tower 2.0

Due to the unprecedented population growth in Israel, residential towers have become a necessity – but the typology of the tower, built around a closed and massive core, has hardly evolved. Vertical movement takes place inside closed elevator shafts that transport people to their destination floors while prioritizing efficiency over the human experience. This engenders spaces that are effectively disconnected from the urban environment, upholding privacy as the utmost value. The project proposes to invert this configuration: an open, visible, and communal infrastructure with a system of elevators, bridges, and external passages. This system generates new public spaces that emerge from the existing urban space. Instead of detaching the tower from the urban space, the street is given a new interpretation at height and becomes a vertical public-urban armature. This creates a new form of urbanism that fosters presence, interaction, connectivity and unravels the dichotomy between the ground and the sky. Els Verbakel Erez Ella Ranad Deeb