The site: ‘Nesher’ Cement Plant

Nesher Cement plant: a local icon inlaid with unique, unused infrastructures

Cement Plant Natural Vegetation

Bodies of WaterRecent Developments

Old Muslim CemeteryCity of Nesher Medium Industry

Givat Nesher (neighborhood) Planned Railway

The urban components around the cement plant

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The new urban strategy: establishing an urban center within the old plant

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Dimensions

Area

Scale

The main shed

Area of intervention: the plant’s main shed

the main shed of the factory, in its current state: An enormous, deserted industrial space.

The vision: the plant’s main shed, rendered into a new, lively main street.

The concept: inverting the shed, creating a new main street

From inactive sheds situated in the heart of an empty area

Into spaces surrounded by new structures which empower the vast volume of the sheds

Ground floor plan

Principles of the architectural design

Program and functions

The new main street as a generator for a new urban strategy

A Linking Artery

The development of the main shed is a trigger for the creation of a main artery between the plant and Nesher.

The artery is inlaid with various places of interest, such as a commercial and industrial zone, science center, a green park etc., which "pumping" the urban activity along it.This artery can also be extended towards the open areas south of the plant.

Connecting the mountainwith the lakes

The urban plan lays two perpendicular systems which are different from one another: while the gray system is responsible for the sustaining and linking between the new urban center and the city, the red system links between the area’s scenic resources: the Carmel mountain and the plant's lakes. This system seeps through the built areas of the urban plan and through the main shed, and connects various landscapes - the Carmel Natural Reserve and the quarry in the west, with the lakes and the fields of the valley in the east.

Phases of evolution

As a first and a generating phase, a new intensive urban center is created within the existing main shed. In the next phases, the center expands around the shed, in the rest of the plant's facilities. The new development that created is gradually expanding along and across the linking artery which begins at the main shed and continues towards Nesher. At the final phase of the urban strategy, the neighborhood of Givat Nehser, which is the closest to the plant, expands towards the new urban center, through the abandoned plant's quarry, and thereby "completes" the urban sequence.

Principles of the urban strategy

Old Muslim cemetery

Secondary shed

Old quarry

Future areas of the urban expansion

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