OFF THE FIELD

The sports field is a charged urban void — a space defined by the rules of the game, structuring movement, interaction, and belonging. Like all voids, it gains meaning through its edges — the thresholds where the intensity of play meets the fabric of everyday life. In the heart of South Jaffa, a neglected strip of land has gradually transformed into a dense cluster of fenced sports fields — a spontaneous urban enclave on the city’s margins. Born from the collapse of formal planning hierarchies, this zone reveals the rich potential of in-between spaces: informal edges that invite reimagination. This project explores the latent power of these thresholds — the seam between the field and the city. Through a series of interventions along these edges, it proposes an “urban laboratory”: a platform for coexistence, experimentation, and layered activity. Reframing the relationship between sport and the city, the project envisions these margins as a framework for multifunctional and inclusive design.