2. The site: ‘Nesher’ Cement Plant

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

4. Cement Plant
City of Nesher
Medium Industry
Natural Vegetation
Old Muslim Cemetery
Givat Nesher (neighborhood)
Recent Developments
Bodies of Water
Planned Railway
The urban components around the cement plant

5. The lack of an urban center in Nesher - Physical and Chronological Evolution
2000
1990
1960
1985
1930
1948
2013
1952
1942
1924
1975
1970

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

7. The main shed
Area
Dimensions
Scale
Area of intervention: the plant’s main shed

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

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

10. From inactive sheds situated in
the heart of an empty area
The concept: inverting the shed, creating a new main street
Into spaces surrounded by new structures
which empower the vast volume of the sheds

11. Ground floor plan
Principles of the architectural design

12. Program and functions

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

15. Phases of evolution
Connecting the
A Linking Arterymountain
with the lakes
As a first and a generating phase, a is a
The development of the main shed new
intensive urban center a main artery
The urban plan lays twoofcreated within
trigger for the creation isperpendicular
the existing main shed. In the next
systems the plant and Nesher.
betweenwhich are different from one
phases, the center gray system is
another: while the expands around the
shed, in the inlaid sustaining facilities.
responsible rest of the various places of
The artery isfor the withplant's and linking
The new the as a commercial and
between development that created the
interest, suchnew urban centerand is
gradually zone, science center, a green
city, the red system along and across
industrial expandinglinks between the
the linking artery which begins urban
area’s scenic resources: the Carmel
park etc., which "pumping" the at the
main shed and continues lakes. This
mountain and the
activity along it. plant's towards
Nesher.
system seeps through extended towards
This artery can also bethe built areas of
At the final phase of the the plant.
the open areas and through the main
urban plan south of urban
strategy, the neighborhood of Givat
shed, and connects various landscapes Nehser, which is the closest to the
the Carmel Natural Reserve and the
plant, in the west, with the lakes and
quarryexpands towards the new urban
center, through valley in the east.
the fields of the the abandoned plant's
quarry, and thereby "completes" the
urban sequence.
Principles of the urban strategy

16. Old Muslim cemetery
Secondary shed
Thank you.
Old quarry
Future areas of the urban expansion