
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
David Tajchman's first book about a self-initiated architectural research for a White City-specific High-Rise: the Gran Mediterraneo. Gathering working documents, sketches and rare pictures in an object specifically designed by graphic designer and art director Sara Jassim.In 2016, architect David Tajchman made public a self-initiated high-rise proposal on which he worked in secret during a few months. He decided to propose a new typology of skyscraper, more city-specific for Tel Aviv. Based on his previous observations that a new skyline is appearing in the White City, which according to his experience of the city and his knowledge of the local architectural history, does not take enough into account the 1930s and later Brutalist legacies. His yet unbuilt (but surely to get built) skyscraper is a spontaneous proposal from a foreign architect to the local decision makers, to open their eyes and their mind to other visions, for a more Tel Aviv-specific ver-tical architecture. The Gran Mediterraneo has been widely published as an architectural innovation and has won several awards gaining international recognition, with the recent Architizer A+ Awards 2017 received in New York.During the design process, David sketched, wrote, read and photographed about the various topics involved into his high-rise proposal. This book is an opportunity to share his references, background, research docu-ments, notes, drawings and working (3d) models. The book was first an exhibition-catalogue, presented last September 2016 in Paris in the framework of a solo show entitled ยซ Gran Mediterraneo - Project Process Pro-gress ยป. It contains archive documents on different topics and texts from invited contributors.Foreword by Architect Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Design modelling sketches by Architect LUC IZRIGraphic design by SARA JASSIM
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Table of contents
- Too Beautiful
- Future Collectivism
- The White City, Curves and Concrete
- High-Rises and Contemporary Architecture in the White City
- Kibbutz Collectivism
- Public Shared Vehicles
- Carchitecture
- Radiant Cities
- Vertical (Car) Park
- Loci Plasticity
- Circular Landscape Urbanism
- Endlesness
- Form Finding
- Digital Translation
- Vertical Kibbutz
- Drawings
- Programme
- Appendix
- Acknowledgements