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Michal Ziso | Architect

THE MILL2.5 KMRE-START

Michal Ziso | Architect

The Mill. Fifth year final project | Re-use, from industrial factory to a creative hub | Tel Aviv, IsraelProfessors: Arch. Pitsou Kedem, Arch. Uri Mazor | Technion | Michal Ziso

"Eyes mark the shape of the city. Through the eyes of a high-flying night bird, we take in the scene from midair. In our broad sweep, the city looks like a single gigantic creatureor more, like a single collec-tive entity created by many inter-twining organisms. Countless arter-ies stretch to the ends of its elusive body, circulating a continuous supply of fresh blood cells, sending out new data and collecting the old, sending out new consumables and collecting the old, sending out new contradictions and collecting the old. To the rhythm of its pulsing, all parts of the body flicker and flare up and squirm. Midnight is approaching, and while the peak of activity has indeed passed, the basal metabolism that maintains life con-tinues undiminished, producing the basso continuo of the city's moan, a monotonous sound that neither rises nor falls but is pregnant with foreboding." Haruki Murakami, After Dark.

The city of Tel Aviv is a very intensive, fast paced metropolis and at the same time has qualities of a slow motion mediteranian beach city. Tel Aviv, like every other big city, is always changing and it's streets, it's buildings, it's volumes have to change accordingly. The project deals with the re-use of a working flour mill factory in downtown Tel Aviv, turning it into a creative working and showing machine, which brings life to the area, connects the edges of the city to it's core and suggests a new alternative center while answering some current prob-lems and issues in the specific urban fabric. The project focuses on maximizing or minimizing the pace of the city to the extreme while placing them side by side like islands.

Florentin

Washington Blvd.

Salame Rd.

Abulafia

Rabenu Hananel

Alfasi

Kibbutz Galuyot Rd.

The site is located in downtown Tel Aviv. The working flour mill on Alfasi st. is a part of the indus-trial ring of the city which was first planned at the outskirts but became an “island” as the times changed.

Site Analysis“Cities are informed and imagined by many people at a time. Cities are an open stage for complementary and conflicting encounters. Cities are the backdrops for dreams and desires.” |Petra Kempf

You Are Downtown TLV is an attempt to crack the genetical code and to discover the framework of downtown Tel Aviv. A mapping tool based on Arch. Petra Kempf’s diagrams. This mapping tool con-sists of layers of information. When compiled in different ways, various conclusions can come to mind regarding the nature of the area and what can be done.

LayersThe layers are divided into four groups: cosmo-logical grounds; perceptive boundaries defind-ers; nexus; dreams desires and expectations.

cosmological groundsfixed and defined entities, economical or social, which defines human activity in the publi public space

perceptive boundaries defindersphysical or mental boundaries found in the public realm

nexusrings made by connection of similar activities in the public realm

dreams desires and expectationsidentifying potentials for urban development

loops and connectors

blvd. ring activityfactorty living ringwork ring activity

islands

living islandmill islandblvd. island

street type

livinginside voids

function ties

studio/art/designleisurework-shopthe mill

blvd. useswhite noise

white noise

catalyst

b.r.a.

f.l.r.

w.r.a.

cosmological grounds

nexusnexus

catalystwork-shop/studio

small/medium/large

place of activity

time zones

daynight

dreams desires and expectations

currents

mill knot

departures and arrivalsflows

perceptive boundaries definders

dreams desires and expectations

perceptive boundaries definders

boundaries

street type

function tiesplace of activityboundaies

currents time zones

loops and connectorsmill knot islands

The mapped layers are: street type|living, inside voids, blvd. uses, white noise, block, catalyst, work-shop/studio, small/medium/large; loops and connectors| blvd. ring activity, factory living ring, work ring activity; boundaries; place of activity; currents| departures and arrivals, flows; time zones| day, night; mill knot; function ties| studio/art/design, leisure, work-shop, the mill; islands| living island, mill island, blvd. island

street type

livinginside voidsblvd. useswhite noise

white noise

catalyst

catalystwork-shop/studio

small/medium/large

street type

function ties

loops and connectors

Conclusions

keeping Salame st. as “pace transition-ing axe” with Washington blvd. piercing/connecting north to south

closing the activity ring with the west-ern streets

exposure of “artistic” functions (in the area) to the street

labaling Alfasi. st. as ‘catalyst’ of activ-ity and transforming it into a ‘pedes-trian only’ street

