzpe Ramon (Kvish 40, Hebrew)
  • Naama Riba / What happens when architecture students have to design real structures? - On SABA 2013 Hiriya project (XNET, July 2013, Hebrew)
  • SABA 2012 Rajpur project features at the "Gandhinagar Samchar"
  • Esther Zandberg / Good morning Rajpur, Haaretz (November 22, 2012, Hebrew)
  • Gujarati VTV on SABA's Rajpur project (October 2012, Gujarati)
  • Lakshmi Ajay / CEPT, Israeli university architecture students hand-make classrooms: on SABA Rajpur project (Indian Express, October 5th, 2012, English)
  • Amruta Trivedi / Israeli Gandhigiri in the land of Bapu - on SABA Rajpur project (The Times of India, October 1st, 2012, English)
  • The Halvad project in the book "Going Public" (Gestalten press, Berlin, 2012, English)
  • The Halvad project at the Giornale dell'Architectura Magazine (2012, Italian)
  • The Halvad project at Plataformaarquitectura.cl (2012, Spanish)
  • The Halvad project at Archdaily.com (2012, English)
  • Esther Zandberg on "Coca-Inn", a project by Anat Dahari, Adam Gilboa, Yonatan Masri, reconstructed at the Bezalel 100th Jubilee exhibition in the old terminal of the Ben Gurion Airport (HaAretz, August 3rd, 2006, Hebrew)

Past and present faculty

  • Akbar Nazim Modan / Quake Resistance
  • Alon Itzkin / Halvad Class Room
  • Amit Mandelkern / o2a studio
  • Guy Re Moor
  • Inbal Helzer
  • Keren Engelman / Happy World Architecture
  • Liran Ben Ami / Tree House
  • Or Aleksandrowicz / Kurkar, cement, Arabs, Jews: How to construct a Hebrew city [in Hebrew], 2010, Teorya ve-Bikoret (Theory and Criticism) 36: 61-87
  • Parth Shah / Our People Tree - BPS Architects
  • Sharon Rotbard / White City, Black City (English)
  • Simon Krantz

Partners

  • ATMA - Ahmedabad Textile Mills' Association
  • Auroville Bamboo Centre
  • Bezalel Academy, Architecture Department
  • CARE School of Architecture, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
  • CEPT university Ahmedabad, Architecture Faculty
  • Centre for Environment Education - India
  • Chandigarh College of Architecture
  • Krishi Vigyan Kendra Tiruchirappalli
  • Mitzpe Ramon Local Council
  • Park Ariel Sharon
  • Ramon Eco Center
  • Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad
  • Tel Aviv Municipality

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cover photo: Spontaneous Architecture farewell project

Spontaneous Architecture farewell project in 1 of January 2016 was a temporary tent erected with the inhabitants of historical Beduin village of Al Araqeeb. This pavilion was built for the book launch of the Hebrew edition of Eyal Weizman's book "The Conflict Shoreline" (the beautiful English Steidl edition of this book, in collaboration of artist Fazal Sheikh, can be found here). The book documents and analyses the tragic case of this Beduin village, which so far has been demolished by the Israeli authorities and rebuilt by its inhabitants over 100 times.

The structure was planned with Aziz Al-Touri, erected in few hours by the local community aided by volunteers and was to be removed within 48 hours. Materials were to be reused for further doomed-to-be-demolished new reconstructions.

The publication of the book, as well as the organization of the project and the events, were the initiative of Zochrot, an NGO working since 2002 to promote acknowledgement and accountability for the ongoing injustices of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948.

