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AboutAmir Mueller Landscape Architects is operating since 2000, designing ecological and environmental knowledge-based landscape projects.Our team integrates ecological thinking and understanding of natural processes into its designs to provide better solutions for our clients and communities at large.
Freesland Park, Herzelia 2008
PhilosophyOur designs reflect our belief that successful landscape architecture design comes from an understanding of the ways in which people interact with the environment. Through collaboration with professionals and artists, we create landscapes that integrate ideas of stewardship, responsibility and cultural expression.
Bell Garden, Beer Sheva 2004
ServicesWe provide comprehensive
landscape architecture services which include site analysis, master planning, regional planning, and landscape architecture. In addition we provide specialty services in environmental design, including storm-water management, and landscape restoration.
Beit Eshel National Monument, Beer Sheva 2008
Work and Selected Projects
Environmental Public Work Parks and Gardens Residential and Resorts
Environmental
Ein Gev Birdwaching Site
Raba Creek Restoration
Northern Gas Lines
Netanya Regional Plan
Netanya Regional PlanGas Line Landscape Restoration
Raba Creek RestorationEin Gev Bird-watching Site
Ein Gev Bird-Watching Site
• Location: Eastern Shore of the Sea of Galilee
• Program: Comprehensive landscape restoration of abandoned sand quarry.
• Challenge: Develop a bird-watching site without disturbing nesting sites in soft sandstone wall.
• Client: Israel Society for the Protection of Nature; Ministry of Tourism.
• Status: Proposal 2003
• Area: 15 Hectares
• Credits: Israel Birding Center
Ein Gev Bird-watching Site – Mster Plan
Visitor Center and Spring
Hide and Trail
Main Entrance
Section at Spring
Bird-watching Hide – plan Visitor Center and Spring – plan
Ein Gev Bird-Watching Site
• Location: Eastern Shore of the Sea of Galilee
• Program: Comprehensive landscape restoration of abandoned sand quarry.
• Challenge: Develop a bird-watching site without disturbing nesting sites in soft sandstone wall.
• Client: Israel Society for the Protection of Nature; Ministry of Tourism.
• Status: Proposal 2003
• Area: 15 Hectares
• Credits: Israel Birding Center
Raba Creek Restoration
• Location: Raba Creek, Rosh Ha`ayin
• Program: Stream Restoration.
• Challenge: Restoring a degraded urban stream by re-thinking traditional methods of flood control.
• Solution: Creating an Urban river park where both banks and stream bed are accessible to the visitor at different times of the year.
• Client: Rosh Ha`ayin Development Company
• Status: Under Construction
• Area: 13.5 Hectares
• Credits: Eitan Eden, ArchitectRaba Creek Restoration Project – Main Area Detail
Raba Creek Restoration Project – Details
Raba Creek Restoration Project – Plan Detail
Raba Creek Restoration
• Location: Raba Creek, Rosh Ha`ayin
• Program: Stream Restoration.
• Challenge: Restoring a degraded urban stream by re-thinking traditional methods of flood control.
• Solution: Creating an Urban river park where both banks and stream bed are accessible to the visitor at different times of the year.
• Client: Rosh Ha`ayin Development Company
• Status: Under Construction
• Area: 13.5 Hectares
• Credits: Eitan Eden, Architect
Northern Gas Lines
• Location: Northern Israel
• Program: Landscape Restoration of Gas Line Right-of-Way.
• Challenge: Restoring ecologically sensitive area following extensive damage and degradation as a result of gas pipe laying.
• Solution: Implementing a comprehensive pre-construction salvage program by collecting, storing and re-planting a variety of rare indigenous plants and restoration of habitats.
• Client: Netivey Gas
• Status: Under Construction
• Area: 60 Kilometers
• Credits: Tahal Consulting Engineers
Northern Gas Line – Landscape Survey
Chinese Translation
Northern Gas Lines – After Construction
Northern Gas Lines – Before Construction
Northern Gas Lines
• Location: Northern Israel
• Program: Landscape Restoration of Gas Line Right-of-Way.