Creative HubThe northern neigborhood of Florentin is suffering from gentrification. There is a large number of young artists who came to live in this neigborhood and now will have to find a new place to live. In the mill area there is percola-tion of artist, designers, architects etc. Together they make up the ‘creative class’ whose most basic need is a stimulating urban environment where and from which they could operate - creative hub. The re-use of the flour factory and its transformation to a creative hub will consist of working and showing galleries. The top floor - 33 meters above ground will be the ‘mill lounge’ - connection and discon-nection to the city with a one of a kind view. The mill will be part of a new area with affortable housing, a bou-tique hotel, cafe’s and restaurants, a book store and a large art store.

using the proximity of the many work-shops to the mill and creating a synergy

balancing day-night activity to create a 24/7 active area

create show

mill block

ליצור

לייצר

להציג

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workshopsarea

1 Bedroom 500sqm 93.6 sqm3 Bedroom56 sqm1 Bedroom

56 sqm1 Bedroom

72 sqm2Bedroom86 sqm3 Bedroom

80 sqm2 Bedroom66 sqmBe&Make

85 sqm3 Bedroom

57 sqm1 Bedroom

2 Bedroom1150sqm

3 Bedroom 500 sqm

Boutique Hotel 2400sqmBe&Make Studio 360sqmClosed Square 290sqm

The Nill 3500sqm

Glass Garden 600sqmEat.Drink. 400sqmBakery Cafe’ 130sqmArt Store 200sqmBook Shop 150sqmMill Lounge 230sqm

Cafe’Restaurant

MainPiazza

‘Bring Your Own Chair’ Screening Area

Existing PlanExisting Section

The flour factory (built in 1950) consists of two main functional parts: the grain silos volume based on a 2.5m*2.5m grid of 40/40cm concrete columns which rise up to 25m-38m, creating elongated shafts in which are the silos; the flour sifting machine rooms, divded into 6 floors (the process is from top to bottom).

The re-use of the mill includes preserving the concrete facade and the construction of the building, all of the 148 concrete columns, creating a large and very intense space, streching to 847sqm, rising to 25m-38m. The preservation of the facade and the columns maintains the building’s vertical qualities.

Lobby RingsInspired by REX’s* interpretation of the rela-tionship between the museum’s lobby to its galleries (two left images), the sectional lobby, ring (completed with elevators) creates auto-nomic galleries (right image).

*REX - Munch Museum

the classic museum with a gallery loop from and to the lobby

REX’s new arrange-ment of a lobby ring with a gallery core The Mill’s sectional lobby ring completed with elevators

Lobby Rings

joints detail

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+32.20

+29.10

+25.00

+20.50

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+12.30

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The main circulation in the mill is by seven stand-alone elevators, maintains the vertical qualities and creates a machine-like operating building. The second-ery circulation is by stairs, once between each verti-cal core, which is completed by a full outer staircase. The cores consists of an elevator and 5-8 independent platforms.

Circulation | section A-A

Lower Lobby - concrete and steel vs. black marble

Upper Lobby - concrete and steel vs. wood

The horizontal surfaces are added in the form of light platforms supported by the existing columns which are reinforced accordingly. These platforms are grouped into four free-standing cores. At the ground floor all of the columns are found, as we go higher in the building there are less columns and larger platforms so the space balance is kept. The platforms vary from gallery platforms to transitioning platforms.

Platforms

local section| secondery enterance

lan (+

second floor plan (+8.20) third floor plan (+12.30)

fifth floor plan (+20.50) upper lobby | sixth floor plan (+25.00)

seventh floor plan (+29.10) eighth floor plan (+33.20)

The galleries have to hold any kind of artistic expression, they have to vary in size, lighting and acuostical conditions. The Mill galleries are divided into three typologies: open space divided by portable patitions; closed spaces which have autonomic control of its lighting and acoustics; and aquarium galleries consisting of a glass box which can hold an art display or be a working space which then becomes the (living) art.