More about this venue, titled "Ground Truth: Records of Dispossession, Destruction and Return in the Naqab/Negev"

Toward a non-violent architecture: Summer 2014 in India

‪In summer 2014, between September 11th and October 23rd, Spontaneous Architecture returned to India for an International studio held in collaboration with CARE school of Architecture in Trichy.
‪The program combined a 3-week intensive traveling seminar in 3 very different Indian Cities (New Delhi, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad) with a 3-week spontaneous architecture workshop at the KVK research agricultural farm in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.‬
‪During this workshop, Israeli and Indian students worked together and designed and built 6 small structures that would serve for farmers' markets and exhibitions.‬

Spontaneous Architecture Summer 2014 in India Projects

  • E.T.G.R - Eliran Etz Hahaim, Maha Sweta, Aya Salalha, Vikraman
  • Ekh Tin Ekh - Bat-El Maimon, Kavya, Morad Seiger, Nofar Shamama, Maayan Turgeman
  • Maiyl - ‪Aishvarya Baskar, Sundar Meenakshi, Lior Skoury, Mor Ribak, Roni Schanin‬
  • Vayal - Krithika Bala, Tamar Luzon, Amit Miler, Manoj Siva
  • Putu in Pita - ‪Liza Schneider, Niveditha Elango, Omry Spasser, Krishna Uni Kishu‬
  • Pucchi Mucchi - ‪Nitzan Noy, Pratheep Shakthi, Rhadika Srini, Yotam Yered‬

Spontaneous Architecture Summer 2014 Partners

  • ATMA - Ahmedabad Textile Mills' Association
  • Auroville Bamboo Centre
  • CARE School of Architecture, Trichy
  • Chandigarh College of Architecture
  • Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Farm, Tiruchirappalli
  • Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad

Classics

  • BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS
  • Alex Nosakov / Home redefined
  • Gordon Matta-Clarck / Conic Intersection
  • Guy Ben Ner / Moby Dick
  • Israel Bright / Hatizmoret meshalemet Bishvil Lenaggen (The Orchestra pays in order to play)
  • Monument de la Renaissance Africaine
  • Mumbai barrier
  • No Itong No Buy
  • Peter Fischli and David Weiss / The way things go (1987)
  • Racheli Rutner / The Gumiot
  • Stone Enclosure, Near Kafnu, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh
  • Varanasi Laundry

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Bibliography

  • Laurie Baker / Brick Work (online edition)
  • Laurie Baker / Mud (online edition)
  • Guy Debord / The Society of the Spectacle (online English edition)
  • Hasan Fathy / Architecture for the Poor (online edition)
  • M.K. Gandhi / Satyagraha in South Africa (online edition)
  • M.K. Gandhi / Village Swaraj (online edition)
  • Dominique Laporte / History of Shit (online English edition)
  • Adolf Loos / Spoken Into the Void, Nevertheless (Hebrew edition, Babel)
  • Peter Rice / An Engineer Imagines (Hebrew edition, Babel)
  • Bernard Rudofsky / Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (online edition)
  • Ben-Ami Sharfstein / Spontaneity in Art: Improvisation, Movement, Innocence, Insanity, Surprise, Clowning and Inspiration (Hebrew edition, Am Oved)
  • Raoul Vaneigem / The Revolution of Everyday Life (online English edition)

Texts (English)

  • Guy Debord / Theory of the dérive
  • M.K. Gandhi / Village Swaraj
  • Gilles Ivain (Ivan Chtcheglov) / Formulary for a New Urbanism (1953)
  • Franz Kafka / In the Penal Colony
  • Adolf Loos / Rules for those building in the mountains
  • Sharon Rotbard / SABA Manifestos
  • Sharon Rotbard / Wall and Tower: the mold of Israeli Adrikhalut
  • Bernard Tschumi / Advertisements for Architecture (at We Find Wilderness)
  • Paul Virilio / The Museum of Accidents

Texts (Hebrew)

  • ז'אן נובל / להעז את האורנמנט
  • גי דבור / תיאוריית הסחף
  • פול ויריליו / ארכיטקטורה פוטנציאלית
  • פול ויריליו / מוזיאון התאונות
  • קלוד לוי-שטראוס / החשיבה הפראית - קטע
  • קלוד פארן / לשלוט על האתר
  • קלוד פארן / שני הזמנים של הארכיטקטורה
  • שרון רוטברד / הכנות, קווים לדמותה
  • אדולף לוס / כללים לבנייה בהרים

Black Water, Grey Water: Spring 2014 at OCCUPYTLV Tent City

In summer 2011 Tel Aviv experienced a huge wave of protest, mainly due to the housing prices. The protest occupied the city's center during all the summer, From July 14th, when young Dafni Leaf spontaneously erected a tent in Rothschild Boulevard to the September 3rd "One Million Demonstration" in Kikar Hanedina [State Piazza). Soon later, most of the protesters packed their tents and went back to their too expensive homes, leaving behind only those who insisted to stay and many others, who did not have anywhere else to go.

