Habitat 67 & Yad Vashem by Moshe safidie

Ar. Moshe Safidie

Moshe Safdie (July,1938) is an Israeli/Candian /American Architect, Urban Designer, Educator, theorist and author. Moshe works are known for their dramatic curves, arrays of geometric patterns, use of windows and key placement of open and green spaces. His writings and designs strikes the need to create meaningful vital and inclusive spaces and enhance community, with special attention to the essence of particular locale, geography and culture. He is self described modernist.

Habitat 67 is the redefinition of everything you expect from an urban residence.

HABITAT 67,MONTREAL CANADA

LOCATION

Habitat 67 is located on the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

It is far from the rest of Montreal's business and neighborhoods, so is private, peaceful and quiet.

Sea Side View From Inside a Flat of the Complex

INSIDE THE COMPLEX There are 158 apartments formed from 354 standard cube

modules combined in a variety of interesting ways. Inside the complex are plastic streets, connecting the apartments

with the elevators and parking lots. Each one apartment has at least one garden terrace on the rooftop

of a unit below. There are 16 different types of "houses". Variations from one-bedroom houses to four-bedroom houses.

Concept and Design

The design consist of 354 cubes of a magnificent grey-beige build up on the other to form 146 residences nested between city and river, between greenery and light. The whole unites in a gigantic sculpture futuristic interiors ,links, pedestrians streets and suspended terraces. Aerial spaces, skylights of different angles, large plazas and monumental elevator pillars, without forgetting the openings, Here and There, that are as many winks and calls to meditation from the environment as well as from the living experiences. The development was designed to integrate the benefits of suburban Homes ,namely Gardens fresh air privacy and multileveled environments with the economics and density of a modern urban apartment building.

Sketched Section

Sketched View

Plan Of Different types of Flats

Plan Axon Unit Types

Structure and MaterialThe Apartment complex is made of prefabricated blocks assembled around three building service cores.An apartment can be constitutes of one or two prefabricated blocks ,depending on their size. Structure Material :Precast concrete Foundation System :Pile foundation Façade Material :Aggregate Façade System :Exposed Structure

Location and Brief Yaw Vashem (Hebrew: םGֵׁוַש is Israel's (יָד

official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.

Established in 1953, Yad Vashem is located on the western slope of Mount Herzl on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, 804 meters (2,638 ft) above sea level and adjacent to the Jerusalem Forest. The memorial consists of a 180-dunam (18.0 ha; 44.5-acre) complex containing the Holocaust History Museum, memorial sites such as the Children's Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance, The Museum of Holocaust Art, sculptures, outdoor commemorative sites such as the Valley of the Communities, a synagogue, a research institute with archives, a library, a publishing house, and an educational center named The International School/Institute for Holocaust Studies.

Design The museum is shaped like a

triangular concrete prism that cuts through the landscape, illuminated by a 200-meter long skylight. Visitors follow a preset route that takes them through underground galleries that branch off from the main hall

Plan of the site

The Hall of Names

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