Porter School of Environment Architecture Project- Tel Aviv is the forty-one article on projects from practice. This project is an architecture project located on the north side of Tel Aviv Yafo and adjacent to the Aylon Hwy. The site is hilly and has a clear view of the surroundings and lots of green spaces and gardens all around the site of this project. The proximity to the city center gives the site another advantage of available public services, other facilities and infrastructure related to the school study program, and lots of accommodations to suit the student’s needs. This architectural development includes the principles of deconstruction-style architecture. The project was announced as a competition and several consultancy firms participated the winner was one of the city of Tel Aviv architecture firms. See Figure 1, the site Location of the project from Google.
Porter School of Environment Architecture Project- Tel Aviv is an educational building architecture project comprised of a ground, four-story, and basement development on a single block. The building was designed as a “green architecture building” integrating the three elements of sustainability – environment, society, and economy – into architecture. The consultancy firm considered using environmental parameters (such as solar radiation, wind, acoustics, and more) in designing the building form that would fit the context of the site. The building will make use of passive and active technologies for the production of energy, energy conservation, and recycling of waste and water. The building in its entirety is intended as a research laboratory for green architecture, unique in Israel and the region, which will advance academic research in the area as well as remaining accessible to the public. As such, the building architecture focuses on educational aspects of the environmental systems and ideas enshrined within the building. See Figure 2,3 the external photo of the building from the front and the rear side.
The dynamic form of the building is created by the space tension between two elements, everyone has its unique character. The “eco wall” is designed as the ethereal lattice and the central mass of the key building function of classes and study halls as a body “floating” above ground level. Between these two structures an atrium is created, providing a space for movement, meetings, and public activity. This and other meeting spaces in the building were designed with the understanding that public spaces in an academic building contribute to interaction and the development of ideas in a non-formal setting. See Figure 4, the side photo of the building showing the two elements of design.
The basement floor plan includes the multipurpose hall with all its related facilities the teacher’s rooms, services, stores for furniture and equipment, vertical circulation, and emergency exits from two sides to outdoor space. See Figure 5, the basement floor plan of the building.
The ground floor plan includes the building’s main entrance, the open space gathering area, the cafeteria, related kitchen and services, the outdoor café sitting, and the vertical circulation to the upper floors by staircases and elevators. See Figure 6, the ground floor plan of the building.
The first-floor plan includes the classrooms, of large size, the computer and workshops as well as related services and vertical circulation. The other part of the floor plan, the eco wall, is connected by a bridge and open space below. See Figure 7, the first-floor plan of the building.
The second floor and the third-floor plans are of the same function including the study rooms, research rooms, and students meeting areas for research and discussion, as well as a main meeting room in the elliptic mass in the eco wall connected by a bridge walkway. Adding to that is a main corridor that connects all rooms and vertical circulation and access view to the panoramic space below the eco wall. See Figure 8,9 the second floor and third floor plan of the building.
The fourth floor, the roof floor, is the floor that includes the equipment of the green building system such as the solar cells, wind farm posts, and the green area adding to the screens that provide shading. See Figure 10, the roof floor plan of the building.
In the below sections, figures 11, and 12 the building is clearer in terms of design concerning each other and outdoors. Figure 11 shows the longitudinal sections going through all the building from the basement to the roof showing all features of the building and its heights.
The following section shows the traverse section through the open space to the roof, the eco wall, the building itself, and the main entrance and landscape in the outdoor space.
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