On November 27th 2012, in accordance to an agreement originally made between the activist Tamir Hajaj and the Tel Aviv Municipality, the remains of the summer 2011 Tel Aviv protest Tent City were removed from Rothschild Boulevard and exiled to the Volovelsky-Karney park. Situated in the Tel Aviv's north eastern margins, the park was a green island surrounded by one of Israel's heaviest traffic, Tel Aviv's Central railway Station, Namir Road, Petach Tikva Road, Ayalon Freeway (hence its most common name, "Tsomet Parachat Drahim" - Crossroads Junction). The location was chosen because it was one of the only parks in Tel Aviv with public toilettes.

In 2013, a large portion of the park, about a third, was fenced to become the construction site of the "Loop", a new, gigantic infrastructural project which is to add a new connection to the Ayalon freeway and maybe one day would become a new station of Tel Aviv's mysterious Metropolitan train system. Tent-dwellers residing in the fenced area where asked to move to the unfenced area. The public toilettes was demolished; chemical toilettes offered and maintained by a private subcontractor of the project 's contractor were placed instead.

Today, OCCUPYTLV Tent City oscillates between a protest sit-in, a homeless shelter and a favela, and is occupied by few dozens of individuals . Each one of the occupiers has his own reasons to be there, they all protest either by protesting or by their mere survival in this place. However, apart sharing the shrinking space and infrastructures, the only thing they have in common is that none of them wishes to form a community with the others, and they do not form any organized community.

During spring 2014 SABA worked at OCCUPYTLV Tent City.



Spring 2014 - OCCUPYTLV Tent City - Related Documents

  • Agreement between SABA and the Tel Aviv Municipality (13/1/2014) concerning the OccupyTLV settlement's building regulations
  • Joseph Zernik / A Letter to SABA

SABA Spring 2014 OccupyTLV teams

  • Parallel Thinking - Arkady Bobritzky, Liat Sandbank [Grey Water>Showers]
  • Tagoo - Adam Aharon, Anat Malka, Dror Tshuva [Grey Water>Washing Sinks]
  • home. less - Ben Caspi, Noa Segev [Black Water>Latrine]
  • YESA - Yoed Granovski, Emmanuelle Cassot [Black Water>Urinal]

Summer 2013, Mitzpe Ramon

Located almost in the middle of route 40 from Beer-Sheva to Eilat and situated on the edge of the Ramon Makhtesh - the world's largest makhtesh (erosion cirque in the form of crater), Mitzpe Ramon was first settled in 1951 for a brief period of time by the asphalt workers of the route.

Few years later, in 1956, it was founded as a cooperative settlement for the mineral mining workers. A year later the cooperative was dismantled and the state took over: the small settlement soon became a tiny "development town" designed according the state planning apparatus of the late fifties, stacking new immigrants from Morocco in public housing projects.

In the following decades few more populations moved in:

During the Eighties, with IDF's redeployment in the Negev after the retreat from Sinai, Mitzpe Ramon absorbed a new population of Military professionals' families; in the Nineties new immigrants from former USSR; from the end of the 20th century few religious communities as well as a massive wave of young population of professionals and artists attracted to the spectacular landscapes of the desert.

Mitzpe Ramon is toady a local Council surrounded by the Har Hanegev Regional Council. Mitzpe's population counts some 5000 inhabitants. In the last decade Mitzpe Ramon tries shifting from the industrial and mining uses originally planned to eco-tourism: The hangars industrial zone has been transformed into an arts and crafts quarter, the stone quarries have been closed down and are about to be restored, a new luxury hotel, "Bereshit", was built near the Makhtesh's cliffs.