Galleries

Elevator

Entranc

Gallery1

Gallery3

Elevator

Meetin

Gallery6

Gallery3

Meetin

Gallery1

Roof 2

Meetin

Gallery6

Gallery1

Roof 2

Gallery6

Gallery1

Roof 2

Gallery6

Gallery1

Roof 2

Meetin

Roof 2

Gallery8

Mill Lo

Gallery2

XLGalle

Gallery2

Gallery7

Elevator

Meetin

Roof 8

Meetin

Roof 8

Gallery1

Gallery2

Gallery4

Gallery2

Gallery1

Gallery5

Roof 2

Main Paths via elevators

Inside Stair Connection

Skin Stair Connection

Roof tops Connection

Dead End Stop

Path Intersection

Continuation Stop

ConnectionsPlatform Layout

G-1SG-2SG-3SG-1MG-2MG-3MG-4MG-5MG-6MG-7MG-8MG-1L

G-2LG-3LG-2XLMeeting-G-E6Meeting-E7Meeting-R8-E1Meeting-R8-E2Meeting-R25Mill Lounge G-XL

Platform Volumes

Main entrance | section B-B

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joints detail

skin detail

Secondary circulation | the SkinThe stair circulation inside the Mill is completed by the ‘fire-escape’ like staircase on the outer eastern facade of the building. This staircase is sheltered by a perforated metal skin, which creates a usable outer space in the form of elongated balconies which stretches along side the whole facade. This staircase connects the cores and also brings in screened light into the interior of the Mill while creating an interesting sisplay of light and shadow. The skin, seperated from the concrete wall by 2.5m (module), also creates a cooling shaft which helps the ventilation of the space.

The main entrance to the mill, from the glass garden into the lower lobby, reveals the whole building at once. Since the platforms grow bigger as we go up the floors, the visitor can get a full grasp of the space from the first step. The seconday entrance is by a small staircase, carved into the south-ern conrete wall, almost unvisible from the street since it is lower than eye level. The visitor then experiances several volume transformations - from the open street, down to the the mill’s basement, from there up to ‘roof-25’ by elevator, from which he gets a great vista of the city, and then down to the platforms, each one revealed as he goes down | the flour experience.

Seconday entrance

The vision of ‘the pace and the islands’ recieve it’s translation in different scales: from the urban scale of finding an island of different kind of activity in the existing fabric of the area, to the smaller scale of the site and the build-ing, and down to the selection of materi-als - rough materials next to soft materi-als such as wood and light | minimal-ism vs. indsustrialism.

The architecture of the building is it’s structure and it’s structure is the achi-tecture, therefor the structure of the platforms remained bare and exposed.

All the floors and platforms of the Mill are seperated by a narrow gap from the concrete walls which defines the diffrences betweein the materials, the old and the new, and the verticallity.

Minimalism vs. Industrialism

apoxy floor

woodbeams

railconcretecolumnvertical

platform to column joint detail

|The flour factory is not here anymore. It was moved out of the city. The building in which the machinces once worked and the grains were stor-aged is still here, and inside - a whole new life. The new Mill is a huge building which holds galleries, show-rooms and work-rooms. Each space is different. The young artists that live right here, can use the aquarium spaces for creating their art, while they become the living art themsleves. When they are finished they can use the many work-shops nearby in order to execute their creations or just leave their work for show in the aquarium or any of the other 23 spaces for show. The Mill is also the space used to showcase the products of the many design offices and studios in the area. The versatility of the spaces enables different kinds of events to take place, from small events in the closed platforms to a very large gala in the top or bottom lobby, or even in the glass garden foyer. The Mill is full of acticity 24/7, people are always coming in and out. Since the street is for pedestrians only, the buildings near the Mill create different kinds of squares, like the one infront of the big south facade which became place for screening movies and video-art. From all the houses near-by people always bring out chairs and enjoy what’s going-on on the wall. You can always find a few chairs in the morning where you can sit and have your usual morning coffee.|

‘Bring your own chair’ Screening Area | Epilogue

2.5 kmPublic Space Design, 4th yearArch. Andreas KiparArch. Pierra ChiuppaniPolitecnico di Milano I t a l y

