Eighth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

Mitzpe Ramon is a unique city in the Israeli desert, located on the edge of a natural carter. I took this city as my case study for a dynamic urbanism principle, which I call “hyperplan.” Instead of a masterplan, which I consider very static, the hyperplan uses different dynamic tools as reversible vectors of various kinds in order to give the city its flexibility to expand and contract towards its borders, as a result of temporary, internal social/cultural needs and potentials. The hyperplan spreads over all scales contemporary. I planned the city dynamic plans, from environmentally vast spaces, through the dynamic streets, up until an invention of small local modular building structures, placed on the roofs of existing buildings, as a local catalyst for cultural, social, and economical purposes, reviving different neighborhoods, using the maximum potential of the urban spaces.