• Challenge: Restoring ecologically sensitive area following extensive damage and degradation as a result of gas pipe laying.
• Solution: Implementing a comprehensive pre-construction salvage program by collecting, storing and re-planting a variety of rare indigenous plants and restoration of habitats.
• Client: Netivey Gas
• Status: Under Construction
• Area: 60 Kilometers
• Credits: Tahal Consulting Engineers
Netanya Regional Plan
• Location: Netanya and North Sharon Region
• Program: Revision of the Central District Plan for the Netanya Region.
• Challenge: Allowing for population growth while preserving open space.
• Solution: Implementing a GIS based analysis and planning process to prioritize between demands for development and conservation.
• Client: Ministry of the Interior.
• Status: Master Plan completed.
• Area: 550 Sq. Km.
• Credits: Tsamir ArchitectsNatanya Regional Plan – Open Space Inventory
Natanya Regional Plan – Open Space Vulnerability
Netanya Regional Plan
• Location: Netanya and North Sharon Region
• Program: Revision of the Central District Plan for the Netanya Region.
• Challenge: Allowing for population growth while preserving open space.
• Solution: Implementing a GIS based analysis and planning process to prioritize between demands for development and conservation.
• Client: Ministry of the Interior.
• Status: Master Plan completed.
• Area: 550 Sq. Km.
• Credits: Tsamir Architects
Public Work
Rishonim High School
Eskolot Elementry School
Eshkolot Elementary School
Rishonim High School
Rishonim High School
• Location: City of Herzeliya
• Program: Master Plan for renovation of a high school campus.
• Challenge: Rearranging site to connect separate parts of a small and confined campus while providing a variety of use options to the students and the community.
• Solution: Design a series of interconnected courtyards to link otherwise separate areas; use materials and elements that enable multiple uses.
• Client: City of Herzeliya
• Status: Phase 1 and 2 completed
• Area: 0.8 Hectares Rishonim High School – Renovation Master Plan
Rishonim High School – View of Seat Wall
Rishonim High School – Phase 1 and 2 Rishonim High School – Entry Section
Rishonim High School
• Location: City of Herzeliya
• Program: Master Plan for renovation of a high school campus.
• Challenge: Rearranging site to connect separate parts of a small and confined campus while providing a variety of use options to the students and the community.
• Solution: Design a series of interconnected courtyards to link otherwise separate areas; use materials and elements that enable multiple uses.
• Client: City of Herzeliya
• Status: Phase 1 and 2 completed
• Area: 0.8 Hectares
Eshkolot Elementary School
• Location: City of Rishon LeZion
• Program: Master Plan for renovating an elementary school campus to include children with disabilities.
• Challenge: Planning a school yard that appeals to all students and allows severely disabled students to partake in school activities.
• Solution: Designing a dialectic garden that incorporates all school activities in a series of interconnected out-door class rooms.
• Client: City of Rishon LeZion
• Status: Proposal
• Area: 0.6 Hectares
Eshkolot Elementary School – Section at Main Courtyard
Eshkolot Elementary School – Master Plan
Chinese Translation
Eshkolot Elementary School – Detail
Eshkolot Elementary School – Detail
Eshkolot Elementary School
• Location: City of Rishon LeZion
• Program: Master Plan for renovating an elementary school campus to include children with disabilities.
• Challenge: Planning a school yard that appeals to all students and allows severely disabled students to partake in school activities.
• Solution: Designing a dialectic garden that incorporates all school activities in a series of interconnected out-door class rooms.
• Client: City of Rishon LeZion
• Status: Proposal
• Area: 0.6 Hectares
Gush Katif Memorial
Parks and Gardens
Verizland Garden
Gush Katif Memorial
Bell Garden
Beit Eshel National Monument
Verizland Garden
Bell Garden Beit Eshel National Monument
Verizland Garden
• Location: City of Herzeliya
• Program: Restoration and rehabilitation of a 60 year old European-style strolling garden.