Michal ZisoTechnion - Israeli Institute of T e c h n o l o g yHaifa - Israel

Adi SternBezalel- The Academy of Arts and DesignJerusalem - Israel

THE MILL

RE-START

The 2.5 kmUrban Space Design in San Donato Milano - ItalyThe Project: focuses on a 2.5 km axe, which crosses diagonally from the transportation station of San Donato to the fields. The Concept: defining the axe as land-scape vs. urban, adding according to a mathematical analysis vertical land-scape and horizontal architecture. The Method: dividing the axe into 13 points (one on each junction and one exactly in between), carefully analyz-ing each by measurable parameters. Then, using the results in order to create the specific intervention in each point. The Module: a construction box sized 4m*4m*4m, which its quantity, spread, surface number, etc., is deter-mined by the analysis. We created very strong end points to the axe in points 0 and 12 - fields in boxes and boxes in a field.

San DonatoA neighborhood in the south-east of the city of Milano, Italy. The main entrance to the area from north-west where the train station is found. The edge of the neighbor-hood is at the south-east where the fields begin. The neighborhood stretches this direction, from urban to rural.

The TwistThe concept to the project suggested is to make the inter-vention using contrasts to the existing axe - adding vertical landscape and horizonal built architecture.

In order to do so, an anlaysis of the axe was made, by dividing it into 13 points and to sampe each one in a 100m radius. The elements analyzed: percentage of open vs. closed view; distance from blocks/barriers; percent-age of vegitation and biult mass; distance from the starting point; width of the street; road/cross-road.

Point DistanceFromStart

Bldg.Density

OpenView

TreeDensity

Edges StreetWidth

Road/CrossRoad

0.06km

0.29km

0.56km

0.63km

1.36km

0.59km

0.81km

2.07km

2.38km

22% 56% 2% 0 0m

6% 86% 20% 9 82m

4% 88% 49% 5 53m

9% 69% 44% 0 0m

9% 50% 68% 6 15m

8% 83% 23% 0 0m

9% 61% 50% 9 86m

0% 100% 3% 0 0m

3% 87% 7% 0 0m

10% 75% 9% 4 0m

11% 74% 14% 0 0m

18% 49% 37% 10 147m

19% 66% 57% 3 0m

2.5 km

2-V.Caviaga 3-P.Santa Barbara 4-V.le Gasperi 5-Rondo di Truizzo 6-V.le Gasperi 7-V.le Gasperi 8-V.le Gasperi 9-V.le Gasperi 10-V.le Gasperi 11-Rondo della Ricerca 12 - Fields0-Station 1-V.Caviaga

RE-START

architectoniccountry horizontal vegitationverticalurban

Pixeli

Main axe section

VEGITATION - inversed ratio to tree density

SURFACE QUANTITY - inversed ratio to building density

MODULE REPETITION - direct ratio to open view

SCATTERED VS UNIFIED - road vs crossroad

SECTION SKYLINE - width in inversed ratio tostreet width, hight in inversed ratio to edges

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

VEGITATION - inversed ratio to tree density

SURFACE QUANTITY - inversed ratio to building density

MODULE REPETITION - direct ratio to open view

SCATTERED VS UNIFIED - road vs crossroad

SECTION SKYLINE - width in inversed ratio tostreet width, hight in inversed ratio to edges

Main axe section Section close up

Vegitation, point 0 - 100%

Vegitation, point 1 - 50%

Surface Quantity, point 0 - 78%

Surface Quantity, point 0 - 94%

Module Repetition, point 0 - 56%

Module Repetition, point 0 - 86%

point 0 - unified

point 0 - scatterd

Point 1, Width - 8m Hight - 8m

Point 0, Width - 12m Hight - 24m

The DiagonalSince the analysis was kept only to single valued parameters, they could be then translated into visualized pixles and test the outcome on the map. Another tool used was to put all the param-eters in a diagram based on the section of the axe marked by the 13 points.

