Forest–City

Forest–City proposes to connect between city and nature, where the city does not threaten the natural space but strengthens it. The project examines the proposal of the “Pi Glilot” site in Jerusalem, which until 2004, housed vacated gas depots and in their place a housing plan was submitted that includes approximately 1900 residential units, commercial spaces, and public spaces. In the adjacent wadi, inter-urban infrastructure was built and its function as open space was lost. The project proposes to view the wadi and forest as an intermediate space—“an island village”—based on the existing infrastructure and emptied fuel tanks, an ecological and communal transformation, and a new meaning for life in the city. The city, in accordance with the concept proposal, is not satisfied with preserving nature but rather enhances its presence in the heart of the urban space as part of the continuity of open spaces in the site.