Cooperative Housing, Tel Aviv 1935

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Architectural Competition - First Prize

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According to the garden city plan of Sir Patrick Geddes, the residential quarters were divided into small plots intended for houses of four to six apartments each. The main objective of this scheme was to replace the existing land subdivision with a cooperative housing estate, consisting of 150 flats. These formed architectural ensembles of continuously staggered layout of building blocks, enclosing large garden patios in their centre. This new, continuous group layout was regarded revolutionary in the late thirties. Nevertheless, the housing cooperatives and the tenants accepted the project, due to the attractiveness of its simple planning and construction principles and the improved climatic orientation, and cross-ventilation. The housing ensemble comprises on the lower levels cooperative shops, kindergartens, reading-rooms and club-rooms, located around the interior courtyard and joining the garden areas.