SABA will be working in Mitzpe Ramon from August 25th 2013 to October 2nd.

Mitzpe Ramon 2013 teams

  • Beralle - Ayala Kandanyan, Tomer Laszlo, Ohad Solomon, Ginosar Wolf
  • Loess - Daniel Freaund, Tamar Levinger, Hadar Porat, Yemima Tamir
  • Projector - Israela Ardani, Nathan Cherniakov, Kosta Geysman, Michal Kolp
  • SABTA - Kfir Fabrik, Hanan Luzon, Keren Shahar, Abigail Scholman

Mitzpe Ramon

  • Mitzpe Ramon - Early photos from Israel's National Photo Collection
  • Mitzpe Ramon Between Beer Sheva and Eilat, a film by Nathan Gros, 1957
  • Mitzpe Ramon Municipality
  • Sharon Rotbard - Daroma (Southward)
  • Southward to... Mitzpe Ramon
  • The Site

Spring 2013: Spring in Hirya

In spring 2013 SABA arrived at Park Ariel Sharon in Hiriya. Initiated by Dr. Martin Weyl and planned by Latz+Partner, this project strives to rehabilitate the garbage mountain that has been sprawling in this place since the end of the Independence War, to develop 8000 Dunums of open areas, fields, streams and ponds and to re-use them for various cultural, natural and leisure activities.
During the semester, the students studied the park and its environmental challenges; they had to plan and to build 4 structures that cast shadows of 25 sqm each. The budget was fixed to zero. The structures will stand in the park from June 24th for 10 days.

Hiriya 2013, some sources

  • The magic mountain / Noam Dvir on Martin Weyl and the Ayalon park initiative
  • Tamir Sher / Garbage Mountain series (1998)
  • SABA 2013 Hiriya Program
  • Park Ariel Sharon
  • Latz+Partner, Hirya Park project
  • Hiriya on Google Maps
  • Hiriya Dan Recycling Authority
  • al-Khayriyya - الخيْريّة

Hiriya 2013 teams

  • Asee - Ariel Armoni, Einat Gazit, Elad Yahana, Sarah Cohen Nechemia
  • Niche - Jonathan Bar, Nati Elkayam, Shani Aizenkot
  • Residue - Guy Ehrlich, Michelle Hites, Shamir Zalkin
  • S.A.P - Amiram Miara, Bar Musan Levi, Dafna Bar Yosef

Rajpur, India 2012 - Participants

  • Carmit Batzir
  • Ethan Bello
  • Gilad Braverman
  • Hadas Salame
  • Léa Attias
  • Nitzan Eliyahu
  • Noa Rapoport
  • Omer Bar-Oryan
  • Raphael Koren
  • Roy Zvulun
  • Safi Barar
  • Stav Rabinovitz
  • Yaara Beja
  • Yamit Ashkenazi
  • Yonathan Stein

India 2012 - research and documentation

  • Architectural Tourism
  • Dérives
  • Spontaneous Technologies
  • Mandirs

The Rajpur 2012 workshop

  • Hide and Seek
  • Massala
  • My Group
  • Unistar

Halvad, India 2011 workshop

  • 0) SABA in India - Summer 2011
  • 00) Halvad CEE Campus site plan
  • 1) Gandhi Group
  • 2) Group He
  • 3) Acha Group
  • 4) Made in India

Halvad, India 2011 - Participants

  • Alex Nosakov
  • Alon Itzkin
  • Ayelet Ben David
  • Christina Keren Mendjul
  • Fouad Salem
  • Inbal Helzer
  • Itay Bechor
  • Matan Pisante
  • Mevaseret Recanati
  • Michal Rosenfeld
  • Oded Wieder
  • Ronen Sarudi
  • Tal Tomer
  • Tali Serebro
  • Tamar Alon
  • Yael Johnson
  • Yonatan Alon
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