Cooperative Housing, Tel Aviv 1939

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Architectural Competition - First Prize

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This project, awarded first prize in an architectural competition, was built in the late 'thirties and consists of 150 flats with common services, such as cooperative shops, kindergartens and play areas on the lower ground-floor, adjoining the courtyard gardens. The same method of cancelling the existing parcellation of small building plots was proposed and approved.The project consists of six apartment blocks along the existing residential streets, with east-west orientation, crossventilated by the sea breeze in summer. The southern apartment blocks are raised on pillars, thereby creating shaded open spaces and connecting the existing alley and its sycamore trees with the interior courtyards and gardens. These green courtyards are used to this day by both children and adults, and contribute effectively to the living condition of this architectural ensemble.