• Challenge: Preservation of an existing stand of old Jerusalem Pines and modernizing an existing garden.
• Solution: Converting the garden into a modern outdoor community center while incorporating existing trees into overall garden design.
• Client: Herzeliya Development Company
• Status: Completed 2008
• Area: 1.8 Hectares
• Awards: First prize design competition 2002 Verizland Garden – View of Main Lawn
Verizland Garden – Preliminary Landscape Plan
Chinese Translation
Verizland Garden – View of Seating Area
Verizland Garden – View of Play Equipment
Verizland Garden
• Location: City of Herzeliya
• Program: Restoration and rehabilitation of a 60 year old European-style strolling garden.
• Challenge: Preservation of an existing stand of old Jerusalem Pines and modernizing an existing garden.
• Solution: Converting the garden into a modern outdoor community center while incorporating existing trees into overall garden design.
• Client: Herzeliya Development Company
• Status: Completed 2008
• Area: 1.8 Hectares
• Awards: First prize design competition 2002
Gusha Katif Memorial
• Location: Kisufim Forest
• Program: Memorial Park.
• Challenge: Developing a remote desert site with an existing eucalyptus grove into a lively outdoor community center.
• Solution: Creating a sense of place and belonging by using existing topography and natural clearings in the eucalyptus grove to change site and climate conditions through landscape expression.
• Client: Jewish National Fund, Southern District
• Status: Design Development
• Area: 12 Hectares
Gush Katif Memorial – Preliminary Landscape Plan
Gush Katif Memorial – Amphitheatre Detail
Chinese Translation
Gusha Katif Memorial
• Location: Kisufim Forest
• Program: Memorial Park.
• Challenge: Developing a remote desert site with an existing eucalyptus grove into a lively outdoor community center.
• Solution: Creating a sense of place and belonging by using existing topography and natural clearings in the eucalyptus grove to change site and climate conditions through landscape expression.
• Client: Jewish National Fund, Southern District
• Status: Design Development
• Area: 12 Hectares
Bell Garden Garden
• Location: City of Beer Sheva
• Program: City park.
• Challenge: Preservation of a century old Eucalyptus grove located in an enclosed basin while providing amenities for sports and recreation.
• Solution: Use earthworks to form and shape the park’s topography around existing trees and allow collection of rain water and runoff to minimize use of irrigation throughout the park.
• Client: Jewish National Fund, Southern District
• Status: Completed 2004
• Area: 4.3 Hectares
• Credits: Arie Rahamimove, Architect; Liora Miron, Architect
Bell Garden – View of Main Lawn
Bell Garden – Preliminary Landscape Plan
Chinese Translation
Bell Garden – View of Play Area
Bell Garden – View of Bridge
Bell Garden Garden
• Location: City of Beer Sheva
• Program: City park.
• Challenge: Preservation of a century old Eucalyptus grove located in an enclosed basin while providing amenities for sports and recreation.
• Solution: Use earthworks to form and shape the park’s topography around existing trees and allow collection of rain water and runoff to minimize use of irrigation throughout the park.
• Client: Jewish National Fund, Southern District
• Status: Completed 2004
• Area: 4.3 Hectares
• Credits: Arie Rahamimove, Architect; Liora Miron, Architect
Biet Eshel National Monument
• Location: City Of Beer Sheva
• Program: Park and visitor center surrounding a historic settlement.
• Challenge: Restoring a 1940’s abandoned agricultural research station and settlement with minimal visible impact.
• Solution: Apply methods of archeological restoration while creating an open-air museum displaying site history and agricultural achievements.