In order to fulfill the concept and to achieve a substantial influence, we translated the data into architectural and landscape elements in an oppo-site ratio - we looked at the values that were missing to complete the 100% and added them while keeping the concept of vertical landscape, horizonal built architecture.

ground floor plan 1:200 first floor plan 1:200 second floor plan 1:200 third floor plan 1:200 fourth floor plan 1:200 fifth floor plan 1:200 roof plan 1:200

Point 12 - The Urban Stracture

ground floor plan 1:200 first floor plan 1:200 second floor plan 1:200 third floor plan 1:200 fourth floor plan 1:200 fifth floor plan 1:200 roof plan 1:200

Point 0 - The Green Structure, Vertical Garden, A landscape box

Fields in boxes | Boxes in fieldsThe points shown are the extreme points - point 0 - the most urban, and point 12 - most rural in the fields. A module of 4m*4m*4m was built, which consisted of only constructural frames. The data was translated into the amount of horizonal and vertical plains (floors and walls) to be added in adition to vegitation and materi-als. The outcome - point 0 - the green structure | the vertical garden, and point 12 - the urban concrete tower in the fields.

RE-STARTUrban Design Studio, 3rd yearLandscape Arch. Asif BermanArch. Zvi Koren

Michal ZisoMoshe DalyMichal AraziTechnion - Israeli Institute of T e c h n o l o g y

THE MILL2.5 KM

ReStartThe man contaminated the land. Nature took over. Now, the man is coming back. As a visitor.The project is dealing with contaminated land due to an Asbestos factory in the northern part of the city of Nahariya. The Asbes-tos fibers are spread in the air with each contact, causing danger to human lives. The project suggests treating the contaminated land with natural bacteria, which will eventually purify the land, in a cross of 10-20 years. meanwhile, the land is not to be in contact with, therefore we will build high above it, on piers and stilts, and with each stage of purifying we will build lower untill we will touch the ground again.

Nahariya | The intoxication Nahariya is a city by the shoreline of northern Israel. The industrial zone is located in the north of the city. Between 1952-97 a factory called “Eitanit” manufactured building materials made of a dangerous substance called - asbestos. Asbes-tos is a naturally accuring silicate mineral and is very toxic. The inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause seriouse illnesses including lung cancer and asbestosis cancer. Nowadays, great amounts of exposed asbestos resedue are found in the area of the factory and the entire industrial zone. With each contact with vehicles, weather changes, diggings and even human steps, the asbestos is spread and thus risking human lives.

Nahariya | The treatmentThe ways to treat asbestos-contaminated land are either clearing the area and “moving” the prob-lem away, covering it with thick layers of con-crete or fencing the area and restricting any entrance.After several researches, we found that there is a kind of blue bacteria called ‘Cyanobacteria’, which is able to help treat the contaminated land. This bacteria can first stabilize the land and prevent the asbestos fibers from getting released to the air. In the longer term, of 10-20 years, the bacteria can actually dissolve the asbestos completly and clear the area. The Re-Start projects deals with the first step of haveing a very large area that you can breath around but not step on.

Two SystemsAfter mapping out the levels of infection in each area of the indus-trial zone we decided to treat each level of infection in a different way. The areas with the highest level of infection will be covered, and the rest will be treated with stabilizing vegitation and bacte-ria. The project deals with two systems: the lower system - a viewed only park, and an upper autonomic system of piers which enables a new and different experience of open space.

ReStart ParkThe new park will be a recharging pump to the city of Nahariya. As such, new organization is evolving around it - A new mixed use urban quarter which will include light industry, housing, business and commerce area, culture and entertainment. This quarter will nourish and be nurished by the new park.

The New QuarterThe new mixed-use urban quarter will also be based on two systems, upper and lower, literally realizing the terms “Up-town” and “Down-town”. The lower system will be down-town and will consist of the light industry, business and commerce functions. The upper system or the up-town will consists of housing and leisure. The new street level will be the ground level of the upper system - level 3, which will stretch out to form the piers over the ReStart Park.

ReStart Park

Mixed-use Quarter

The Piers

EpilogueThe lower system will remain autonomic and untouched untill the land would be purified by organic means in a long process. Once it is safe, the people will be able to re-contact the ground. Until then, the park will serve as a living museum for people to watch, enjoy and learn from.

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