• Client: Jewish National Fund, Southern District
• Status: Construction phase 2
• Area: 5 Hectares
• Credits: Zvi Pasternak, Architect; Yaacov Shefer, Rstoration; Eitan Eden, Architect
Beit Eshel National Monument – Preliminary Landscape Plan
Beit Eshel– Research Station Before Restoration
Chinese Translation
Beit Eshel – Before Restoration
Biet Eshel National Monument
• Location: City Of Beer Sheva
• Program: Park and visitor center surrounding a historic settlement.
• Challenge: Restoring a 1940’s abandoned agricultural research station and settlement with minimal visible impact.
• Solution: Apply methods of archeological restoration while creating an open-air museum displaying site history and agricultural achievements.
• Client: Jewish National Fund, Southern District
• Status: Construction phase 2
• Area: 5 Hectares
• Credits: Zvi Pasternak, Architect; Yaacov Shefer, Rstoration; Eitan Eden, Architect
Residential and Resorts
Vision India
Beerot Hila
Jewish Brigade Street
Beerot Hila
Vision India
Jewish Brigade
Vision India
• Location: Chennai, India
• Program: Medium income, 2,500 unit residential development.
• Challenge: Create a diverse and unique living environment with a fresh take on nature and Indian tradition.
• Solution: Work with architect and developer to bring added value to the project by developing an urban corridor between buildings with gardens and places for social gatherings to create a sense of community.
• Client: Vision India Real Estate Developer
• Status: Conceptual Design
• Area: 8.2 Hectares
• Credits: MYS Architects
Vision India – Preliminary Landscape Plan
Vision India – View of Urban Corridor
Chinese Translation
Vision India – Water Garden Detail
Vision India
• Location: Chennai, India
• Program: Medium income, 2,500 unit residential development.
• Challenge: Create a diverse and unique living environment with a fresh take on nature and Indian tradition.
• Solution: Work with architect and developer to bring added value to the project by developing an urban corridor between buildings with gardens and places for social gatherings to create a sense of community.
• Client: Vision India Real Estate Developer
• Status: Conceptual Design
• Area: 8.2 Hectares
• Credits: MYS Architects
Beerot Hila
• Location: Beer Sheva
• Program: Golf course resort and entertainment complex.
• Challenge: Creating a lush landscape in a desert resort that is both drought tolerant and inviting.
• Solution: Using methods of rainwater harvesting combined with drought tolerant plants and extensive earthworks.
• Client: Iram Real-Estate Ltd.
• Status: Conceptual Design
• Area: 13 Hectares
• Credits: Moshe Zur Architects
Beerot Hila – Preliminary Landscape Plan
Beerot Hila – Mall Detail
Chinese Translation
Beerot Hila – Water garden Detail
Beerot Hila
• Location: Beer Sheva
• Program: Golf course resort and entertainment complex.
• Challenge: Creating a lush landscape in a desert resort that is both drought tolerant and inviting.
• Solution: Using methods of rainwater harvesting combined with drought tolerant plants and extensive earthworks.
• Client: Iram Real-Estate Ltd.
• Status: Conceptual Design
• Area: 13 Hectares
• Credits: Moshe Zur Architects
Jewish Brigade Street
• Location: City of Herzeliya
• Program: Medium income, 450 unit residential development.
• Challenge: Develop an open space system that allows for minimum rain water runoff and discharge from site.
• Solution: Collect all rain water runoff into a system of interconnected public open spaces and use the space as retention and infiltration basins.
• Client: City of Herzeliya
• Status: Construction of phase 1
• Area: 12 Hectares
Beerot Hila – Preliminary Landscape Plan
Jewish Brigade – Section Through path and Retention Basin
Chinese Translation
Jewish Brigade – Section Through Park with Infiltration Basin
Jewish Brigade Street
• Location: City of Herzeliya
• Program: Medium income, 450 unit residential development.
• Challenge: Develop an open space system that allows for minimum rain water runoff and discharge from site.
• Solution: Collect all rain water runoff into a system of interconnected public open spaces and use the space as retention and infiltration basins.
• Client: City of Herzeliya
• Status: Construction of phase 1
• Area: 12 Hectares
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